Minnesota Session Laws - 1987, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1987 

                        CHAPTER 249-S.F.No. 1053
           An act relating to alcoholic beverages; providing for 
          the licensing of low-volume brewers; allowing them to 
          be granted an on-sale intoxicating liquor or 
          nonintoxicating malt liquor license; amending 
          Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 340A.301, 
          subdivisions 6 and 7. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 340A.301, 
subdivision 6, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 6.  [FEES.] The annual fees for licenses under this 
section are as follows: 
  (a) Manufacturers (except as provided 
          in clauses (b) and (c))                 $7,500
      Duplicates                                  $3,000
  (b) Manufacturers of wines of not more
      than 25 percent alcohol by volume           $  500
  (c) Brewers other than those described
      in clause (d)                               $1,250
  (d) Brewers who also hold a retail on-sale
      license and who manufacture fewer than
      2,000 barrels of malt liquor in a year, 
      the entire production of which is solely 
      for consumption on tap on the licensed 
      premises                                    $  250
  (e) Wholesalers (except as provided in
          clauses (e), (f), and (g), and (h))     $7,500
      Duplicates                                  $3,000
  (e) (f)  Wholesalers of wines of not more
      than 25 percent alcohol by volume           $  750
  (f) (g) Wholesalers of intoxicating
      malt liquor                                 $  300
      Duplicates                                  $   15
  (g) (h) Wholesalers of nonintoxicating
      malt liquor                                 $   10
    If a business licensed under this section is destroyed, or 
damaged to the extent that it cannot be carried on, or if it 
ceases because of the death or illness of the licensee, the 
commissioner may refund the license fee for the balance of the 
license period to the licensee or to the licensee's estate. 
    Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 340A.301, 
subdivision 7, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 7.  [INTEREST IN OTHER BUSINESS.] Except as provided 
in this subdivision, a holder of a license as a manufacturer, 
brewer, or wholesaler may not have any ownership, in whole or in 
part, in a business holding a retail intoxicating liquor or 
nonintoxicating malt liquor license, but a manufacturer or 
wholesaler of intoxicating liquor may use or have property 
rented for retail intoxicating liquor sales if the manufacturer 
or wholesaler has owned the property continuously since November 
1, 1933. 
    A licensed brewer of malt liquor described in subdivision 
6, clause (d) may be issued an on-sale intoxicating liquor or 
nonintoxicating malt liquor license by a municipality for a 
restaurant operated in or immediately adjacent to the place of 
manufacture. 
    Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final 
enactment. 
    Approved May 26, 1987