Golf clubs-liquor licenses.

WORKING DRAFT

ORIGINAL HOUSE

BILL

NO.
0077

ENROLLED ACT NO. 29, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

FIFTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2006 BUDGET SESSION

AN ACT relating to alcohol; providing for golf clubs with retail liquor licenses to dispense alcohol anywhere on the premises; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

W.S. 12
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201(a) and (g) is amended to read:

12
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201.

Location, regulation and restrictions as to place of sale; inspections; additional dispensing rooms.

(a)

Except as otherwise provided in this section, t
he principal place in which alcoholic liquor and malt beverages are sold under a license shall be located in one (1) room upon the premises for which the license is issued and as approved by the licensing authority. Upon payment of an additional license fee equal to two-thirds (2/3) of the fee paid for the original license, a licensee may have and maintain one (1) additional dispensing room in the same building under the authority of the original license. Alcoholic beverages secured in the licensed room by a server may be served only in the building in which the licensed room is located and in an immediately adjacent fenced or enclosed area as approved by the local licensing authority. This area shall not be in another building and shall be located on the licensed premises. Only alcoholic and malt beverages, nonalcoholic beverages, food, tobacco and alcoholic liquor and malt beverage promotional sales items sold to the licensee bearing the name and trademark of the alcoholic liquor and malt beverage firm or company whose product the item is advertising, may be sold and served in the licensed room. The licensing authority shall, as often as necessary, inspect the licensed room and adjoining rooms where alcoholic beverages are served to insure that the licensee is in compliance with sanitation and fire hazard requirements and other applicable laws. A licensee may separate the facility for the sale of alcoholic liquor and malt beverages for off-premise consumption from the facility used to serve customers for on-premise consumption without payment of an additional fee. A separated facility for making sales for off-premise consumption shall be located adjoining the facility for making sales for on-premise consumption. The two (2) facilities may be separated by a glass or other suitable partition.

(g)

Any golf club as defined by W.S. 12
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101(a)(iii)(D) which holds a
retail liquor license or a
club limited retail liquor license under W.S. 12
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301 may dispense alcoholic beverages from any location within the boundaries of the golf club premises. The premises shall be a single property within a contiguous boundary upon which the golf club is located and which shall be identified in the license. Subsections (a) through (c) and (e) of this section do not apply to
golf clubs as defined by W.S. 12
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101(a)(iii)(D) which are
holders of a
retail liquor license or
a club limited retail liquor license with respect to alcoholic beverages dispensed within the contiguous boundaries of the golf club premises
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for which

a club limited retail liquor license is issued,
except that any location on the golf club premises where alcoholic beverages are dispensed as approved by the licensing authority shall comply with applicable sanitation and fire hazard requirements and other applicable laws. The licensing authority shall, as often as necessary, inspect the licensed location where alcoholic beverages are dispensed to ensure that the licensee is in compliance with sanitation and fire hazard requirements.

Section 2.
This act is effective immediately upon co
m
pletion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constit
u
tion.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the House.

Chief Clerk

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