1. Incorporated civic organizations. An incorporated civic organization may obtain up to 5 licenses per year to sell spirits, wine and malt liquor for on-premises consumption as provided in section 1071. The fee for each license is $50.
A. [PL 2021, c. 658, §155 (RP).]
B. [PL 1987, c. 623, §12 (RP).]

[PL 2021, c. 658, §155 (AMD).]

Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 1012

  • Agency liquor store: means a person that is licensed by the bureau to sell spirits, wine and malt liquor to be consumed off the premises. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Auditorium: means a commercially operated indoor or outdoor facility designed or used for the gathering of an audience for speeches and live performances of theater, music, dance or other performing arts that charges a fee and has adequate facilities for the sale and consumption of liquor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Bed and breakfast: means a place that advertises itself as a bed and breakfast where the public for a fee may obtain overnight accommodations that include a sleeping room or rooms and at least one meal per day. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Bureau: means the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Catering: means service of liquor with or without food by a person to groups at a prearranged function. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Civic auditorium: means a municipal, county or state or a quasi-municipal, quasi-county or quasi-state owned or operated auditorium or civic center. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Class A lounge: means a place where liquor is sold at tables, booths and counters. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Class A restaurant: means a place that is regularly used for the purpose of providing full meals for the public on the premises, that is equipped with a separate and complete kitchen and that maintains adequate dining room equipment and capacity for preparing and serving full meals upon the premises. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Club: means a group of individuals incorporated and operating in a bona fide manner solely for purposes of recreational, social, patriotic or fraternal nature and not for pecuniary gain. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Common consumption area: means an area designated as a common area within an entertainment district in which customers of more than one common consumption area licensee are permitted to consume spirits, wine and malt liquor sold by the common consumption area licensees. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Disc golf course: means a commercially operated facility that offers disc golfing facilities to the public for a fee and that has adequate facilities for the sale and consumption of liquor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Distillery: means a person that engages in the activities under either paragraph A or B, or both:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Entertainment district: means an area that is located within a municipality that is established by ordinance of the municipal legislative body in accordance with section 221. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Golf course: means a commercially operated facility, whether publicly or privately owned, that offers golfing facilities to the public for a fee, including a regulation-size golf course of no fewer than 9 holes and an average total of not less than 1,200 yards per 9 holes, that has a value of not less than $100,000 and that has adequate facilities for the sale and consumption of liquor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Hotel: means a place where the public obtains sleeping accommodations for consideration and where food is offered for sale to the public, whether or not under one roof. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Incorporated civic organization: means an organization incorporated as a corporation without stock under Title 13, chapter 81 or Title 13?B with a civic or charitable purpose, including but not limited to relief of poverty, advancement of education and the arts, promotion of social health, safety and welfare, fostering community and economic development, protection against animal cruelty, combating community deterioration, lessening the burdens of government and providing assistance to the underprivileged and distressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Licensee: includes , but is not limited to, agency liquor stores and certificate of approval holders. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Liquor: means spirits, wine, malt liquor or hard cider, or any substance containing liquor, intended for human consumption, that contains more than 1/2 of 1% of alcohol by volume. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Malt liquor: means liquor:
    • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Manufacturer: means a person who distills, rectifies, brews, ferments, bottles or otherwise produces liquor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Minibar: means a self-contained locking cabinet, refrigerated or unrefrigerated, designed for storing, dispensing and selling liquor and related merchandise. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Off-premises catering: means service of liquor with or without food by a licensee to groups at prearranged functions located at a place other than the licensee's premises. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Performing arts center: means a charitable or nonprofit corporation incorporated as a corporation without capital stock under Title 13, chapter 81 and that has as its primary purpose the encouragement, promotion and presentation of the arts for the benefit of the public. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, firm, association or other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Premises: includes the place where an incorporated civic organization sells or serves spirits, wine and malt liquor under a license obtained under section 1071. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Reselling agent: means an agency liquor store with a federal and state license permitting the agency liquor store to sell spirits to a retail licensee licensed for on-premises consumption. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Restaurant: means a place that is regularly used for the purpose of providing food for the public and that has adequate and sanitary kitchen and dining room equipment and capacity for preparing and serving suitable food for the public. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • sell: means any transfer or delivery of liquor for a consideration. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Spirits: means any liquor produced by distillation or, if produced by any other process, strengthened or fortified by the addition of spirits of any kind. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Wholesale licensee: means a person licensed by the bureau under section 1401 as an in-state wholesaler. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Wine: includes , but is not limited to, hard cider, wine coolers, table wine, still wine, sparkling wine, champagne and fortified wine that do not contain more than 24% alcohol by volume. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 28-A Sec. 2
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
    • 2. Auxiliary license. The following licensed establishments may obtain an auxiliary license to sell spirits, wine or malt liquor for on-premises consumption at one additional premises as provided in section 1075:
    A. A Class A restaurant located at, a Class A restaurant/lounge located at, a Class A lounge located at or a hotel with a Class I license located at a ski area, golf course or disc golf course; and [PL 2021, c. 658, §156 (RPR).]
    B. A golf course with a Class I license or a club with a Class I or Class V license located at a golf course or disc golf course. [PL 2021, c. 658, §156 (NEW).]
    The fee for an auxiliary license is $100.

    [PL 2021, c. 658, §156 (RPR).]

    3. Off-premises catering license. A club licensed to sell spirits, wine and malt liquor or a licensed Class A restaurant, licensed Class A restaurant/lounge, licensed Class A lounge, licensed hotel, licensed bed and breakfast, licensed golf course, licensed auditorium, licensed civic auditorium or licensed performing arts center may obtain a license to conduct off-premises catering of the same type or types of liquor that the establishment may sell pursuant to the establishment’s underlying club, Class A restaurant, Class A restaurant/lounge, Class A lounge, hotel, bed and breakfast, golf course, auditorium, civic auditorium or performing arts center license as provided in section 1052. The fee for an off-premises catering license is $10 per calendar day of the event or gathering.
    A. [PL 2021, c. 658, §157 (RP).]

    [PL 2023, c. 285, §1 (AMD).]

    4. Golf course or disc golf course mobile service bar. A licensee that is the owner of a golf course or disc golf course and a licensee that is a Class A restaurant located at, a Class A restaurant/lounge located at or a hotel with a Class I license located at a golf course or disc golf course may apply for a license to sell liquor from a mobile service bar as provided in section 1075?A. The license fee per calendar year is $100.

    [PL 2021, c. 658, §158 (RPR).]

    5. Small distillery off-premises license.

    [PL 2011, c. 629, §16 (RP).]

    6. Minibar license. The bureau may issue a license for the placement of a minibar to an operator of a hotel licensed under section 1061 or in accordance with the license required by Title 30?A, section 3811 subject to the following conditions and applicable rules established by the bureau:
    A. The fee for a minibar license for a hotel holding an existing license under section 1061 is $100 annually plus $5 for each room in which a minibar is placed, not to exceed a maximum of $900 per hotel; [PL 2009, c. 458, §2 (NEW).]
    B. The fee for a minibar license for a hotel holding an existing license under Title 30?A, section 3811 is $200 annually plus $10 for each room in which a minibar is placed; [PL 2009, c. 458, §2 (NEW).]
    C. A minibar may be stocked with malt liquor, wine and spirits as well as other complementary merchandise; [PL 2021, c. 658, §159 (AMD).]
    D. Supplies of malt liquor and wine for a hotel minibar must be purchased from a wholesale licensee; [PL 2021, c. 658, §160 (AMD).]
    E. Supplies of spirits for a hotel minibar must be purchased from an agency liquor store licensed as a reselling agent under section 453?C; [PL 2019, c. 404, §17 (AMD).]
    F. A hotel must maintain invoices for all liquor stocked in a minibar and must maintain records of all sales of liquor sold or dispensed from a minibar; [PL 2019, c. 404, §17 (AMD).]
    G. A minibar must be equipped with a secure locking device that may be unlocked only by persons 21 years of age or older; [PL 2009, c. 458, §2 (NEW).]
    H. A hotel room equipped with a minibar may be rented only to a person who is 21 years of age or older and who has demonstrated proof of age by presenting proper identification as described in section 2087 unless the minibar is secured in a manner that prevents access by a person under 21 years of age; [PL 2009, c. 458, §2 (NEW).]
    I. The registered occupant of a hotel room equipped with a minibar is liable for any violation of liquor laws by anyone under 21 years of age who also occupies or enters the room; and [PL 2009, c. 458, §2 (NEW).]
    J. A minibar may be stocked and serviced only by an employee who is 21 years of age or older. [PL 2009, c. 458, §2 (NEW).]
    The bureau may adopt rules to implement this subsection. Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2?A.

    [PL 2021, c. 658, §§159, 160 (AMD).]

    7. Common consumption area license. A licensed auditorium, hotel, restaurant, Class A restaurant or Class A restaurant/lounge or a manufacturer licensed under section 1355?A may apply for a common consumption area license to operate a common consumption area within an entertainment district established in accordance with section 221. The license fee is $100.

    [PL 2019, c. 281, §8 (NEW).]

    SECTION HISTORY

    PL 1987, c. 45, §A4 (NEW). PL 1987, c. 151, §1 (AMD). PL 1987, c. 623, §§12,13 (AMD). PL 1995, c. 195, §1 (AMD). PL 1999, c. 236, §1 (AMD). PL 2003, c. 579, §1 (AMD). PL 2005, c. 108, §1 (AMD). PL 2005, c. 390, §4 (AMD). PL 2009, c. 458, §2 (AMD). PL 2011, c. 629, §16 (AMD). PL 2013, c. 368, Pt. V, §40 (AMD). PL 2013, c. 476, Pt. A, §25 (AMD). PL 2017, c. 17, §§6, 7 (AMD). PL 2017, c. 167, §19 (AMD). PL 2019, c. 281, §8 (AMD). PL 2019, c. 404, §§16, 17 (AMD). PL 2021, c. 76, §1 (AMD). PL 2021, c. 658, §§155-160 (AMD). PL 2023, c. 285, §1 (AMD).
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