Ala. Admin. Code r. 20-X-6-.02

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 8, May 31, 2024

Section 20-X-6-.02 - On-Premises Licensees

(1) All ABC Board on-premises licensees must have restroom facilities which conform to standards and requirements established by state, county and, when applicable, municipal health departments.

(2) All ABC Board on-premises licensees must have facilities to properly sanitize containers used to dispense alcoholic beverages. Such facilities must conform with standards and requirements established by federal, state, county, and when applicable, municipal health departments.

(3) An ABC Board on-premises licensee is prohibited from conducting, sponsoring or allowing any type of contest which requires participants to consume alcoholic beverages on the licensed premises.

(4) No ABC Board on-premises licensee, employee or agent thereof shall serve any person alcoholic beverages if such person appears, considering the totality of the circumstances, to be intoxicated.

(5) No ABC Board on-premises licensee, employee or agent thereof, engaged in serving customers, may consume alcoholic beverages during working hours.

(6) All ABC Board licensees authorized to conduct retail sales on-premises shall designate and mark an area no smaller than 500 square feet solely for service and consumption on-premises. The on-premises consumption area shall not contain sales or display items.

(a) This area shall be open and available to customers for on-premises consumption at all times that alcoholic beverages are available for sale at that premises.

(b) An employee shall be present in and maintain control of the on-premises area at all times the business is open for operation.

(c) No patron shall be allowed to leave the on-premises area or the licensed premises with an open container of alcoholic beverage.

(7) All ABC Board licensees authorized to conduct retail sales on-premises shall at all times provide tables and seating adequate to accommodate no less than 16 persons within the designated on-premises consumption area.

Ala. Admin. Code r. 20-X-6-.02

Repealed and New: Filed August 21, 1998; effective October 16, 1998. Amended: Filed April 2, 2010; effective May 7, 2010.

Amended by Alabama Administrative Monthly Volume XXXIX, Issue No. 11, August 31, 2021, eff. 10/15/2021.

Author: ABC Board

Statutory Authority:Code of Ala. 1975, § 28-3-49.