Bill Text: MI HB4411 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Liquor; licenses; eligibility of certain local governmental units to receive a scheduled event license; modify population threshold. Amends sec. 509 of 1998 PA 58 (MCL 436.1509).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-02-22 - Assigned Pa 37'18 With Immediate Effect [HB4411 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB4411-Chaptered.html
Act No. 37
Public Acts of 2018
Approved by the Governor
February 20, 2018
Filed with the Secretary of State
February 21, 2018
EFFECTIVE DATE: February 21, 2018
STATE OF MICHIGAN
99TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2018
Introduced by Reps. VanderWall, Ellison, Rendon, Hornberger, Cole, Hoitenga, Lower, Lucido, Lasinski, Kivela and LaFave
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4411
AN ACT to amend 1998 PA 58, entitled “An act to create a commission for the control of the alcoholic beverage traffic within this state, and to prescribe its powers, duties, and limitations; to provide for powers and duties for certain state departments and agencies; to impose certain taxes for certain purposes; to provide for the control of the alcoholic liquor traffic within this state and to provide for the power to establish state liquor stores; to prohibit the use of certain devices for the dispensing of alcoholic vapor; to provide for the care and treatment of alcoholics; to provide for the incorporation of farmer cooperative wineries and the granting of certain rights and privileges to those cooperatives; to provide for the licensing and taxation of activities regulated under this act and the disposition of the money received under this act; to prescribe liability for retail licensees under certain circumstances and to require security for that liability; to provide procedures, defenses, and remedies regarding violations of this act; to provide for the enforcement and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; to provide for allocation of certain funds for certain purposes; to provide for the confiscation and disposition of property seized under this act; to provide referenda under certain circumstances; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 509 (MCL 436.1509).
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 509. (1) The commission may issue, without regard to the quota provisions of section 531, licenses to a commission, board, or authority governing or operating a municipal civic center or civic auditorium or to 1 or more of its concessionaires, or to both, if all of the following apply:
(a) The center or auditorium is within a city or township having a population of not less than 5,500.
(b) The center or auditorium is owned and operated as a municipal enterprise.
(c) The legislative body of the municipality first authorizes the operating authority of the civic center or civic auditorium or its concessionaire to apply to the commission for a license.
(2) Licenses issued under this section are not transferable, must not be issued to an educational institution or for a facility operated in connection with an educational institution, and must authorize the sale of alcoholic liquor only in connection with a scheduled event at the licensed premises.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
