07 LC 36
0632S
The
Senate Regulated Industries and Utilities Committee offered the following
substitute to SB 99:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Article 1 of Chapter 9 of Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages by public carriers and
nonprofit organizations, so as to provide for the permitting of limousine
carriers to sell alcoholic beverages; to provide for annual applications and
fees; to provide for certificates for each vehicle authorized; to provide that
an annual permit does not authorize wholesale purchase of alcoholic beverages by
limousine carriers or the purchase or sale of an alcoholic beverage in a
location where such sale is unlawful; to provide for related matters; to repeal
conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Article
1 of Chapter 9 of Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
the sale of alcoholic beverages by public carriers and nonprofit organizations,
is amended by adding a new Code Section 3-9-4 to read as follows:
"3-9-4.
(a)
Upon the filing of an application and payment of a fee of $50.00 by a limousine
carrier that holds a certificate issued in accordance with Article 3 of Chapter
7 of Title 46, the commissioner may issue an annual permit authorizing the
limousine carrier to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption only in the
vehicle supplied by the limousine carrier subject to any law regulating the time
for selling such beverages. In addition to the permit fee, the limousine
carrier shall pay an annual fee of $15.00 for each vehicle to be authorized for
the sale of alcoholic beverages. The commissioner shall issue a certificate for
each vehicle so authorized.
(b)
A permit issued in accordance with this Code section shall not authorize the
wholesale purchase of alcoholic beverages by a limousine carrier and only
authorizes purchase from a retail dealer.
(c)
A permit issued in accordance with this Code section shall not authorize a
limousine carrier to purchase or sell an alcoholic beverage in a location where
the sale of such alcoholic beverage is unlawful.
(d)
Limousine carriers holding permits issued under this Code section shall comply
with the provisions of paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of Code Section
3-3-23."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.