(a) Any person may apply to the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division for a permit for the rectifying, purifying, mixing, blending, or flavoring of spirituous liquors or the bottling, warehousing, or other handling or distribution of rectified distilled spirits.
(b) The application shall be in writing and verified and shall set forth in detail such information concerning the applicant for the permit and the premises to be used therefor as the director shall require.
(c) The application shall be accompanied by a certified check, cash, or postal money order for the amount required by this act for the permit.
(d) If the director shall grant the application, he or she shall issue a permit in such form as shall be determined by rules.
(e) The permit shall contain a description of the premises to be used by the applicant and in form and in substance shall be a permit to the person therein specifically designated to purify, mix, blend, or flavor spirituous or vinous liquors or to bottle, warehouse, or otherwise handle or distribute rectified distilled spirits in the premises therein specifically authorized.
(f) The director shall have absolute discretion as to the location of the premises to be used.
(g) Under such rules as may be adopted by the director, any rectifier may sell, deliver, or transport only:
(1) To wholesalers;
(2) To other rectifiers; and
(3) For the purpose of export out of the state.
(h) For the privilege of rectifying, blending, or flavoring spirituous liquors, there is assessed and there shall be paid an annual permit fee of and by every person engaged therein the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) for each and every rectifying, blending, or flavoring plant.