S.P. 222 - L.D. 644
An Act to Provide Opportunity for an Increase in Wine-tasting Locations for Farm Wineries
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 28-A MRSA §709, sub-§1, ¶A, as amended by PL 1997, c. 501, §2, is further amended to read:
A. No licensee or employee or agent of a licensee may:
(1) Offer or deliver any free liquor to any person or group of persons;
(2) Deliver more than 2 drinks, or a pitcher of malt liquor or carafe of wine containing more than one liter or 33.8 ounces containing spirits, a carafe containing more than one liter or 33.8 ounces of wine, or any serving or pitcher containing more than one liter or 33.8 ounces of malt liquor, to one person at one time;
(3) Sell, offer to sell or deliver to any person or group of persons an unlimited number of drinks for a fixed price, except at private functions not open to the public;
(4) Encourage or permit, on the licensed premises, any game or contest that involves drinking or the awarding of drinks as prizes; or
(5) Any other practice the specific purpose of which is to encourage customers of the licensee to drink to excess; and
Sec. 2. 28-A MRSA §1355, sub-§3, ¶C, as amended by PL 1997, c. 373, §113, is further amended to read:
C. A holder of a farm winery license, upon application to and approval of the bureau and payment of the license fee fees, may obtain a license licenses for one up to 2 additional location locations other than the winery licensed under this subsection. The holder of the license licenses is not required to conduct any bottling or production of wine at the 2nd additional licensed location locations but may conduct all activities permitted by this section at the winery.
Effective September 18, 1999, unless otherwise indicated.
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