Concerning alcoholic beverage control, establishing a charity beer, spirits, and wine event permit, providing for alcoholic beverages sales, and including effective date provisions

This bill authorizes a nonprofit entity to conduct a charity beer, spirits, and wine event.173B provides for the issuance of a charity beer, spirits, and wine event permit to an authorized nonprofit entity that allows the consumption of beer, spirits, and wine at a charity beer, spirits, and wine event and allows for including the cost of the beer, spirits, and wine as part of an admission fee to the event. The bill requires the nonprofit entity to specify the date and time and the premises where the charity beer, spirits, and wine event is to be conducted. The bill provides that the completed application shall also specify that the premises has a valid license or permit authorizing the consumption of beer, spirits, or wine on the premises and that the authorized nonprofit entity has entered into an agreement with the licensee or permittee of the licensed premises allowing the charity beer, spirits, and wine event to be conducted on the premises and providing for reimbursing the licensee or permittee for the beer, spirits, and wine consumed at the event. The bill requires proceeds from the event to be expended for charitable purposes and allows only two charity beer, spirits, and wine event permits during a calendar year with each charity beer, spirits, and wine event permit valid for a period not to exceed consecutive hours. The bill requires the authorized nonprofit entity to obtain the beer, spirits, and wine to be sold for consumption on the premises of the charity beer, spirits, and wine event from the applicable licensee or permittee for the premises. The bill also provides that any violation of the requirements of Code chapter 123 or the rules adopted pursuant shall subject the permit holder to the general penalties provided in Code chapter 123 and shall constitute grounds for imposition of a civil penalty, suspension of the permit, or revocation of the permit.