S 659 Session 111 (1995-1996)
S 0659 General Bill, By Cork, Elliott, McConnell, Rankin and G.Smith
A Bill to amend the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, by adding Article 5
to Chapter 5, Title 61 so as to provide for Hospitality Cabinets. View full text
03/23/95 Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-3
03/23/95 Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary SJ-3
04/03/96 Senate Committee report: Favorable Judiciary SJ-8
04/04/96 Senate Read second time SJ-54
04/09/96 Senate Read third time and sent to House SJ-11
04/10/96 House Introduced and read first time HJ-15
04/10/96 House Referred to Committee on Judiciary HJ-15
05/15/96 House Committee report: Favorable with amendment
Judiciary HJ-14
05/21/96 House Amended HJ-106
05/21/96 House Read second time HJ-110
05/22/96 House Amended HJ-21
05/22/96 House Debate adjourned HJ-21
05/22/96 House Debate adjourned HJ-34
05/22/96 House Debate adjourned until Thursday, May 23, 1996 HJ-68
05/23/96 House Debate adjourned HJ-14
05/23/96 House Amended HJ-69
05/23/96 House Read third time and returned to Senate with
amendments HJ-71
05/28/96 Senate House amendment amended SJ-22
05/28/96 Senate Returned to House with amendments SJ-22
05/30/96 House Non-concurrence in Senate amendment HJ-81
05/30/96 Senate Senate insists upon amendment and conference
committee appointed Sens. McGill, Cork, Rankin SJ-32
05/30/96 House Conference committee appointed Kelley, Keegan &
Richardson HJ-174
06/13/96 House Free conference powers rejected HJ-74
06/13/96 Senate Free conference powers granted SJ-113
06/13/96 Senate Free conference committee appointed Sens.
McGill, Rankin, Cork SJ-113
06/13/96 Senate Free conference report received and adopted SJ-113
Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter
HOUSE AMENDMENTS AMENDED
May 28, 1996
S. 659
Introduced by SENATORS Cork, Greg Smith, Elliott, McConnell
and Rankin
S. Printed 5/29/96--S.
Read the first time March 23, 1995.
A BILL
TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
1976, BY ADDING ARTICLE 5 TO CHAPTER 5, TITLE 61 SO
AS TO PROVIDE FOR HOSPITALITY CABINETS.
Amend Title To Conform
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South
Carolina:
SECTION 1. Chapter 5, Title 61 of the 1976 Code is amended
by adding:
"Article 5
Hospitality Cabinets
Section 61-5-510. As used in this article:
(1) `Alcoholic beverages' means alcoholic liquors, as defined in
Section 61-3-20, and beer and wine, as defined in Section 61-9-10.
(2) `Legal drinking age' means the age when a person legally
may purchase or consume an alcoholic beverage.
(3) `Hospitality cabinet' means a closed container, refrigerated
in whole or in part or nonrefrigerated, where access to the interior
portion where alcoholic beverages are contained is restricted by
means of a locking device which requires the use of a key,
magnetic card, or similar device.
(4) `Qualified facility' means a hotel, inn, or motel licensed to
sell alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption and which
contains guest room accommodations. It includes condominiums
owned or managed by an otherwise qualified facility.
(5) `Qualified registered guest' means each person of legal
drinking age who signs the guest register of a qualified facility or
takes equivalent action for the purpose of registering as a guest of
the qualified facility.
Section 61-5-520. After approval by ordinance by the governing
body of the county or municipality in which a qualified facility
licensed to sell alcoholic beverages on its premises is located, the
qualified facility also may sell the beverages in sealed containers in
individual portions to its qualified registered guests by means of a
hospitality cabinet located in the rooms of these guests, if the
conditions of this chapter are met. Within ten days of approval by
the governing body, qualified facilities within its jurisdiction and
the South Carolina Department of Revenue and Taxation must be
notified of the approval.
Section 61-5-530. (A) The type of alcoholic beverages
contained in a hospitality cabinet of a qualified facility is limited to
those beverages for which the facility is licensed to sell on
premises.
(B) The hospitality cabinet may contain no more than thirty
individual portions of alcoholic beverages at one time.
(C) The hours during which guests may have access to a
hospitality cabinet are not limited to the hours that the qualified
facility is licensed to sell alcoholic beverages unless this provision
is specified by the governing body in the ordinance.
Section 61-5-540. A hospitality cabinet may be part of another
furniture unit or device, refrigerated in whole or in part or
nonrefrigerated, from which nonalcoholic beverages or food may be
purchased by the guests in qualified facility guest rooms. However,
if nonalcoholic beverages or food may be purchased, the portion of
the hospitality cabinet or similar device in which alcoholic
beverages are stored must be a hospitality cabinet as defined in
Section 61-5-510.
Section 61-5-550. (A) Those portions of a hospitality cabinet
containing alcoholic beverages must remain locked at all times
when a guest room is unrented, except for taking inventory or
restocking and replenishing the hospitality cabinet.
(B) Access to a hospitality cabinet in a particular guest room
must be provided, by furnishing a key, magnetic card, or similar
device, only to a qualified registered guest of legal drinking age,
registered to stay in the guest room.
(C) Before providing a key, magnetic card, or similar device
required to obtain access to the hospitality cabinet in a particular
guest room to the qualified registered guest, the licensee shall verify
that the qualified registered guest is of legal drinking age.
(D) A key, magnetic card, or similar device required to obtain
access to the hospitality cabinet in a particular guest room may be
given only to the qualified registered guest if requested by that
guest and only if the guest is not visibly or obviously intoxicated.
Section 61-5-560. (A) Alcoholic beverages used to restock and
replenish a facility's hospitality cabinets must be kept locked in a
separate, secure room or cabinet, except when the hospitality
cabinets are restocked and replenished.
(B) The hospitality cabinets may be restocked and replenished
with alcoholic beverages only during those hours when the
beverages may be sold on the premises.
Section 61-5-570. The Department of Revenue and Taxation
shall promulgate regulations to implement this article."
SECTION 2. Section 61-3-440 of the 1976 Code, as last
amended by Section 1583 of Act 181 of 1993, is further amended
to read:
"Section 61-3-440. The department shall not grant or
issue any license provided for in this chapter, Chapter 7, and Article
3 of Chapter 13, if the place of business is within three hundred
feet of any church, school, or playground situated within a
municipality or within five hundred feet of any church, school, or
playground situated outside of a municipality. Such distance shall
be computed by following the shortest route of ordinary pedestrian
or vehicular travel along the public thoroughfare from the nearest
point of the grounds in use as part of such church, school, or
playground, which, as used herein, shall be defined as follows:
(1) `Church', an establishment, other than a private dwelling,
where religious services are usually conducted;
(2) `School', an establishment, other than a private dwelling
where the usual processes of education are usually conducted; and
(3) `Playground', a place, other than grounds at a private
dwelling, which is provided by the public or members of a
community for recreation.
The above restrictions shall do not apply to the
renewal of licenses existing on July 10, 1960 or to locations
then existing , and they do not apply to new applications
for locations which are licensed at the time the new application is
filed with the department."
SECTION 3. Section 61-9-312 of the 1976 Code, as last
amended by Section 75, Part II, Act 145 of 1995, is further
amended to read:
"Section 61-9-312. (A) In counties or
municipalities where temporary permits are authorized to be issued
pursuant to Section 61-5-180, in lieu of the retail permit fee
required pursuant to Section 61-9-310, a retail dealer otherwise
eligible for the retail permit under that section may elect to apply
for a special version of that permit which allows sales for
off-premises consumption without regard to the restrictions on the
days or hours of sales provided in Sections 61-9-90, 61-9-100,
61-9-110, and 61-9-130. The annual fee for this special retail
permit is one thousand dollars.
(B) Revenue generated by the fees must be credited to
the general fund of the State except that revenue generated by the
fees within a county where a federal military base or installation has
been closed, or is designated to be closed and where the federal
facility has reduced its permanent civilian employment by three
thousand seven hundred fifty or more jobs after
December 31, 1990, for a period of ten years after the effective date
of Chapter 12 of Title 31, must be credited to a special separate and
distinct account with the Budget and Control Board for support of a
redevelopment authority created therein pursuant to Chapter 12 of
Title 31. All other requirements for retail permits provided in
Section 61-9-310 apply to the special permits authorized by this
section.
(C) (1) Immediately following the dissolution of a
redevelopment authority pursuant to Section 31-12-100 (A), the fees
distributed to the dissolved redevelopment authority pursuant to
subsection (B) must be distributed to the municipality or county in
which the retailer who paid the fee is located. The revenue may
only be used by the municipality or county for the following
purposes:
(a) capital improvements to tourism-related buildings
including, but not limited to, civic centers, convention centers,
coliseums, aquariums, stadiums, marinas, parks, and recreational
facilities;
(b) purchase or renovation of buildings which are historic
properties as defined in Section 60-12-10(4) and (5);
(c) festivals which have a demonstrable and significant
impact on tourism;
(d) acquiring fee and less than fee interest in land while it
is still available to be held in perpetuity as wildlife preserves or
believed to be needed by the public in the future for active and
passive recreation uses and scenic easements, to include the
following types of land: ocean, harbor, and pond frontage in the
form of beaches, dunes, and adjoining backlands; barrier beaches;
fresh and saltwater marshes and adjoining uplands; land for bicycle
baths; land protecting existing and future; public water supply, well
fields, highway buffering and aquifer recharge areas; and land for
wildlife preserves; and land for future public recreational facilities;
(e) nourishment, renourishment (resanding) and
maintenance of beaches;
(f) dune restoration, including the planting of grass, sea
oats, or other vegetation useful in preserving the dune system;
(g) maintenance of public beach access;
(h) capital improvements to the beaches and beach related
facilities, such as public parking areas for beach access; dune
walkovers and rest room facilities, with or without changing rooms,
at public beach parks; and
(i) construction and maintenance of drainage systems.
(2) The revenue may not be used for operating expenses of
tourism-related buildings."
SECTION 4. Section 61-5-180 of the 1976 Code is amended to
read:
"Section 61-5-180. (A) In addition to the
provisions of Section 61-5-85, the department may issue a
temporary permit to allow the possession, sale, and consumption of
alcoholic liquors in sealed containers of two ounces or less. This
permit is valid for a period not to exceed twenty-four hours and
may be issued only to bona fide nonprofit organizations and
business establishments otherwise authorized to be licensed for
sales. The department shall charge a nonrefundable filing fee of
one hundred dollars for processing each application and a daily
permit fee of fifty dollars for each day for which a permit is
approved. An application must be filed for each permit requested.
The department in its sole discretion shall specify the terms and
conditions of the permit.
(B) (1) The permit fees must be credited to
the general fund of the State distributed to the municipality
or county in which the retailer who paid the fee is located. The
revenue may only be used by the municipality or county for the
following purposes:
(a) capital improvements to tourism-related buildings
including, but not limited to, civic centers, convention centers,
coliseums, aquariums, stadiums, marinas, parks, and recreational
facilities;
(b) purchase or renovation of buildings which are
historic properties as defined in Section 60-12-10(4) and (5);
(c) festivals which have a demonstrable and significant
impact on tourism;
(d) local youth mentor programs to serve juvenile
offenders under the jurisdiction of the family court;
(e) contributions to matching funds necessary for a local
government or entity to receive funding from the Legacy Trust
Fund pursuant to Chapter 22 of Title 51;
(f) contributions to a redevelopment authority pursuant to
Section 31-12-10, et seq.;
(g) acquiring fee and less than fee interest in land
while it is still available to be held in perpetuity as wildlife
preserves or believed to be needed by the public in the future for
active and passive recreation uses and scenic easements, to include
the following types of land: ocean, harbor, and pond frontage in
the form of beaches, dunes, and adjoining backlands; barrier
beaches; fresh and saltwater marshes and adjoining uplands; land
for bicycle baths; land protecting existing and future; public water
supply, well fields, highway buffering and aquifer recharge areas;
and land for wildlife preserves; and land for future public
recreational facilities;
(h) nourishment, renourishment (resanding) and
maintenance of beaches;
(i) dune restoration, including the planting of grass, sea
oats, or other vegetation useful in preserving the dune system;
(j) maintenance of public beach access;
(k) capital improvements to the beaches and beach related
facilities, such as public parking areas for beach access; dune
walkovers and rest room facilities, with or without changing rooms,
at public beach parks; and
(l) construction and maintenance of drainage systems.
(2) The revenue may not be used for operating expenses
of tourism-related buildings.
The department in its sole discretion shall specify the terms
and conditions of the permit.
(C) Permits authorized by this section may be issued
only in those counties or municipalities where a majority of the
qualified electors voting in a referendum vote in favor of the
issuance of the permits. The county or municipal election
commission, as the case may be, shall conduct a referendum upon
petition of at least ten percent but not more than twenty-five
hundred qualified electors of the county or municipality, as the case
may be, in not less than thirty nor more than forty days after
receiving the petition. The election commission shall cause a notice
to be published in a newspaper circulated in the county or
municipality, as the case may be, at least seven days before the
referendum. The state election laws shall apply to the referendum
mutatis mutandis. The election commission shall publish the results
of the referendum and certify them to the South Carolina
Department of Revenue and Taxation. The question on the ballot
shall read substantially as follows:
`Shall the South Carolina Department of Revenue and Taxation
be authorized to issue temporary permits in this
(county)(municipality) for a period not to exceed twenty-four hours
to allow the possession, sale, and consumption of alcoholic liquors
in sealed containers of two ounces or less to bona fide nonprofit
organizations and business establishments otherwise authorized to
be licensed for sales?'
A referendum for this purpose may not be held more often than
once in forty-eight months.
The expenses of any such referendum must be paid by the county
or municipality conducting the referendum."
SECTION 5. In a county in which temporary permits may be
issued pursuant to Section 61-5-180, revenue generated by the fees
imposed under that section within a county where a federal military
base or installation has been closed, or is designated to be closed
and where the federal facility has reduced its permanent civilian
employment by seven hundred fifty or more jobs, but not more than
two thousand nine hundred ninety-nine jobs, after December 31,
1990, for a period of five years beginning July 1, 1997, must be
credited to a special separate and distinct account with the Budget
and Control Board for support of a redevelopment authority created
therein pursuant to Chapter 12 of Title 31.
SECTION 6. Section 3 of this act takes effect July 1, 1996, and
Sections 4 and 5 of this act take effect July 1, 1997. The remaining
sections take effect upon approval of the Governor.
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