STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2nd Session of the 54th Legislature (2014)

HOUSE BILL 2429	By:	Condit

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to intoxicating liquors; amending 37 O.S. 2011, Section 534, which relates to package stores; requiring package stores to keep certain information on file; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY     37 O.S. 2011, Section 534, is amended to read as follows:
Section 534.  A.  No package store license shall be issued for premises unless said premises are separated from premises on which any other goods, wares or merchandise are sold or services are rendered by nontransparent walls which may be broken by a passageway to which the public is not admitted.  Provided, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take any alcoholic beverage from such store through said passageway for the purpose of selling, reselling, or delivering in connection with the sale of said alcoholic beverage.  Such licenses shall apply only to the premises described in the application.  No person may own any interest in more than one package store.  For the purpose only of establishing whether or not a person owns an interest in more than one package store, any person having a beneficial interest in any package store shall be deemed to be a partner in said package store except that the spouse of any package store license holder or partner shall not be deemed to be a partner or have a beneficial interest in a package store unless his or her name appears on the license.  A beneficial interest shall be any interest that benefits from any sales or profits of said package store.
B.  For purposes of this section, any spouse of a package store license holder shall not hold another license provided for pursuant to the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, except a package store license, beer and wine license, or a mixed beverage license.
C.  Package stores licensed under the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act may sell only alcoholic beverages in retail containers as defined in Section 506 of this title, in the original package for consumption off the premises.  Provided, all alcoholic beverages are to be sold at ordinary room temperature.  All retail sales shall be made on the licensed premises and all deliveries off the premises, at retail, of intoxicating liquor or beer are hereby prohibited.  Each package store shall keep on file the name and driver license number or state identification card number of each individual making a purchase.

SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2014.

54-2-8330	SD	12/23/13