Title 4, Alcoholic Beverages

In this title, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Act of violence": (a) Means an incident that consists of a riot, a fight, an altercation or tumultuous conduct and that meets at least one of the following criteria: (i) Bodily injuries are sustained by any person and the …

A. The department of liquor licenses and control is established consisting of the state liquor board and the office of director of the department. B. The board consists of seven members to be appointed by the governor pursuant to section 38-211. Five of the members of the board s…

A. The board shall: 1. Grant and deny applications in accordance with the provisions of this title. 2. Adopt rules in order to carry out the provisions of this section. 3. Hear appeals and hold hearings as provided in this section. B. Except as provided in subsection A of this se…

Each enforcement officer within the department who is designated by the director shall, for identification purposes, have credentials signed by the director and countersigned by the governor and, when bearing these credentials, has the powers and duties of a peace officer.

A. Except for a member designated by the governor to be appointed from the industry, no member of the board or the director or any employee of the department shall be financially interested directly or indirectly in any business licensed to deal in spirituous liquors. B. Violatio…

A. Unless otherwise provided, all license, registration and other fees and all penalties collected pursuant to this title shall be deposited, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, in the liquor licenses fund established by section 4-120, except that monies in excess of the annu…

Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, all receipts derived from club licenses and applications therefor are appropriated to the department of economic security for buildings, equipment or other capital investments. All revenue so received by the department shall b…

Notwithstanding any other law, all receipts derived from sampling privilege and growler permit applications are appropriated to the department. The department shall deposit monies received pursuant to this section in the liquor licenses fund established by section 4-120. The amou…

The director, the director's agents and any peace officer may, in enforcing the provisions of this title, visit during the hours in which the premises are occupied and inspect the premises of a licensee.

A. A licensee shall keep records of licensed business activity in a manner and location and for such duration as prescribed by the director. The rules of the director shall require that each on-sale retailer maintain at the licensed premises a copy of all required records includi…

A. The liquor licenses fund is established consisting of monies deposited pursuant to sections 4-115 and 4-116.01. The department of liquor licenses and control shall administer the fund. The amount deposited in the fund each year shall not exceed the amount appropriated by the l…

A. A person desiring a license to manufacture, sell or deal in spirituous liquors shall apply to the director on a form prescribed and furnished by the director. B. A person who files an application for a license within an incorporated city or town shall file the application with…

A. In the event any decision, hearing, or other action by the department, including the board, is alleged to be untimely, an aggrieved person may file a demand that the department take action within fifteen days. In the event the department does not then act, the aggrieved person…

A. Every spirituous liquor licensee, other than a club licensee, a corporation licensee, a limited liability company licensee or an out-of-state licensee, shall be a citizen of the United States and a bona fide resident of this state or a legal resident alien who is a bona fide r…

A. A spirituous liquor license shall be issued only after satisfactory showing of the capability, qualifications and reliability of the applicant and, with the exception of wholesaler, producer, government or club licenses, that the public convenience requires and that the best i…

A. The director may issue an interim permit to the applicant for a license of the same series, or for the replacement of a hotel-motel license with a restaurant license, at the same premises whether that license is transferrable or nontransferable and any of the following conditi…

A. The director may issue on a temporary basis: 1. A daily on-sale special event license authorizing the sale of spirituous liquor for consumption on the premises where sold. The fee for the license is $25 per day. The director shall transfer the monies collected to the departmen…

A. The director may issue on a temporary basis a craft producer festival license that authorizes: 1. The sampling of the craft producer products on the craft producer festival premises. 2. The sale of the craft producer products for consumption on the craft producer festival prem…

A. The director may issue a direct shipment license to any winery that holds a federal basic permit issued by the United States alcohol and tobacco tax and trade bureau and a current license to produce wine issued by this state or any other state. A farm winery licensed pursuant …

A licensee who holds a license in nonuse status shall not be responsible for and shall not accrue any municipal license fee or tax or municipal renewal fee or tax attributed to the time that the license is properly held in nonuse status.

A. Notwithstanding section 4-203, subsection E and section 4-210, subsection A, paragraph 6, a bar, beer and wine bar and liquor store licensee may lease the off-sale privileges associated with the licensee's license, except the privilege to sell mixed cocktails for off-premises …

A. A person acting as administrator, executor or guardian of the estate of any licensee or a person acting as receiver for any licensee, trustee of the bankrupt estate of any licensee or assignee for the benefit of creditors of a licensee is authorized, upon receiving permission …

A. The director may issue one club license to any club as defined in section 4-101. B. The holder of a club license is authorized to sell and serve alcoholic beverages for consumption only within the licensed establishment owned, leased or occupied by the club, and only to bona f…

A. The director may issue a hotel-motel license to any hotel or motel in this state that has in conjunction with such hotel or motel a restaurant where food is served. B. The director shall issue the license in the name of the hotel or motel upon application for the license by th…

A. The director may issue a restaurant license to any restaurant in this state that is regularly open for serving food to guests for compensation and that has suitable kitchen facilities connected with the restaurant for keeping, cooking and preparing foods required for ordinary …

A. The department may issue a government license to any state agency, state board, state commission, county, city, town, community college or state university, the national guard or the Arizona exposition and state fair board on application authorized by the governing body of the…

A. The director may issue a farm winery license to any person who meets the requirements of subsection C of this section. Each location that engages in producing or manufacturing these products must obtain a separate farm winery license. The licensee may not transfer the farm win…

A. The director may issue a temporary permit of any series authorizing the disposal at public auction of spirituous liquor that has been seized by any agency of this state, the federal government, any political subdivision of this state, any financial institution as defined in se…

A. Notwithstanding any other statute, a hotel or motel may sell spirituous liquor in sealed containers in individual portions to its registered guests at any time by means of a minibar located in the guest rooms of those registered guests, if all of the following conditions are m…

A. The director may issue a conveyance license to the owner or lessee of an excursion boat if all of the following conditions apply: 1. The applicant for the license shall designate a dock as the home port for the boat. 2. The notice of the license application shall be prominentl…

A. The director may issue a microbrewery license to any microbrewery. Each location that engages in producing, manufacturing and bottling these products must obtain a separate microbrewery license. The licensee may not transfer the microbrewery license from person to person or fr…

A. The director may issue a microbrewery license located on the same parcel of land as a farm winery subject to the following conditions: 1. The licenses of the microbrewery and the farm winery shall be held by different persons, except that the director may issue both licenses t…

A. The director may issue a craft distiller license to any person that meets the requirements of subsection C of this section. Each location that engages in producing and bottling these products must obtain a separate craft distiller license. The licensee may not transfer the cra…

A. The director may issue a remote tasting room license to a craft distiller or a domestic farm winery for a tasting room that is located on the same property as another remote tasting room license, subject to the following conditions: 1. Each remote tasting room license shall be…

A. The director may register any person in this state as an alcohol delivery contractor for the purposes of delivering spirituous liquor from a bar, beer and wine bar, liquor store, beer and wine store or restaurant licensee to a consumer in this state pursuant to section 4-203, …

A. The director shall determine the total number of spirituous liquor licenses by type and in each county. The director shall publish a listing of that information as determined by the director. B. In each county, the director, each year, shall issue additional bar or liquor stor…

A. A retailer's license shall not be issued for any premises that are, at the time the license application is received by the director, within three hundred horizontal feet of a public or private school building with kindergarten programs or any of grades one through twelve or wi…

A. No licensee of premises approved for transfer or an original location of on-sale spirituous liquor license shall open such licensed premises to the public for sale of spirituous liquor until the licensee shall first have filed with the director floor plans and diagrams complet…

A. One or more on-sale spirituous liquor licensees with the same type of bar, beer and wine bar, restaurant or remote tasting room license may apply to the director for a joint premises permit. The premises of each applicant shall be adjacent to and fully contiguous to the joint …

A. A liquor licensee with on-sale retail privileges may apply to the director to extend the licensed premises on an individual day or hour basis, on a regular recurring basis or on an ongoing limited use basis to contiguous private property that is owned or leased by the applican…

A. The director shall not accept an application nor issue a license to sell or deal in spirituous liquors at a location for which a prior application has been rejected until twelve months after the date of the prior rejection. B. No application for a license to deal in spirituous…

A. A fee shall accompany an application for an original license or transfer of a license, or in case of renewal, shall be paid in advance. Every license expires annually, except that a license may be renewed for a two-year period pursuant to subsection M of this section if no com…

A. After notice and hearing, the director may suspend, revoke or refuse to renew any license, registration, lease or permit issued pursuant to this chapter for any of the following reasons: 1. There occurs on the licensed premises repeated acts of violence. 2. The licensee, regis…

A. In lieu of or in addition to the suspension or revocation of or refusal to renew a registration pursuant to section 4-205.13, subsection G and a license authorized by section 4-210, subsection A, the director may impose a civil penalty of at least $200 and not more than $3,000…

A. Except as provided in section 4-203.01, subsection E, a decision issued by the director is not final for purposes of appeal to superior court until it has first been appealed to and ruled on by the board. Any aggrieved party may appeal any final decision of the director regard…

A. Except as provided in section 41-1092.08, subsection H, final decisions of the board are subject to judicial review pursuant to title 12, chapter 7, article 6. B. In the case of any judicial review of a decision of the department, the director may require the posting of a bond…

If the board or the director has reasonable grounds to believe that a person is violating section 4-244.05 or 4-250.01 or is manufacturing, selling or dealing in spirituous liquor without a valid license, permit or registration in violation of this title, the board or the directo…

A. The director may require a restaurant to submit an audit of its records to demonstrate compliance with section 4-205.02. The director shall not require an establishment to submit to such an audit more than once a year after the initial twelve months of operation and shall not …

A. A person licensed as a farm winery pursuant to section 4-205.04 or licensed as a producer pursuant to section 4-203 may label a wine offered for sale that states that the wine is any of the following: 1. An Arizona wine or a wine from a particular county in this state, if at l…

A. The owner or management of a regional shopping center that encompasses at least four hundred thousand square feet of retail space, on behalf of retail licensees located at the shopping center, may apply to the director, on a form prescribed by the director, for an extension of…