Bill Text: CT SB00082 | 2014 | General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Package Stores And The Sale Of Gift Baskets.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1-1)
Status: (Passed) 2014-05-16 - Signed by the Governor [SB00082 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2014-SB00082-Chaptered.html
AN ACT CONCERNING PACKAGE STORES AND THE SALE OF GIFT BASKETS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 30-20 of the 2014 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
(a) A package store permit shall allow the retail sale of alcoholic liquor not to be consumed on the premises, such sales to be made only in sealed bottles or other containers. The holder of a package store permit may, in accordance with regulations adopted by the Department of Consumer Protection pursuant to the provisions of chapter 54, offer free samples of alcoholic liquor for tasting on the premises, conduct fee-based wine education and tasting classes and demonstrations and conduct tastings or demonstrations provided by a permittee or backer of a package store for a nominal charge to charitable nonprofit organizations. Any offering, tasting, wine education and tasting class or demonstration held on permit premises shall be conducted only during the hours a package store is permitted to sell alcoholic liquor under section 30-91. No tasting of wine on the premises shall be offered from more than ten uncorked bottles at any one time. No store operating under a package store permit shall sell any commodity other than alcoholic liquor except that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, such store may sell (1) cigarettes, (2) publications, (3) bar utensils, which shall include, but need not be limited to, corkscrews, beverage strainers, stirrers or other similar items used to consume or related to the consumption of alcoholic liquor, (4) gift packages of alcoholic liquor shipped into the state by a manufacturer or out-of-state shipper, which may include a nonalcoholic item in the gift package that may be any item, except food or tobacco products, provided the dollar value of the nonalcoholic items does not exceed the dollar value of the alcoholic items of the package, (5) complementary fresh fruits used in the preparation of mixed alcoholic beverages, (6) cheese or crackers, or both, olives, (7) nonalcoholic beverages, (8) concentrates used in the preparation of mixed alcoholic beverages, (9) beer and wine-making kits and products related to beer and wine-making kits, (10) ice in any form, (11) articles of clothing imprinted with advertising related to the alcoholic liquor industry, (12) gift baskets or other containers of alcoholic liquor, (13) multiple packages of alcoholic liquors, as defined in subdivision (3) of section 30-1, provided in all such cases the minimum retail selling price for such alcoholic liquor shall apply, [and] (14) lottery tickets authorized by the Department of Consumer Protection, if licensed as an agent to sell such tickets by said department, and (15) gift baskets containing only containers of alcoholic liquor and commodities authorized for sale under subdivisions (1) to (14), inclusive, of this subsection. A package store permit shall also allow the taking and transmitting of orders for delivery of such merchandise in other states. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a package store permit shall allow the participation in any lottery ticket promotion or giveaway sponsored by the Department of Consumer Protection. The annual fee for a package store permit shall be five hundred thirty-five dollars.