Bill Text: FL H0573 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Restaurants Licensed to Sell Wine on the Premises

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-02 - Withdrawn prior to introduction -HJ 52 [H0573 Detail]

Download: Florida-2011-H0573-Introduced.html

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HB 573

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to restaurants licensed to sell wine on
3	the premises; amending s. 564.09, F.S.; revising
4	requirements for a restaurant patron to remove a resealed
5	wine container from a restaurant for off-premise
6	consumption; providing an effective date.
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8	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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10	Section 1.  Section 564.09, Florida Statutes, is amended to
11	read:
12	564.09  Restaurants; off-premises consumption of wine.-
13	Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a restaurant
14	licensed to sell wine on the premises may permit a patron to
15	remove one unsealed bottle of wine for consumption off the
16	premises if the patron has purchased a full course meal
17	consisting of a salad or vegetable, entree, a beverage, and
18	bread and consumed a portion of the bottle of wine with such
19	meal on the restaurant premises. A partially consumed bottle of
20	wine that is to be removed from the premises must be securely
21	resealed by the licensee or its employees before removal from
22	the premises. The partially consumed bottle of wine shall be
23	placed in a bag or other container that is secured in such a
24	manner that it is visibly apparent if the container has been
25	subsequently opened or tampered with, and a dated receipt for
26	the bottle of wine and full course meal shall be provided by the
27	licensee and attached to the container. If transported in a
28	motor vehicle, the container with the resealed bottle of wine
29	must be placed in a locked glove compartment, a locked trunk, or
30	the area behind the last upright seat of a motor vehicle that is
31	not equipped with a trunk.
32	Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.

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