SENATE BILL No. 199

 

 

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.