Unlawful bringing onto premises for consumption.

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  • (1) Except as provided in Subsection (4) and Section 32B-5-307, a person may not bring an alcoholic product for on-premise consumption onto the premises of:
    • (a) a retail licensee or person required to be licensed under this title as a retail licensee;
    • (b) an establishment that conducts a business similar to a retail licensee;
    • (c) an event where an alcoholic product is sold, offered for sale, or furnished under a single event permit or temporary beer event permit issued under this title;
    • (d) an establishment open to the general public; or
    • (e) the capitol hill complex.
  • (2) Except as provided in Subsection (4) and Section 32B-5-307, the following may not allow a person to bring onto its premises an alcoholic product for on-premise consumption or allow consumption of an alcoholic product brought onto its premises in violation of this section:
    • (a) a retail licensee or a person required to be licensed under this title as a retail licensee;
    • (b) an establishment that conducts a business similar to a retail licensee;
    • (c) a single event permittee or temporary beer event permittee;
    • (d) an establishment open to the general public;
    • (e) the State Capitol Preservation Board created in Section 63C-9-201; or
      • (f)staff of a person listed in Subsections (2)(a) through (e).
  • (3) Except as provided in Subsection (4)(c)(i)(A), a person may not consume an alcoholic product in a limousine or chartered bus if the limousine or chartered bus drops off a passenger at:
    • (a) a location from which the passenger departs in a private vehicle; or
    • (b) the capitol hill complex.
  • (4)
    • (a) A person may bring bottled wine onto the premises of the following and consume the wine pursuant to Section 32B-5-307:
      • (i) a full-service restaurant licensee;
      • (ii) a limited restaurant licensee;
      • (iii) a bar establishment licensee; or
      • (iv) a person operating under a resort spa sublicense.
    • (b) A passenger of a limousine may bring onto, possess, and consume an alcoholic product in the limousine if:
      • (i) the travel of the limousine begins and ends at:
        • (A) the residence of the passenger;
        • (B) the hotel of the passenger, if the passenger is a registered guest of the hotel; or
        • (C) the temporary domicile of the passenger;
      • (ii) the driver of the limousine is separated from the passengers by partition or other means approved by the department; and
      • (iii) the limousine is not located on the capitol hill complex.
    • (c) A passenger of a chartered bus may bring onto, possess, and consume an alcoholic product on the chartered bus:
      • (i)
        • (A) but may consume only during travel to a specified destination of the chartered bus and not during travel back to the place where the travel begins; or
        • (B) if the travel of the chartered bus begins and ends at:
          • (I) the residence of the passenger;
          • (II) the hotel of the passenger, if the passenger is a registered guest of the hotel; or
          • (III) the temporary domicile of the passenger;
      • (ii) if the chartered bus has a nondrinking designee other than the driver traveling on the chartered bus to monitor consumption; and
      • (iii) if the chartered bus is not located on the capitol hill complex.
  • (5) A person may bring onto any premises, possess, and consume an alcoholic product at a private event.
  • (6) Notwithstanding Subsection (5), private and public facilities may prohibit the possession or consumption of alcohol on their premises.
  • (7) The restrictions of Subsections (2) and (3) apply to a resort licensee or hotel licensee or person operating under a sublicense in relationship to:
    • (a) the boundary of a resort building, as defined in Section 32B-8-102, or the boundary of a hotel, as defined in Section 32B-8b-102, in an area that is open to the public; or
    • (b) except as provided in Subsection (4), sublicensed premises.




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