Bill Text: CT SB00315 | 2014 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Farmers' Market Wine Sales Permits.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-09 - Referred by Senate to Committee on General Law [SB00315 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2014-SB00315-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Substitute Bill No. 315
February Session, 2014		*_____SB00315ENV___031814____*

AN ACT CONCERNING FARMERS' MARKET WINE SALES PERMITS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 30-37o of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2014):

(a) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection shall issue a farmers' market wine sales permit to a holder of a manufacturer permit for a farm winery upon submission of proof to the commissioner that such holder is in compliance with the requirements of subsection (e) of section 30-16. Such permit shall authorize the sale of wine manufactured from such farm winery during an unlimited number of appearances at a farmers' market [at not more than three farmers' market locations per year] provided such holder: (1) Has an invitation from such farmers' market to sell wine at such farmers' market, (2) [only] sells wine by the bottle and offers tastings at such farmers' markets, and (3) is present, or has an authorized representative present, at the time of sale of any such bottle of wine from such farm winery at such farmers' market. Any such farmers' market wine sales permit shall be valid for a period of one year from the date of issuance. The annual fee for a farmers' market wine sales permit shall be two hundred fifty dollars. There shall be a one-hundred-dollar, nonrefundable filing fee for any such permit.

(b) Any town or municipality may, by ordinance or zoning regulation, prohibit the sale of wine by the holder of a farmers' market wine sales permit at a farmers' market held in such town or municipality.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2014	30-37o

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Joint Favorable Subst.