Citations Affected:
IC 7.1-3-22-3.
Synopsis: Alcoholic beverage retail permits. Provides that in the case
of a municipal annexation, the alcoholic beverage commission may
only reclassify a retailer's permit in the former unincorporated territory
as a permit inside the municipality if the permittee has actually
conducted a retail business at the site for two consecutive years.
Effective: July 1, 2000.
November 18, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Public Policy.
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
alcoholic beverages.
SECTION 1.
IC 7.1-3-22-3
IS AMENDED TO READ AS
FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2000]: Sec. 3. Retailers' Permits
Limited. (a) The commission may grant only one (1) three-way permit,
and one (1) two-way permit, and one (1) one-way permit in an
incorporated city or town or in an unincorporated town for each one
thousand five hundred (1,500) persons, or fraction thereof, residing
within the incorporated city or town or the unincorporated town. The
commission shall include liquor retailer permits issued to clubs, but not
those issued to fraternal clubs, in its quota computation when it is
considering an application for a new liquor retailer's permit.
(b) This subsection applies when a city or town annexes into the
city or town unincorporated territory where a retailer's permit has
been granted before the annexation. The commission may
reclassify a retailer's permit for a premises in the former
unincorporated territory as a permit for a premises in an
incorporated city or town only if the permittee has actually
conducted a business of selling alcoholic beverages to customers for
consumption on the licensed premises for two (2) consecutive years. The period of two (2) consecutive years may begin either before or after the annexation occurs.