Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 178 - Liquor Licenses and Fees

• Adult: means any individual 21 years of age, or older. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Airport: means any type of landing area open to the public, which has facilities including but not limited to hangars, refueling areas, maintenance or repair service and commercial scheduled passenger aviation operations. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Alcohol: means that substance known as ethyl alcohol or hydrated oxide of ethyl alcohol which is commonly produced by the fermentation or distillation of grain, starch, molasses, sugar, potatoes or other substances, including all solids, powders, crystals, dilutions and mixtures of these substances. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Ballroom: means an indoor facility which has seating accommodations for at least 500 patrons and which provides live entertainment. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Bed and breakfast: means a building or buildings regularly used and kept open as such in a bona fide manner for the feeding and lodging of transient guests. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Beer: means beer, specialty beer as defined by N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Beverage manufacturer retail outlet: means an outlet for the sale, sampling, and promotion of beverages and other products manufactured by a beverage manufacturer licensee. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Beverage vendor: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation, including any subsidiaries thereof, which sells beverages or specialty beverages to wholesale distributors. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Brew pub: means a manufacturer of beer, specialty beer, or cider not exceeding 2,500 barrels annually, which as a functional part of its business, maintains a full service restaurant serving the beer it manufactures as well as other beverage and liquor as allowed by N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Brewer: means a person who owns or operates a brewery. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Brewery: means any place or premises where any beer is manufactured and all offices, granaries, mash-rooms, cooling-rooms, vaults, yards, cellars, and storerooms connected therewith or where any part of the process of manufacture of beer is carried on, or where any apparatus connected with such manufacture is kept or used, or where any of the products of brewing or fermentation are stored or kept. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Caterer: means a person who provides meals or other food as well as liquor or beverage service to private groups on premises approved by the commission for such service. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Cider: means either the naturally fermented expressed juice of apples or the fermented expressed juice of apples to which activated yeast is added, containing not less than
  1/2 of one percent alcohol by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, which may contain flavoring, coloring or related ingredients and may be carbonated or fermented in a sealed container to produce a sparkling beverage or liquor. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Club-bottle: means a business, organized under the laws of this state, which maintains a premises that permits the storage of and the consumption of beverage or liquor and that operates with persons who, with or without compensation, furnish support services for the consumption of beverage and liquor to persons who have paid a reasonable fee for such services. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Cocktail lounge: means a room operated for the purpose of serving liquor and beverages without the benefit of food. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Commission: means the state liquor commission. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Common carrier: means a person who, for a fee, provides public transportation of goods or persons. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract brewer: means a brewery hired by a beverage manufacturer, nano brewery, or brew pub to produce a beverage for the beverage manufacturer. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Contract brewing arrangement: means a business relationship in which a beverage manufacturer, nano brewery, or brew pub pays another brewer to produce a beverage for the beverage manufacturer, nano brewer, or brew pub for sale. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Convention center: means a facility with seating for at least 600 persons consisting of at least one public dining area, which shall seat at least 175 persons, where meals are regularly served, and at least one cocktail lounge with a capacity of at least 200 persons, and convention rooms which together shall seat at least 225 persons and which are regularly used for the assembly of persons participating in business, political, professional or other organizational gatherings. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Corporation: means a corporation organized and incorporated under the laws of this state or authorized to transact business within this state. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Designee: means a person designated in writing by the owner or operator of a business to hold the liquor license for that particular business. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Direct shipper: means any licensee outside the state of New Hampshire who accepts orders placed from New Hampshire, by mail, telephone, Internet, or any electronic or other means, for liquor or beverages and who ships, packages for shipment, or facilitates in any way shipment of said liquor or beverages by a licensed carrier to a New Hampshire location. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• E-cigarette: means any electronic smoking device composed of a mouthpiece, a heating element, a battery, and electronic circuits that may or may not contain nicotine or e-liquid. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• following: when used by way of reference to any section of these laws, shall mean the section next preceding or following that in which such reference is made, unless some other is expressly designated. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:13
• Full service restaurant: means a room or rooms capable of seating, at tables with chairs or at booths, at least 20 guests at one time. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Host brewer: means a beverage manufacturer who has entered into host-tenant partnership with a tenant brewer licensed under N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Hotel: means a facility regularly used, maintained and kept open for the feeding and lodging of transient guests. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Humidor: means a container or room specifically designed to store and age cigars within the optimal humidity range of 65 percent to 72 percent at room temperature, containing a humidification device or system designed to add or remove moisture from its interior space to maintain the desired level of humidity. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• justice: when applied to a magistrate, shall mean a justice of a municipal court, or a justice of the peace having jurisdiction over the subject-matter. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:12
• License: means the authority granted by the commission to engage in the sale of liquor, wine, beverages, tobacco products, or e-cigarettes otherwise unlawful unless evidenced by such document. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Licensee: means the person to whom a license of any kind is issued by the commission. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Limited liability company: means a limited liability company organized under the laws of this state or authorized to transact business within the state. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Liquor: means all distilled and rectified spirits, alcohol, wines, fermented and malt liquors and cider, of over 6 percent alcoholic content by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Liquor and wine representative: means a person who offers for sale or solicits orders for the sale of any liquor or wine or both. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Liquor manufacturer: means a licensee who produces liquor from raw materials by the process of fermentation and distillation. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Liquor vendor: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company or corporation, which sells liquor and fortified wines containing more than 15. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Live entertainment: means at least one person employed with or without compensation to entertain guests or patrons on the premises of a licensed establishment and shall include, but not be limited to, musicians, disc jockeys, theater companies and other related performers. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Minor: means an individual under the age of 21. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• month: shall mean a calendar month, and the word "year" a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; and the word "year" shall be equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:8
• oath: shall include "affirmation" in all cases where by law an affirmation may be substituted for an oath; and, in like cases, the word "sworn" shall include the word "affirmed. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:24
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Off-sale: means table or fortified wine and beverage sold for consumption off the premises as authorized in this title. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Performing arts facility: means a non-profit facility which seats more than 50 persons and has as its primary purpose the encouragement, promotion and presentation of the performing arts for the benefit of the general public. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Person: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company or corporation. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• petition: when used in connection with the equity jurisdiction of the superior court, and referring to a document filed with the court, shall mean complaint, and "petitioner" shall mean plaintiff. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:51
• Premises: means and includes all parts of the contiguous real estate occupied by a licensee over which the licensee has direct or indirect control or interest and which the licensee uses in the operation of the licensed business, and which have been approved by the commission as proper places in which to exercise the licensee's privilege. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Public building: means any building maintained and available for any person, group, or organization, which may include retail business establishments, when they are not open to the public; licensed premises, provided there is a physical, immovable barrier between the licensed business and the rented area; and tents, gazebos, or other defined outdoor areas, provided 2 separate toilet facilities are located in the immediate vicinity. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Racetrack: means a facility which is licensed by the state's lottery commission, for pari-mutuel betting purposes or a commercial motor vehicle racetrack facility with a paved course of at least
  1/4 mile. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Rail car: means any car which, while attached to a train operating for the transportation of passengers on a regular or special schedule, is utilized as a cocktail lounge. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Rectifier: means a licensee who produces liquor by combining liquor with other products. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Restaurant: means a space, in a suitable or permanent building, kept, used, maintained, advertised and held out to the public to be a place where meals are regularly served. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Retail outlet: means any florist shop, grocery or convenience store, department store, drug store, restaurant, hotel, motel, or any other retail establishment approved by the commission. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Retailer: when used with respect to tobacco products or e-cigarettes, means any person who sells tobacco products or e-cigarettes to consumers, and any vending machine in which tobacco products are sold. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Sampling: means distributing free tobacco products to consumers for promotional purposes. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Single serve: means a specialty beverage container that does not exceed 16 ounces. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Specialty beer: means any beer as defined in N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Specialty beverage: means any wine based product or liquor based product with other liquids added for human consumption having a combined alcoholic content of not less than 6 percent alcohol by volume and not more than 8 percent alcohol by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit and sold in single serve ready to drink containers that shall not exceed 16 ounces. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Specialty cider: means either the naturally fermented expressed juice of apples or the fermented expressed juice of apples to which activated yeast is added, either of which contains not less than 8 percent and not more than 12 percent alcohol by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• sworn: when applied to public officers required by the constitution to take oaths therein prescribed, shall refer to those oaths; when applied to other officers it shall mean sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of their offices before a justice of the peace, or other person authorized to administer official oaths in such cases. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:25
• Tenant brewer: means a person who has a brewer's notice approved by the United States Department of the Treasury Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau allowing the person to engage in an alternating brewery proprietorship. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Tobacco products: means cigarettes, loose tobacco, and smokeless tobacco. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• United States: shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
• Vending machine: means any self-service device which, upon insertion of money, tokens, or any other form of payment, dispenses tobacco, cigarettes, or any other tobacco product. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Vessel: means any watercraft approved and inspected by the U. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Wholesale distributor: means a person licensed by the commission to engage in the purchase of beverages only from the holders of wholesale distributor licenses, beverage manufacturer licenses, beverage vendor licenses, brew pub licenses, or nano brewery licenses. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Wine manufacturer retail outlet: means an outlet for the sale, sampling, and promotion of wine and other products manufactured by a wine manufacturer licensee. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Wine vendor: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation, which sells table wine to the state, containing more than 6 percent but not more than 24 percent alcoholic content by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1