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:

{ADD 3-7-15. Class G license. -- ADD} A retailer's license, Class G, 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 shall authorize the holder thereof 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.

{ADD 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. ADD}

Each company or airline to which the license shall be issued shall pay to the department an annual fee of one hundred dollars ($100) for the license, and one dollar ($1.00) for each duplicate thereof, which fees shall be paid into the state treasury.

The license shall expire one (1) year from its date and be good throughout the state as a state license, and only one license shall be 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 therein designated; 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 the 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).

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.