Bill Text: FL S0462 | 2011 | Regular Session | Enrolled


Bill Title: Beverage Law

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-04 - Ordered enrolled -SJ 851 [S0462 Detail]

Download: Florida-2011-S0462-Enrolled.html
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    2         An act relating to the Beverage Law; amending ss.
    3         561.15 and 561.17, F.S.; exempting performance arts
    4         centers from obtaining approval from the Division of
    5         Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of the Department of
    6         Business and Professional Regulation of volunteer
    7         officers or directors of the performing arts center or
    8         of changes in such positions; providing an effective
    9         date.
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   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 561.15, Florida
   14  Statutes, is amended to read:
   15         561.15 Licenses; qualifications required.—
   16         (3) The division may suspend or revoke the license under
   17  the Beverage Law of, or may refuse to issue a license under the
   18  Beverage Law to:
   19         (a) Any person, firm, or corporation the license of which
   20  under the Beverage Law has been revoked or has been abandoned
   21  after written notice that revocation or suspension proceedings
   22  had been or would be brought against the license;
   23         (b) Any corporation if an officer, director, or person
   24  interested directly or indirectly in the corporation has had her
   25  or his license under the Beverage Law revoked or has abandoned
   26  her or his license after written notice that revocation or
   27  suspension proceedings had been or would be brought against her
   28  or his license; or
   29         (c) Any person who is or has been an officer of a
   30  corporation, or who was interested directly or indirectly in a
   31  corporation, the license of which has been revoked or abandoned
   32  after written notice that revocation or suspension proceedings
   33  had been or would be brought against the license.
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   35  Any license issued to a person, firm, or corporation that would
   36  not qualify for the issuance of a new license or the transfer of
   37  an existing license may be revoked by the division. However, any
   38  company regularly traded on a national securities exchange and
   39  not over the counter; any insurer, as defined in the Florida
   40  Insurance Code; or any bank or savings and loan association
   41  chartered by this state, another state, or the United States
   42  which has an interest, directly or indirectly, in an alcoholic
   43  beverage license shall not be required to obtain division
   44  approval of its officers, directors, or stockholders or any
   45  change of such positions or interests. Any such company,
   46  insurer, bank, or savings and loan association which has a
   47  direct or indirect interest or which has an ownership interest
   48  in the business sought to be licensed, but which does not
   49  operate that business, may elect to place the license solely in
   50  the name of the operator. The operator’s license application
   51  shall list the direct, indirect, or ownership interest and the
   52  names of the officers, directors, stockholders, or partners of
   53  such company, insurer, bank, or association. A shopping center
   54  with five or more stores, one or more of which has an alcoholic
   55  beverage license and is required under a lease common to all
   56  shopping center tenants to pay no more than 10 percent of the
   57  gross proceeds of the business holding the license to the
   58  shopping center, shall not be considered as having an interest,
   59  directly or indirectly, in the license. A performing arts
   60  center, as defined in s. 561.01, which has an interest, directly
   61  or indirectly, in an alcoholic beverage license is not required
   62  to obtain division approval of its volunteer officers or
   63  directors or of any change in such positions or interests.
   64         Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 561.17, Florida
   65  Statutes, is amended to read:
   66         561.17 License and registration applications; approved
   67  person.—
   68         (1) Any person, before engaging in the business of
   69  manufacturing, bottling, distributing, selling, or in any way
   70  dealing in alcoholic beverages, shall file, with the district
   71  licensing personnel of the district of the division in which the
   72  place of business for which a license is sought is located, a
   73  sworn application in the format prescribed by the division. The
   74  applicant must be a legal or business entity, person, or persons
   75  and must include all persons, officers, shareholders, and
   76  directors of such legal or business entity that have a direct or
   77  indirect interest in the business seeking to be licensed under
   78  this part. However, the applicant does not include any person
   79  that derives revenue from the license solely through a
   80  contractual relationship with the licensee, the substance of
   81  which contractual relationship is not related to the control of
   82  the sale of alcoholic beverages. Before any application is
   83  approved, the division may require the applicant to file a set
   84  of fingerprints on regular United States Department of Justice
   85  forms for herself or himself and for any person or persons
   86  interested directly or indirectly with the applicant in the
   87  business for which the license is being sought, when required by
   88  the division. If the applicant or any person who is interested
   89  with the applicant either directly or indirectly in the business
   90  or who has a security interest in the license being sought or
   91  has a right to a percentage payment from the proceeds of the
   92  business, either by lease or otherwise, is not qualified, the
   93  division shall deny the application. However, any company
   94  regularly traded on a national securities exchange and not over
   95  the counter; any insurer, as defined in the Florida Insurance
   96  Code; or any bank or savings and loan association chartered by
   97  this state, another state, or the United States which has an
   98  interest, directly or indirectly, in an alcoholic beverage
   99  license is not required to obtain the division’s approval of its
  100  officers, directors, or stockholders or any change of such
  101  positions or interests. A shopping center with five or more
  102  stores, one or more of which has an alcoholic beverage license
  103  and is required under a lease common to all shopping center
  104  tenants to pay no more than 10 percent of the gross proceeds of
  105  the business holding the license to the shopping center, is not
  106  considered as having an interest, directly or indirectly, in the
  107  license. A performing arts center, as defined in s. 561.01,
  108  which has an interest, directly or indirectly, in an alcoholic
  109  beverage license is not required to obtain division approval of
  110  its volunteer officers or directors or of any change in such
  111  positions or interests.
  112         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.

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