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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2018

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RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES - RETAIL LICENSES

     Introduced By: Representatives Morin, Casey, Phillips, Johnston, and Barros

     Date Introduced: February 09, 2018

     Referred To: House Corporations

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Section 3-7-15 of the General Laws in Chapter 3-7 entitled "Retail

Licenses" is hereby amended to read as follows:

     3-7-15. Class G license.

     (a) A Class G retailer's license shall be issued only to any dining car company, sleeping

car company, parlor car company, and railroad company operating in this state, or any company

operating passenger carrying marine vessels in this state, or any airline operating in this state, and

authorizes the holder of the license to keep for sale and to sell in its dining cars, sleeping cars,

buffet cars, club cars, lounge cars and any other cars used for the transportation or

accommodation of passengers, and in or on any passenger-carrying marine vessel, and in any

airplane, beverages for consumption therein or thereon, but only when actually en route.

     (b) In addition, the holder of the Class G license for a passenger-carrying marine vessel

may serve alcoholic beverages at retail aboard the vessel during the period thirty (30) minutes

prior to the scheduled departure and until departure, provided that the local licensing board

annually consents.

     (c) Each company or airline to which the license is issued shall pay to the department an

annual fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for the license, and one dollar ($1.00) for each

duplicate of the license, which fees are paid into the state treasury.

     (d) The license expires one year from its date and is good throughout the state as a state

license, and only one license is required for all cars or airplanes, but a license issued to any

company or person operating passenger-carrying marine vessels in this state shall authorize the

sale of beverages only in the passenger-carrying marine vessel designated and no further license

shall be required or tax levied by any city or town for the privilege of selling beverages for

consumption in those cars or on those vessels or in those airplanes. Each licensed dining car

company, sleeping car company, and railroad car company shall keep a duplicate of the license

posted in each car where beverages are sold. The department shall issue duplicates of the license

from time to time upon the request of any licensed company upon the payment of the fee of one

dollar ($1.00).

     (e) In addition, the holder of the Class G license for a railroad company may serve

alcoholic beverages at retail aboard its trains or in its controlled station premises, to ticket holding

passengers, during the period thirty (30) minutes prior to the train's scheduled departure and until

that departure, provided that the local licensing board annually consents.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES - RETAIL LICENSES

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     This act would allow railroad companies who hold a Class G license to serve alcohol to

passengers thirty (30) minutes prior to departure.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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