Minnesota Session Laws - 1996, Regular Session

  
    
KEY: stricken = old language to be removed
     underscored = new language to be added
    
                            CHAPTER 323-H.F.No. 2788 
                  An act relating to liquor; modifying restrictions for 
                  temporary on-sale licenses; discontinuing the use of 
                  the term "nonintoxicating liquor"; amending Minnesota 
                  Statutes 1994, section 340A.411, subdivision 1, and by 
                  adding a subdivision; Minnesota Statutes 1995 
                  Supplement, section 340A.410, subdivision 10.  
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1995 Supplement, section 
        340A.410, subdivision 10, is amended to read: 
           Subd. 10.  [TEMPORARY LICENSES; RESTRICTION ON NUMBER 
        RESTRICTIONS.] (a) A municipality may not issue more than 
        three four-day, four three-day, or six two-day temporary 
        licenses, in any combination not to exceed 12 days per year, 
        under section 340A.404, subdivision 10, for the sale of 
        alcoholic beverages to any one organization or registered 
        political committee, or for any one location, within a 12-month 
        period. 
           (b) A municipality may not issue more than one temporary 
        license under section 340A.404, subdivision 10, for the sale of 
        alcoholic beverages to any one organization or registered 
        political committee, or for any one location, within any 30-day 
        period. 
           Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 340A.411, 
        subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
           Subdivision 1.  [ON-SALE LICENSES.] On-sale nonintoxicating 
        3.2 percent malt liquor licenses may only be issued to 
        drugstores, restaurants, hotels, clubs, bowling centers, and 
        establishments used exclusively for the sale of 3.2 percent malt 
        liquor with the incidental sale of tobacco and soft drinks. 
           Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 340A.411, is 
        amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
           Subd. 3.  [TERMINOLOGY.] A political subdivision may not 
        issue a 3.2 percent malt liquor license that includes the term 
        "nonintoxicating liquor." 
           Sec. 4.  [INSTRUCTION TO REVISOR.] 
           The revisor of statutes shall change the words 
        "nonintoxicating liquor" wherever they appear in Minnesota 
        Statutes and Minnesota Rules to "3.2 percent malt liquor." 
           Presented to the governor March 14, 1996 
           Signed by the governor March 15, 1996, 11:15 a.m.