June 22, 2005, Introduced by Senators JELINEK, McMANUS, KUIPERS, JACOBS and HAMMERSTROM and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.
A bill to amend 1998 PA 58, entitled
"Michigan liquor control code of 1998,"
by amending section 107 (MCL 436.1107), as amended by 2001 PA 223.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 107. (1) "Cash" means money in hand, bank notes, demand
deposits at a bank, or legal tender, which a creditor must accept
according to law. Cash does not include call loans, postdated
checks, or promissory notes.
(2) "Class C license" means a place licensed to sell at retail
beer, wine, mixed spirit drink, and spirits for consumption on the
premises.
(3) "Class G-1 license" means a place licensed to sell at
retail beer, wine, mixed spirit drink, and spirits for consumption
on the premises at a golf course having at least 18 holes that
measure at least 5,000 yards and which license is issued only to a
facility which permits member access by means of payments that
include annual paid membership fees.
(4) "Class G-2 license" means a place licensed to sell at
retail beer and wine for consumption on the premises at a golf
course having at least 18 holes that measure at least 5,000 yards
and which license is issued only to a facility which permits member
access by means of payments that include annual paid membership
fees.
(5) "Club" means a nonprofit association, whether incorporated
or unincorporated, organized for the promotion of some common
purpose, the object of which is owning, hiring, or leasing a
building, or space in a building, of an extent and character as in
the judgment of the commission may be suitable and adequate for the
reasonable and comfortable use and accommodation of its members and
their guests, but does not include an association organized for a
commercial or business purpose.
(6) "Commission" means the liquor control commission provided
for and created in section 209.
(7) "Computer" means any connected, directly interoperable or
interactive device, equipment, or facility that uses a computer
program or other instructions to perform specific operations
including logical, arithmetic, or memory functions with or on
computer data or a computer program and that can store, retrieve,
alter, or communicate the results of the operations to a person,
computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network.
(8) "Computer network" means the interconnection of hardwire
or wireless communication lines with a computer through remote
terminals, or a complex consisting of 2 or more interconnected
computers.
(9) "Computer program" means a series of internal or external
instructions communicated in a form acceptable to a computer that
directs the functioning of a computer, computer system, or computer
network in a manner designed to provide or produce products or
results from the computer, computer system, or computer network.
(10) "Computer system" means a set of related, connected or
unconnected, computer equipment, devices, software, or hardware.
(11) (7)
"Church" means an entire house or
structure set
apart primarily for use for purposes of public worship, and which
is tax exempt under the laws of this state, and in which religious
services are held and with which a clergyman is associated, and the
entire structure of which is kept for that use and not put to any
other use inconsistent with that use.
(12) "Device" includes, but is not limited to, an electronic,
magnetic, electrochemical, biochemical, hydraulic, optical, or
organic object that performs input, output, or storage functions by
the manipulation of electronic, magnetic, or other impulses.
(13) "Diligent inquiry" means a diligent good faith effort to
determine the age of a person, which includes at least an
examination of an official Michigan operator's or chauffeur's
license, an official Michigan personal identification card, or any
other bona fide picture identification that establishes the
identity and age of the person.
(14) "Direct shipper" means a person who engages in the sale,
delivery, or importation of wine to a retail customer through the
use of any mail order, internet, telephone, computer, device, or
other electronic means.
(15) (8)
"Distiller" means any person licensed to
manufacture and sell spirits or alcohol, or both, of any kind.
(16) (9)
"Hotel" means a building or group of
buildings
located on the same or adjoining pieces of real property, which
provide lodging to travelers and temporary residents and which may
also provide food service and other goods and services to
registered guests and to the public.
(17) (10)
"Class A hotel" means a hotel licensed by
the
commission to sell beer and wine for consumption on the premises
only, which provides for the rental of, and maintains the
availability for rental of, not less than 25 bedrooms if located in
a local governmental unit with a population of less than 175,000 or
not less than 50 bedrooms if located in a local governmental unit
with a population of 175,000 or more.
(18) (11)
"Class B hotel" means a hotel licensed by
the
commission to sell beer, wine, mixed spirit drink, and spirits for
consumption on the premises only, which provides for the rental of,
and maintains the availability for rental of, not less than 25
bedrooms if located in a local governmental unit with a population
of less than 175,000 or not less than 50 bedrooms if located in a
local governmental unit with a population of 175,000 or more.
(19) (12)
"License" means a contract between the
commission
and the licensee granting authority to that licensee to manufacture
and sell, or sell, or warehouse alcoholic liquor in the manner
provided by this act.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless all of the following bills of the 93rd Legislature are
enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. 625.
(b) Senate Bill No. 627.
(c) Senate Bill No. 626.