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Title 4 - Alcoholic Beverages

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Chapter 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec: 4-101-4-120
Article 1Definitions
Article 2Department of Liquor Licenses and Control
  • 4-111
  • State liquor board; department of liquor licenses and control; members; director; appointment and removal
  • 4-112
  • Powers and duties of board and director of department of liquor licenses and control; investigations; county and municipal regulation; definition
  • 4-113
  • Enforcement officer; credentials; peace officer status
  • 4-114
  • Interest in business prohibited; forfeiture of office
  • 4-115
  • Disposition of fees and penalties
  • 4-116
  • Receipts from club licenses and applications
  • 4-116.01
  • Receipts from sampling privilege and growler permits
  • 4-118
  • Inspection of premises
  • 4-120
  • Liquor licenses fund; exemption
Chapter 2
REGULATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS
Sec: 4-201-4-262
Article 1Licenses
  • 4-201
  • Licensing; application procedure in city, town or county; burden of proof
  • 4-202
  • Qualifications of licensees; application; background information; prior convictions
  • 4-203
  • Licenses; issuance; transfer; reversion to state; tastings; rules; off-sale privileges; order requirements
  • 4-203.03
  • Farm winery festival license; farm winery fair license; fee
  • 4-203.04
  • Direct shipment license; issuance; fee; requirements; renewal; civil penalties; limitations; duties; violation; classification; applicability
  • 4-203.06
  • Mixed cocktails; off-sale privileges; leases; fees
  • 4-203.07
  • Off-sale privileges; leases; mixed cocktails; permits; fees
  • 4-204
  • Personal representative or fiduciary acting for licensee
  • 4-205
  • Issuance of club license; regulatory provisions; revocation
  • 4-205.01
  • Hotel-motel license; issuance; revocation
  • 4-205.02
  • Restaurant license; issuance; regulatory provisions; expiration; off-sale leases and permits; fee; definitions
  • 4-205.03
  • Government license; issuance; regulatory provisions; agreements with coliseum concessionaires; definitions
  • 4-205.04
  • Farm winery license; issuance; regulatory provisions; retail site; fee
  • 4-205.05
  • Disposal of seized or recovered liquor
  • 4-205.06
  • Hotel or motel minibars; rules; definitions
  • 4-205.07
  • Conveyance license for excursion boats
  • 4-205.08
  • Microbrewery license; issuance; regulatory provisions; retail site
  • 4-205.09
  • Microbrewery and farm winery licenses on same land; requirements
  • 4-205.10
  • Craft distiller license; issuance; regulatory provisions; fee
  • 4-205.11
  • Craft distillery festival license; craft distillery fair license; craft distillery fee
  • 4-205.12
  • Tasting rooms with shared patios
  • 4-205.13
  • Registered alcohol delivery contractor; issuance; fee; regulatory provisions
  • 4-205.14
  • Microbrewery festival license; microbrewery fair license; fee
  • 4-206.01
  • Bar, beer and wine bar or liquor store licenses; number permitted; fee; sampling privileges; off-sale permit
  • 4-207
  • Restrictions on licensing premises near school buildings; definition
  • 4-207.01
  • Submission of floor plan required; alteration of licensed premises; ingress and egress to off-sale package sales in on-sale licensed premises
  • 4-207.02
  • Multiple licensees with joint premises
  • 4-207.03
  • Extended premises; application; requirements; fee
  • 4-208
  • Rejection as to location
  • 4-209
  • Fees for license, application, issuance, renewal and transfer; late renewal penalty; seasonal operation; surcharges
  • 4-210
  • Grounds for revocation, suspension and refusal to renew; notice; complaints; hearings; defense
  • 4-210.01
  • Authority to impose civil penalty; training
  • 4-211
  • Judicial review; bond
  • 4-214
  • Arizona wines; labeling
  • 4-215
  • Regional shopping centers; commercial offices and retail centers; extension of premises; application; approval; fee; definition
Article 2Regulatory Provisions
  • 4-221
  • Registration of stills; forfeiture; sale; proceeds
  • 4-222
  • Registration of retail agents; fees
  • 4-223
  • Authority of cities and towns to tax transactions involving spirituous liquors; prohibitions
  • 4-224
  • Local ordinances; prohibitions
  • 4-225
  • Food safety; federal law; preemption
  • 4-227
  • Qualified retail cooperatives; pricing; definitions
  • 4-228
  • Front entrance lock prohibited; exception
  • 4-229
  • Licenses; handguns; posting of notice
Article 3Prohibitions
  • 4-241
  • Selling or giving liquor to underage person; illegally obtaining liquor by underage person; violation; classification
  • 4-242
  • Sale of liquor on credit prohibited; exceptions
  • 4-242.01
  • Prohibition of automatic teller machine or point-of-sale terminal that accepts electronic benefit transfer cards on premises
  • 4-243
  • Commercial coercion or bribery unlawful; exceptions
  • 4-243.01
  • Purchasing from other than primary source of supply unlawful; definitions
  • 4-243.02
  • Sale of beer, wine or distilled spirits by producer; limitations
  • 4-243.04
  • On-sale retail licensees; ownership interests; conditions
  • 4-244
  • Unlawful acts; definition
  • 4-244.02
  • Unlawful importation of spirituous liquor; exceptions
  • 4-244.05
  • Unlicensed business establishment or premises; unlawful consumption of spirituous liquor; civil penalty; seizure and forfeiture of property
  • 4-246
  • Violation; classification; fine; civil penalty
  • 4-248
  • Reporting by court of convictions; definition
  • 4-249
  • Consumption of liquor by underage person in religious service allowed
  • 4-250
  • Distilled spirits pricing; prohibition
  • 4-250.01
  • Out-of-state person engaged in business as producer, exporter, importer, rectifier, retailer or wholesaler; violation; cease and desist order; civil penalty
  • 4-251
  • Spirituous liquor in motor vehicles; prohibitions; violation; classification; exceptions; definitions
Article 4Warning Signs
  • 4-261
  • Warning signs; consumption of spirituous liquor during pregnancy; composition of signs; rules; inspection of premises; penalty
Chapter 3
CIVIL LIABILITY OF LICENSEES AND OTHER PERSONS
Sec: 4-301-4-312
Article 1Liability Limitation
  • 4-301
  • Liability limitation; social host
  • 4-302
  • Notice of litigation
Article 2Illegal Sale of Spirituous Liquor
  • 4-311
  • Liability for serving intoxicated person or minor; definition
  • 4-312
  • Liability limitation