SENATE BILL 329

51st legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2013

INTRODUCED BY

Phil A. Griego

AN ACT

RELATING TO ALCOHOL; AMENDING AND ENACTING SECTIONS OF THE LIQUOR CONTROL ACT TO PROVIDE FOR HOTEL LICENSURE.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. A new section of the Liquor Control Act is enacted to read:

     "[NEW MATERIAL] HOTEL LICENSE.--In a local option district that has voted to approve the sale of alcoholic beverages, the director may issue a hotel license upon application by a person qualified under the provisions of the Liquor Control Act subject to the following requirements and restrictions:

          A. a hotel licensee shall be allowed to sell beer, wine and spirituous liquors in opened containers for on-premises consumption as well as at wet bars as provided for in Section 60-7B-13 NMSA 1978;

          B. a hotel licensee shall be allowed to sell beer, wine and spirituous liquors in the entire hotel facility;

          C. the hotel licensee shall have a valid food establishment permit and a commercial kitchen, dining room and the employees necessary to prepare and serve meals, not just fast foods, for consumption on the premises;

          D. a hotel license shall not be transferred from person to person or from one location to another; 

          E. a hotel license shall expire annually and be subject to renewal upon application to the director by the licensee pursuant to Section 60-6B-5 NMSA 1978;

          F. sale, service and consumption of alcoholic beverages authorized in this section shall be permitted during the hours set forth in Section 60-7A-1 NMSA 1978; and

          G. the provisions of Section 60-6A-18 NMSA 1978 shall not apply to hotel licenses."

     SECTION 2. Section 60-6A-15 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1981, Chapter 39, Section 32, as amended) is amended to read:

     "60-6A-15. LICENSE FEES.--Every application for the issuance or renewal of the following licenses shall be accompanied by a license fee in the following specified amounts:

          A. manufacturer's license as a distiller, except a brandy manufacturer, three thousand dollars ($3,000);

          B. manufacturer's license as a brewer, three thousand dollars ($3,000);

          C. manufacturer's license as a rectifier, one thousand fifty dollars ($1,050);

          D. wholesaler's license to sell all alcoholic beverages for resale only, two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500);

          E. wholesaler's license to sell spirituous liquors and wine for resale only, one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,750);

          F. wholesaler's license to sell spirituous liquors for resale only, one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500);

          G. wholesaler's license to sell beer and wine for resale only, one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500);

          H. wholesaler's license to sell beer for resale only, one thousand dollars ($1,000);

          I. wholesaler's license to sell wine for resale only, seven hundred fifty dollars ($750);

          J. retailer's license, one thousand three hundred dollars ($1,300);

          K. dispenser's license, one thousand three hundred dollars ($1,300);

          L. canopy license, one thousand three hundred dollars ($1,300);

          M. restaurant license, one thousand fifty dollars ($1,050);

          N. club license, for clubs with more than two hundred fifty members, one thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($1,250), and for clubs with two hundred fifty members or fewer, two hundred fifty dollars ($250);

          O. wine bottler's license to sell to wholesalers only, five hundred dollars ($500);

          P. public service license, one thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($1,250);

          Q. nonresident licenses, for a total billing to New Mexico wholesalers:

                (1) in excess of:

$3,000,000 annually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,500;

 1,000,000 annually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,250;

   500,000 annually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,750;

   200,000 annually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,700;

   100,000 annually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,800;

and

    50,000 annually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900;

and

                (2) of $50,000 or less annually. . . . . $300;

          R. wine wholesaler's license, for persons with sales of five thousand gallons of wine per year or less, twenty-five dollars ($25.00), and for persons with sales in excess of five thousand gallons of wine per year, one hundred dollars ($100); [and]

          S. beer bottler's license, two hundred dollars ($200); and

          T. hotel license, an initial license fee of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) and an annual renewal fee of one thousand three hundred dollars ($1,300)."

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