Chapter 339 |
2018 -- S 2740 Enacted 07/10/2018 |
A N A C T |
RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES - RETAIL LICENSES |
Introduced By: Senators Cote, and Picard |
Date Introduced: March 20, 2018 |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
SECTION 1. Section 3-7-15 of the General Laws in Chapter 3-7 entitled "Retail |
Licenses" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
3-7-15. Class G license. |
(a) A Class G retailer's license shall be issued only to any dining car company, sleeping |
car company, parlor car company, and railroad company operating in this state, or any company |
operating passenger-carrying marine vessels in this state, or any airline operating in this state, and |
authorizes the holder of the license to keep for sale and to sell in its dining cars, sleeping cars, |
buffet cars, club cars, lounge cars and any other cars used for the transportation or |
accommodation of passengers, and in or on any passenger-carrying marine vessel, and in any |
airplane, beverages for consumption therein or thereon, but only when actually en route. |
(b) In addition, the holder of the Class G license for a passenger-carrying marine vessel |
may serve alcoholic beverages at retail aboard the vessel during the period thirty (30) minutes |
prior to the scheduled departure and until departure, provided that the local licensing board |
annually consents. |
(c) Each company or airline to which the license is issued shall pay to the department an |
annual fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for the license, and one dollar ($1.00) for each |
duplicate of the license, which fees are paid into the state treasury. |
(d) The license expires one year from its date and is good throughout the state as a state |
license, and only one license is required for all cars or airplanes, but a license issued to any |
company or person operating passenger-carrying marine vessels in this state shall authorize the |
sale of beverages only in the passenger-carrying marine vessel designated and no further license |
shall be required or tax levied by any city or town for the privilege of selling beverages for |
consumption in those cars or on those vessels or in those airplanes. Each licensed dining car |
company, sleeping car company, and railroad car company shall keep a duplicate of the license |
posted in each car where beverages are sold. The department shall issue duplicates of the license |
from time to time upon the request of any licensed company upon the payment of the fee of one |
dollar ($1.00). |
(e) In addition, the holder of the Class G license for a railroad company may serve |
alcoholic beverages at retail aboard its trains or in its controlled station premises, to ticket holding |
passengers, during the period sixty (60) minutes prior to the train's scheduled departure and until |
that departure, provided that the local licensing board annually consents. |
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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