SB-0199, As Passed Senate, May 5, 2005
HOUSE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 199
A bill to amend 1998 PA 58, entitled
"Michigan liquor control code of 1998,"
by amending section 1021 (MCL 436.2021), as amended by 2002 PA 725.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
1021. (1) A regulation shall not be made requiring the
purchase
The commission shall not
require a licensee to sell or
serving
of serve food with the purchase to a purchaser of
alcoholic liquor. The commission shall not require a class A hotel
or class B hotel to provide food services to registered guests or
to the public.
(2) Alcoholic
Except as otherwise provided
in subsection
(3),
a purchaser shall not remove alcoholic liquor
sold by vendors
a
vendor for consumption on the premises shall
not be removed
from those premises.
(3) A vendor licensed to sell wine on the premises may allow
an individual who has purchased a meal and who has purchased and
partially consumed a bottle of wine with the meal, to remove the
partially consumed bottle from the premises upon departure. This
subsection does not allow the removal of any additional unopened
bottles of wine unless the vendor is licensed as a specially
designated merchant. The licensee or the licensee's clerk, agent,
or employee shall reinsert a cork so that the top of the cork is
level with the lip of the bottle. The transportation or possession
of the partially consumed bottle of wine shall be in compliance
with section 624a of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL
257.624a.
(4) (3) Nothing in this This
act and rules promulgated under
this
act shall do
not prevent a class A or B hotel
designed to
attract and accommodate tourists and visitors in a resort area from
allowing its invitees or guests to possess or consume, or both, on
or about its premises, alcoholic liquor purchased by the invitee or
guest from an off-premises retailer, and does not prevent a guest
or invitee from entering and exiting the licensed premises with
alcoholic liquor purchased from an off-premises retailer.