HB620

ENROLLED, An Act,

Relating to the City of Jasper in Walker County; to apply the entertainment district designation for retail alcoholic beverage licenses available in the City of Jasper to be issued by the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board permitting and regulating the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages within entertainment districts established by the municipality; and to authorize the governing body of the City of Jasper to establish entertainment districts with restrictions as to number and size.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:

Section 1. The provisions of this act shall only apply to the City of Jasper, Alabama.

Section 2. (a) Upon compliance of the applicant with the provisions of Chapter 3A of Title 28 of the Code of Alabama 1975, and the regulations made pursuant to that chapter which are not in conflict with this act, the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board may issue an entertainment district designation for any retail license authorized in Chapter 3A which allows the licensee to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on the licensed premises and which licensed premises are located in an entertainment district established as provided in Section 3. A licensee who receives an entertainment district designation for an on-premises retail license shall comply with all laws, rules, and regulations which govern its license type, except that the patrons, guests, or members of that licensee may exit that licensed premises with open containers of alcoholic beverages and consume alcoholic beverages anywhere within the confines of the entertainment district, which shall be permitted, but may not enter another licensed premises with open containers or closed containers of alcoholic beverages acquired elsewhere.

(b) The permission granted by subsection (a) permitting the consumption of alcoholic beverages anywhere within the confines of the entertainment district shall not extend the confines of the licensed premises.

Section 3. The governing body of the City of Jasper may establish up to two entertainment districts within its corporate limits, each of which shall have not fewer than four licensees holding a retail liquor license in that area, and each district may not exceed one-half mile by one-half mile in area, but may be irregularly shaped.

Section 4. All laws or parts of laws which conflict with this act are repealed. All general, local, and special laws or parts of such laws insofar as they designate or restrict the boundaries, size, or area of such entertainment districts are repealed.

Section 5. This act shall become effective immediately following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.

Walker County

Jasper

Alcoholic Beverages

Entertainment

Alcoholic Beverage Control Board