Relating to alcohol; clarifying provisions for public facilities to allow
noncommercial alcohol use without obtaining a license, defining public facility; exempting Minnesota farm wineries from the surety bond requirement, modifying hours of sale, reducing the distilled spirits annual fee, permitting order taking and private business entity or private residence wine tasting, specifying certain restrictions; permitting a city to issue on-sale liquor licenses to a convention center within the city; clarifying the prohibition on the sale of liquor to anyone participating in or attending certain youth amateur athletic events; modifying application requirements for the issuance of on-sale intoxicating liquor licenses to the board of regents for a stadium or arena event at the University of Minnesota by commissioner of public safety; authorizing commissioner of public safety to issue an on-sale liquor license to the Duluth entertainment and convention center authority for beverage sales on the premises of the DECC arena during intercollegiate hockey games; restricting alcoholic beverage sales at TCF bank stadium; allowing exclusive liquor stores to sell multiple use bags designed to carry purchased items; authorizing exclusive liquor stores to sell alcohol control devices to prevent underage drinking in homes; modifying certain restrictions relating to direct wine shipments into the state, modifying penalties; modifying wine tastings provisions; permitting the metropolitan airports commission (MAC) to allow extended hours of sale at on-sale locations within security areas at the Humphrey and Lindbergh airport terminals; authorizing Minneapolis to issue an on-sale intoxicating liquor license to Augsburg college; authorizing the city of Grand Marais to issue additional on-sale intoxicating liquor licenses, on-sale wine licenses and on-sale malt liquor licenses under certain conditions; authorizing the city of Minneapolis to issue an intoxicating liquor license to an establishment at 2124 Como; providing for superseding provisions under certain conditions
(Ch. 120, 2009)