SENATE, No. 210

By Mr. Moore, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 210) of Richard T. Moore, Scott P. Brown, John Binienda, Edward G. Connolly and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to the on-premise consumption of wine. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the Year Two Thousand and Five.


AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE ON-PREMISE CONSUMPTION OF WINE

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1.

The first paragraph of section 12 of chapter 138, as appearing in the 2002 Official edition, is hereby amended, in line 16, by striking the period after the word “hereunder” and adding the following:-; and provided further that the above limitations relative to service and consumption in a restaurant or hotel only in the dinning room or dining rooms and such other public rooms or areas deemed reasonable and proper by the local licensing authorities shall not be deemed to preclude a patron of said restaurant or hotel from retaining and taking off premixes only so much as may remain of any bottled wine purchased by said a patron in conjunction with a meal and not totally consumed by the patron during such meal. Provided, however, that the bottle shall be re-sealed in accordance with regulations promulgated by the alcohol beverage control commission.