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Alcoholic Beverages - Refillable Container License - For the purpose of adding Class E to those classes of license holders currently authorized to sell draft beer in refillable containers.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Ordinance 29-16
Introduced by: Alderman Paone
Referred to
Economic Matters Committee
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Alcoholic Beverages - Refillable Container License
FOR the purpose of adding Class E to those classes of license holders currently authorized to sell draft beer in refillable containers.
BY repealing and re-enacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2015 Edition
7.12.335
SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:
Chapter 7.12 ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
7.12.335 - Additional license class-Refillable container license.
A. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board may issue to Class A, Class B, and Class D, AND CLASS E license holders a class of license that authorizes refillable containers. The suffix ".g" shall indicate that a license permits the sale of draft beer in refillable containers.
B. Subject to paragraph C. of this section, the classes of license authorizing the sale of draft beer in refillable containers entitle the license holder to sell, for consumption off the licensed premises, draft beer in refillable containers with a capacity of not less than thirty-two ounces and not more than one hundred twenty-eight ounces.
C. To be used as a refillable container under Paragraph B. of this section, a container shall:
1. Be sealable;
2. Be branded with an identifying mark of a license holder;
3. Bear the Federal Health Warning Statement required for containers of alcoholic beverages under 27 C.F.R. 16.21;
4. Display instructions for cleaning the container; and
5. Bear a label stating that:
a. Cleaning the container is the responsibility of the consumer; and
b. The contents of the container are perishable, should be refrigerated immediately, and should be consumed within forty-eight hours after purchase.
D. The term of a refillable container license issued to a successful applicant shall be the same as the term of the license that the applicant holds at the time of application.
E. The hours of sale for a refillable container license shall begin at the same time as the hours for the license already held by the license holder and shall end at midnight.
F. A license holder may refill only a refillable container that was branded by a license holder.
G. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board shall adopt regulations to carry out this section.
SECTION II: AND BE IT FURTHER ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that this ordinance shall take effect from the date of its passage.
EXPLANATION
CAPITAL LETTERS indicate matter added to existing law.
Strikethrough indicates matter stricken from existing law.
Underlining indicates amendments