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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 102
BY SENATOR MORRELL
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. Provides relative to wine and malt beverage permits. (gov
sig)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 26:72(A), (C), and (D) and to enact R.S. 26:72(E), relative to2
alcoholic beverage permits; to provide relative to wine and malt beverage permits3
for restaurants and package houses; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 26:72(A), (C), and (D) are hereby amended and reenacted and R.S.6
26:72(E) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 7
ยง72. Permit for light wine and malt beverages; restaurants and cafeterias or8
package houses 9
A. Before the operator of any restaurant and cafeteria or package house10
where food or drink is legally sold, in which light wine is legally or malt beverages11
are either sold for consumption on the premises in connection with the consumption12
of food or sold in factory-sealed containers for transportation and consumption13
off the premises, shall engages in the business of handling such light wine or malt14
beverages, he shall obtain annually from the commissioner, before commencing15
such business, a permit to conduct such retail business, and shall pay for each permit16
the sum of thirty dollars.17 SB NO. 102
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C. As used in this Section, "light wine" means any effervescent or non-2
effervescent alcoholic beverage, known as still wine, derived from the juice of any3
fruit or synthesis thereof, of an alcoholic content of not more than fourteen six4
percent by volume. Wine is exclusive of all "liquors" whether they be defined5
as intoxicating or spirituous liquors that are produced by distillation.6
D. As used in this Section, "malt beverages" means beverages obtained7
by alcoholic fermentation of an infusion or by a brewing process or concoction8
of barley or other grain, malt, sugars, and hops in water, including among other9
things, ale, beer, stout, porter and the like and containing more than six percent10
alcohol by volume. Malt beverages are exclusive of all "liquors" whether they11
be defined as intoxicating or spirituous liquors that are produced by distillation.12
E. The provisions of this Section shall apply only to restaurants holding "R"13
permits or package houses holding "B" permits as provided in this Title.14
Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not15
signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature16
by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If17
vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become18
effective on the day following such approval.19
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Cathy Wells.
DIGEST
Morrell (SB 102)
Present law requires the operator of any restaurant and cafeteria where food or drink is
legally sold in which light wine is legally sold for consumption on the premises in
connection with such food, to obtain annually from the commissioner, before commencing
such business, a permit to conduct such retail business, and pay $30 for each such permit.
Proposed law removes cafeterias from present law.
Proposed law requires the operator of any restaurant holding "R" permits or package houses
holding "B" permits and where food or drink is legally sold, in which wine or malt beverages
are either sold for consumption on the premises in connection with the consumption of food
or sold in factory-sealed containers for transportation and consumption off the premises, to
obtain annually from the commissioner, before commencing such business, a permit to
conduct such retail business, and pay $30 for each permit. SB NO. 102
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Proposed law removes the definition of "light" wine and defines "wine" as any effervescent
or non-effervescent alcoholic beverage derived from the juice of any fruit or synthesis
thereof, of an alcoholic content of more than six percent by volume. Provides that wine is
exclusive of all "liquors" whether they be defined as intoxicating or spirituous liquors that
are produced by distillation.
Proposed law defines "malt beverages" as beverages obtained by alcoholic fermentation of
an infusion or by a brewing process or concoction of barley or other grain, malt, sugars, and
hops in water, including among other things, ale, beer, stout, porter and the like and
containing more than six percent alcohol by volume. Provides that malt beverages are
exclusive of all "liquors" whether they be defined as intoxicating or spirituous liquors that
are produced by distillation.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Amends R.S. 26:72 (A), (C), (D); Adds R.S. 26:72(E))