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1996 SESSION

963296817
SENATE BILL NO. 549
Offered January 22, 1996
A BILL to amend and reenact § 4.1-325 of the Code of Virginia, relating to alcoholic beverage control; sale of miniature bottles by mixed beverage licensees.
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Patron-- Saslaw
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Referred to the Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 4.1-325 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 4.1-325. Prohibited acts by mixed beverage licensees; penalty.

A. In addition to § 4.1-324, no mixed beverage licensee nor any agent or employee of such licensee shall:

1. Sell or serve any alcoholic beverage other than as authorized by law;

2. Sell any authorized alcoholic beverage to any person or at any place except as authorized by law;

3. Allow at the place described in his license the consumption of alcoholic beverages in violation of this title;

4. Keep at the place described in his license any alcoholic beverage other than that which he is licensed to sell;

5. Misrepresent the brand of any alcoholic beverage sold or offered for sale;

6. Keep any alcoholic beverage other than in the bottle or container in which it was purchased by him except in a frozen drink dispenser of a type approved by the Board and in the case of wine, in containers of a type approved by the Board pending automatic dispensing and sale of such wine;

7. Refill or partly refill any bottle or container of alcoholic beverage or dilute or otherwise tamper with the contents of any bottle or container of alcoholic beverage;

8. Sell or serve any brand of alcoholic beverage which is not the same as that ordered by the purchaser without first advising such purchaser of the difference;

9. Remove or obliterate any label, mark or stamp affixed to any container of alcoholic beverages offered for sale;

10. Deliver or sell the contents of any container if the label, mark or stamp has been removed or obliterated;

11. Allow any immoral, lewd, obscene, indecent or profane conduct, language, literature, pictures, performance or materials on the licensed premises;

12. Allow any striptease act, or the like on the licensed premises;

13. Allow persons connected with the licensed business to appear nude or partially nude;

14. Consume or allow the consumption by an employee of any alcoholic beverages while on duty;

15. Deliver to a consumer an original bottle larger than 50 mililiters in volume of an alcoholic beverage purchased under such license whether the closure is broken or unbroken except in accordance with § 4.1-210;

16. Be intoxicated while on duty or employ an intoxicated person on the licensed premises;

17. Conceal any sale or consumption of any alcoholic beverages;

18. Fail or refuse to make samples of any alcoholic beverages available to the Board upon request or obstruct special agents of the Board in the discharge of their duties;

19. Store alcoholic beverages purchased under the license in any unauthorized place or remove any such alcoholic beverages from the premises;

20. Allow any person to receive a percentage of the income of the licensed business or have any beneficial interest in such business, except in accordance with Board regulations;

21. Knowingly employ in the licensed business any person who has the general reputation as a prostitute, panderer, habitual law violator, person of ill repute, user or peddler of narcotics, or person who drinks to excess or engages in illegal gambling; or

22. Keep on the licensed premises a slot machine or any prohibited gambling or gaming device, machine or apparatus.

B. Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.