Bill Text: MI SB0432 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Liquor; licenses; license to serve alcohol on certain premises of Wayne state university; allow under certain circumstances. Amends sec. 513 of 1998 PA 58 (MCL 436.1513).
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2009-06-23 - Assigned Pa 0048'09 With Immediate Effect [SB0432 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2009-SB0432-Chaptered.html
Act No. 48
Public Acts of 2009
Approved by the Governor
June 18, 2009
Filed with the Secretary of State
June 18, 2009
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 18, 2009
STATE OF MICHIGAN
95TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2009
Introduced by Senators Clarke, Patterson, Kuipers, Thomas, Scott and Clark-Coleman
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 432
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 513 (MCL 436.1513), as amended by 2007 PA 11.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 513. (1) The commission may issue to the governing board of a college or university, without regard to the quota provisions of section 531, a license to sell alcoholic liquor for consumption on the premises of a conference center operated by the governing board. Licenses granted under this subsection may be used only for the sale of alcoholic liquor at regularly scheduled conference center activities. The sale of alcoholic liquor to unscheduled patrons or at unscheduled events is prohibited under this subsection.
(2) Subject to the provisions of section 531, the commission may issue a license to a private entity for the sale of alcoholic liquor for consumption on the premises of a hotel located on land owned by central Michigan university if both of the following circumstances exist:
(a) The land is leased or subleased at fair market value to a private entity that owns, leases, or subleases the hotel building and its fixtures.
(b) The hotel and land are located within an industrial, research, or commercial development park established by the governing board of central Michigan university.
(3) Subject to the provisions of section 531, the commission may issue a license to a private entity for the sale of alcoholic liquor for consumption on the licensed premises of a restaurant located on land owned by Wayne state university if both of the following circumstances exist:
(a) The land is leased or subleased at fair market value to a private entity that owns, leases, or subleases the licensed premises for the operation of a restaurant.
(b) The restaurant is located within an area designated for industrial, research, or commercial development by the governing board of Wayne state university.
(4) Licenses issued pursuant to this section are nontransferable, and the licensee shall pay the fee required under section 525.
(5) As used in this section:
(a) “College” or “university” means a 2-year or 4-year state supported institution of higher education.
(b) “Conference center” means a building or portion of a building, other than a student residence hall or student center, which has meeting rooms, banquet areas, social halls, overnight accommodations, and related facilities for special activities scheduled by the college or university, which in the judgment of the commission, has been regularly used for conferences and lodging of guests. The convocation center and the corporate education center at eastern Michigan university, the Kirkhof and Eberhard centers at Grand Valley state university, the Bernhard center at western Michigan university, the Wadsworth center at Michigan technological university, the West complex at Saginaw Valley state university, the conference center at Big Rapids, the applied technology center at Grand Rapids and the FSU-GR conference center of Ferris state university, Grand Rapids junior college, the Waterman campus center at Schoolcraft college, the Mendel center at Lake Michigan community college, the McGregor memorial conference center at Wayne state university, the Michigan state university management educational center, the Superior dome at northern Michigan university, the Walker Cisler center at Lake Superior state university, the Marie Prahl college center at Mott community college, the John T. Parsons and Frank L. Stulen Michigan technical education center, the Gerald and Frances Oleson center, the Dennos museum center, and the Great Lakes campus at northwestern Michigan college, the farmhouse at Delta college, the Oakland community college culinary studies institute, and the performing arts and cultural center complex at Macomb community college are considered conference centers for the purposes of this act.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
