Bill Text: MI HB4711 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Liquor; beer; number of locations a brewer and micro brewer may sell its beer for on-premises consumption; modify. Amends sec. 411 of 1998 PA 58 (MCL 436.1411). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4709'13, HB 4710'13, SB 0504'13, SB 0505'13, SB 0506'13, SB 0507'13, SB 0650'13
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2014-03-26 - Assigned Pa 44'14 With Immediate Effect [HB4711 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB4711-Chaptered.html
Act No. 44
Public Acts of 2014
Approved by the Governor
March 25, 2014
Filed with the Secretary of State
March 25, 2014
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 25, 2014
STATE OF MICHIGAN
97TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2014
Introduced by Reps. Schor, Pscholka, Heise, Haines, Howrylak, Switalski, Geiss, Rendon, Irwin, VerHeulen and Olumba
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4711
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 411 (MCL 436.1411), as amended by 2011 PA 298.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 411. (1) A brewer that is not licensed as a micro brewer may sell its beer for on-premises consumption at not more than 2 locations in this state that are on any of its licensed brewery premises where the brewer engages in the production of beer. A licensed micro brewer that produces in total fewer than 30,000 barrels of beer per year may sell its beer for on-premises consumption at any location in this state that is on any of its licensed brewery premises where the micro brewer engages in the production of beer. A licensed micro brewer that produces in total 30,000 barrels of beer or more per year may sell its beer for on-premises consumption at not more than 3 locations in this state that are on any of its licensed brewery premises where the micro brewer engages in the production of beer.
(2) Subject to the limitations in subsection (1), if a brewer or micro brewer has more than 1 licensed brewery premises, that brewer or micro brewer may sell for on-premises consumption beer that it has produced at 1 licensed brewery premises at any of its other licensed brewery premises.
(3) As used in this section, “engages in the production of beer” means the full and complete brewing process and not just a portion of the brewing process.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 97th Legislature are enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. 504.
(b) Senate Bill No. 505.
(c) Senate Bill No. 506.
(d) Senate Bill No. 507.
(e) Senate Bill No. 650.
(f) House Bill No. 4709.
(g) House Bill No. 4710.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
