As used in the ABC Act, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

1. (1) "Alcoholic liquors" or "alcoholic beverages" means any spirituous malt, vinous, fermented, brewed (whether lager or rice beer), or other liquors or a compound or mixture thereof by whatever name called or known which contains alcohol and is used as a beverage, but does not include:

   1. (a) wine when manufactured or made for home consumption and which is not sold by the maker thereof or by another person; or
   2. (b) a beverage declared by statute to be nonalcoholic or nonintoxicating;
2. (2) "Bona fide engaged primarily and substantially in the preparation and serving of meals" means a business which has been issued a Class A restaurant license prior to issuance of a license under Article 5 of this chapter, and in addition provides facilities for seating not less than forty persons simultaneously at tables for the service of meals.
3. (3) "Manufacturer" means a person operating a plant or place of business in this State for distilling, rectifying, brewing, fermenting, blending, or bottling alcoholic liquors.
4. (4) "Furnishing lodging" means those businesses which rent accommodations for lodging to the public on a regular basis consisting of not less than twenty rooms.
5. (5) "Minibottle" means a sealed container of two ounces or less of alcoholic liquor.
6. (6) "Nonprofit organization" means an organization not open to the general public, but with a limited membership and established for social, benevolent, patriotic, recreational, or fraternal purposes.
7. (7) "Producer", as used in the ABC Act, means a manufacturer, distiller, rectifier, blender, or bottler of alcoholic liquors and includes an importer of alcoholic liquors engaged in importing alcoholic liquors into the United States.
8. (8) "Producer representative" means a person who is a citizen of this State, who maintains his principal place of abode in this State, and who is registered with the department pursuant to Article 7 of this chapter as the South Carolina representative of a registered producer.
9. (9) "Registered producer" means a producer who is registered with the department pursuant to Article 7 of this chapter.
10. (10) "Retail dealer" means a holder of a license issued under the provisions of Article 3 of this chapter, other than a manufacturer or wholesaler.
11. (11) "Wholesaler" means a person who purchases, acquires, or imports from outside this State or who purchases or acquires from a manufacturer in the State alcoholic liquors for resale.