Bill Text: GA HB514 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Distilled spirits; free tastings on premises; authorize

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-01 - Effective Date [HB514 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-HB514-Amended.html

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Senators Balfour of the 9th, Gooch of the 51st, Staton of the 18th, Cowsert of the 46th, Williams of the 19th, Rogers of the 21st and others offered the following amendment:

Amend HB 514 (LC 36 1878) by striking "Chapter 4 of" on line 1; by striking "distilled spirits" on lines 1 and 2 and inserting in lieu thereof "alcoholic beverages"; by inserting "to authorize the breaking and consumption of packages of wine on the premises for the purpose of conducting wine tastings pursuant to a local ordinance;" after "so as" on line 2; by redesignating Section 2 as Section 4; by striking lines 8 and 9 and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

SECTION 1.

Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to alcoholic beverages, is amended by revising Code Section 3-3-26, relating to allowing or permitting of breaking of packages or drinking of contents thereof on premises, as follows:

"3-3-26.

(a) No retail dealer shall knowingly and intentionally allow or permit the breaking of any package or packages containing alcoholic beverages on the premises where sold or allow or permit the drinking of the contents of such package or packages on the premises where sold.

(b) This Code section shall not apply with respect to sales pursuant to a license for consumption on the premises or to any package or packages of wine broken for the purpose of conducting a wine tasting permitted pursuant to local ordinance."

SECTION 2.

Said title is further amended by revising subsection (b) of Code Section 3-4-25, relating to retail dealers to sell only unbroken packages, as follows:

"(b) The license shall not permit the breaking of the package or packages of on the premises where sold and shall not permit the drinking of the contents of the package or packages on the premises where sold; provided, however, that this subsection shall not apply to any package or packages of wine when conducting a wine tasting permitted pursuant to local ordinance."

SECTION 3.

Said title is further amended by inserting at the end of Chapter 4 a new article to read as follows: