Bill Text: WV SB2020 | 2021 | 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Altering time frame retail liquor licensees may sell liquors
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-07-13 - Chapter 1, Acts, 2nd Extraordinary Session, 2021 [SB2020 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2021-SB2020-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2021 second Extraordinary session
Introduced
Senate Bill 2020
By Senators Blair (Mr.
President) and Baldwin
(By Request of the Executive)
[Introduced June 24, 2021]
A BILL to amend and reenact §60-3A-18 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to altering the time frame which retail liquor licensees may sell liquors.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 3A. SALES BY RETAIL LIQUOR LICENSEES.
§60-3A-18. Days and hours retail licensees may sell liquor.
Retail licensees may not sell liquor on Easter Sunday,
Christmas Day or before 1 p.m. on other Sundays, except a Sunday on which
Christmas falls or between the hours of 12:00 a.m. and 8:00 6:00
a.m., except that wine and fortified wines may be sold on those days and at
such times as authorized in §60-8-34 of this code. Any county may conduct a
county option election pursuant to §7-1-3ss of this code to delay the sales of
alcoholic liquors until 1:00 p.m. on Sundays.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to make uniform the time at which nonintoxicating beer, wine, and liquors may be sold in this state.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
