Introduced Version






HOUSE BILL No. 1260

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL



Citations Affected: IC 7.1-3-20-24.

Synopsis: Catering hall alcoholic beverage permits. Provides that a restaurant with an alcoholic beverage permit may sell alcoholic beverages in a facility of the restaurant that is used for catered events and has accommodations for at least 250 individuals without the designation of the facility as a catering hall. (Current law defines accommodations as seating capacity for the serving of food in a room in which alcoholic beverages are sold.)

Effective: Upon passage.





Kuzman




    January 10, 2000, read first time and referred to Committee on Public Policy, Ethics and Veterans Affairs.







Introduced

Second Regular Session 111th General Assembly (2000)


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HOUSE BILL No. 1260



    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning alcoholic beverages.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 7.1-3-20-24; (00)IN1260.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 7.1-3-20-24 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE UPON PASSAGE]: Sec. 24. (a) This section does not affect the requirements necessary to obtain a permit to sell alcoholic beverages on the premises of a licensed premises.
    (b) The commission may designate a licensed permit premises used exclusively for catered events as a catering hall.
    (c) Catering halls designated under this section are not required to be open to the general public. However, if a designated catering hall desires to host an event that is open to the general public, the catering hall shall comply with the notice requirement under IC 7.1-3-9.5-2.
    (d) A licensed premises that is a restaurant may sell alcoholic beverages in a facility of the restaurant that:
        (1) is used for catered events; and
        (2) has accommodations for at least two hundred fifty (250) individuals;
without the designation of the facility as a catering hall.

     (e) The commission shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to implement

this section.

SOURCE: ; (00)IN1260.1.2. -->     SECTION 2. An emergency is declared for this act.