(a) Upon applicant’s compliance with this chapter and the rules adopted thereunder, the board shall, where the application is accompanied by a certificate from the clerk or proper officer setting out that the applicant has presented his or her application to the governing authority of the municipality, if the licensed premises is to be located therein, and has obtained its consent and approval issue a restaurant liquor license for a hotel, restaurant, civic center authority, or dinner theater which will authorize the licensee to purchase liquor and wine from the board or as authorized by the board and to purchase table wine and beer, including draft or keg beer, in any county or municipality in which the sale thereof is permitted, from any wholesale licensee of the board and, in that part of the hotel, restaurant, club, or dinner theater set out in the license, to sell liquor and wine, dispensed from containers of any size, and beer, including draft or keg beer, in any county or municipality in which the sale thereof is permitted, to the patrons, guests, or members for on-premises consumption in any part of the civic center or in that part of the hotel, restaurant, or dinner theater habitually used for serving meals to patrons, guests, or members, or other public or private rooms of the building in accordance with this chapter and the rules adopted thereunder, and where a restaurant located in a hotel, but not operated by the owner of the hotel, is licensed to sell alcoholic beverages in the restaurant, it may also sell alcoholic beverages to guests in private rooms in the hotel.
(b) In accordance with Section 28-3A-13.1, a restaurant retail liquor licensee licensed to sell beer, wine, or spirits for on-premises consumption may apply for and be issued a delivery service license that authorizes the licensee to deliver, along with the purchase of a meal, beer, wine, or spirits from the retailer’s premises.