February 15, 2005, Introduced by Senators GILBERT, HAMMERSTROM, SANBORN, McMANUS, JELINEK, GOSCHKA, BISHOP, GEORGE, BARCIA and SWITALSKI and referred to the Committee on Economic Development, Small Business and Regulatory Reform.
A bill to amend 1998 PA 58, entitled
"Michigan liquor control code of 1998,"
by amending section 1021 (MCL 436.2021), as amended by 2002 PA 725.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
1021. (1) A regulation shall not be made requiring the
The
commission shall not require a licensee to purchase or serving
of
serve food with the purchase to a purchaser of alcoholic
liquor. The commission shall not require a class A hotel or class B
hotel to provide food services to registered guests or to the
public.
(2) Alcoholic
Except as otherwise provided
in subsection
(3),
a purchaser shall not remove alcoholic liquor
sold by vendors
a
vendor for consumption on the premises shall
not be removed
from those premises.
(3) A vendor licensed to sell wine on the premises may allow
an individual who has purchased a meal and who has purchased and
partially consumed a bottle of table wine with the meal, to remove
the partially consumed bottle from the premises upon departure.
This subsection does not allow the removal of any additional
unopened bottles of wine.
(4) (3) Nothing in this This
act and rules promulgated under
this
act shall do
not prevent a class A or B hotel
designed to
attract and accommodate tourists and visitors in a resort area from
allowing its invitees or guests to possess or consume, or both, on
or about its premises, alcoholic liquor purchased by the invitee or
guest from an off-premises retailer, and does not prevent a guest
or invitee from entering and exiting the licensed premises with
alcoholic liquor purchased from an off-premises retailer.