Title 3, Title 3 Beverages

Every club on demand of the department shall file with it a list of the names and addresses of its members, directors, officers, agents and employees and any other information with respect to its affairs that the department shall require.

A retailer’s Class E license authorizes a person entitled to retail, compound, and dispense medicines and poisons to keep for sale and to sell at the place described in the license, beverages not to exceed one quart each for medicinal purposes and only upon the prescription of a …

(a) A retailer’s Class F license authorizes the holder of the license to keep for sale and to sell malt and vinous beverages on the premises, described in the license, at retail for consumption on the premises where sold for a period of nineteen (19) hours, including Sunday. The …

(a) A retailer’s Class F-1 license authorizes the holder of the license to keep for sale and to sell alcoholic beverages on the premises, described in the license, at retail for consumption on the premises where sold for a period of nineteen (19) hours, including Sunday. The lice…

(a) A caterer licensed by the department of health and the division of taxation shall be eligible to apply for a Class P license from the department of business regulation. The department of business regulation is authorized to issue all caterers’ licenses. The license will be va…

(a) A retailer’s license, class F-2, shall authorize the holder to keep for sale by auction alcoholic beverages on the premises or by televised auction for a specifically designated period, not to exceed three (3) days. (b) The license may be issued to religious organizations, Rh…

(a) A Class G retailer’s license shall be issued only to any dining car company, sleeping car company, parlor car company, and railroad company operating in this state, or any company operating passenger-carrying marine vessels in this state, or any airline operating in this stat…

(a) A retailer’s Class GD license, upon application, shall be issued only to an operator of a vessel engaged in regular interstate commerce, providing overnight accommodations for passengers. (b) The holder of a Class GD license is permitted to keep for sale and to serve alcoholi…

(a) A retailer’s Class J license authorizes the holder of the license to keep for sale and to sell beverages at retail in the place described in the license and to deliver the beverages for consumption on the premises where sold at the times when conventions as defined in subsect…

Notwithstanding any provision of this title to the contrary, the local licensing board has the power to grant and may grant on request an ancient underground comfort station license. The license may be granted to the owner, lessee or other person, firm or corporation in possessio…

A city or town may issue a Special Events (SE) license that shall allow any retail business not otherwise licensed in this chapter or affiliated with any entity licensed in this chapter or nonprofit organization to offer alcoholic beverages for sale at retail at, or as part of th…

(a) The local licensing board has the power to grant and may grant on request by the legal owners of any building which has had a public and continuous use and license as a tavern for ten (10) years or more prior to 1730 A.D. (and which building is located on the same spot where …

(a) Legitimate theaters as defined in subsection (b) or subsection (c) may apply for a Class T license. The license authorizes the holder of the license to keep for sale and to sell beverages at retail in the place described in the license and to deliver those beverages for consu…

(a) The holder of a retail Class ED license must be situated within a defined economic development zone within the city of Providence. The city may designate by ordinance an ED zone for the purpose of encouraging commercial and industrial investment. These zones or zone must cons…

Notwithstanding any provision of this title to the contrary, the local licensing board of the Town of North Providence has the power to grant and may grant on request, a license for the retail sale of alcoholic beverages at such location on Mineral Spring Avenue between Woodward …

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this title to the contrary, any town or city council, by ordinance, may authorize the licensing authorities designated as having the right, power, and jurisdiction to issue licenses under this title pursuant to § 3-5-15 to designate and issue …

A retailer’s Class AS license may be issued within the state by the local licensing authority and authorizes the licensee to sell at retail, wines purchased from a Rhode Island licensed wholesaler, to be used for sacramental purposes only, to any duly ordained priest, minister or…

In addition to the licenses provided for in this chapter, the board of licenses of the city of Providence is authorized to establish and issue the following license. Before granting a license to any person under the provisions of § 3-7-16.8, the board of licenses of the city of P…

(a) A retailer’s Class WB license authorizes the holder of the license to purchase from a licensed wholesaler a minimum of five hundred (500) gallons of wine, up to a maximum of two thousand (2,000) gallons of wine per year, for use in the wholesale manufacture of wine biscuits. …

Where it is provided that a license fee shall be from a minimum to a maximum sum, the amount within those limits shall be fixed in the discretion of the issuing body, but in any city or town the fee for retailers’ licenses shall be uniform in every class.

All holders of retail licenses except retail Class G licenses shall purchase beverages for sale under their licenses only from the holder or holders of wholesale licenses under this title.

(a) Retailers’ Class B, C, N and I licenses, and any license provided for in § 3-7-16.8, shall not be issued to authorize the sale of beverages in any building where the owner of the greater part of the land within two hundred feet (200′) of any point of the building files with t…

(a) Upon the application of any petitioner for a license, or of any person authorized to protest against the granting of a license, including those persons granted standing pursuant to § 3-5-19, or upon the application of any licensee whose license has been revoked or suspended b…

(a) Except as otherwise provided, it shall be unlawful for any holder of a manufacturer’s or wholesaler’s license to have any direct or indirect interest in any retailer’s license or in the business carried on under a retailer’s license. If by operation of law the holder of a man…

The following closing hours shall be observed by all Class A license holders: (1) November 1 to May 31. No holder of a Class A license shall sell or deliver beverage under that license between the hours of ten o’clock (10:00) p.m. and seven o’clock (7:00) a.m. (local time), excep…

Every licensee under this chapter, upon filing an application for renewal or transfer of a license, shall submit with the application a certificate executed by the tax administrator, or some employee designated by the tax administrator, that taxes due the state have been paid. Fo…

(a) Beer or wine pipe lines, faucets and barrel-tapping devices used for the dispensing of malt beverages or wine in places where the dispensing is carried on by licensees under this chapter shall be cleaned at least once every four (4) weeks by the use of a hydraulic pressure me…

(a) No licensee, employee or agent of any licensee who operates under a license to sell alcoholic beverages shall: (1) Cause or require any person or persons to buy more than one drink at a time by reducing the price of that drink; (2) Increase the volume of alcohol contained in …

(a) In the town of Burrillville, an applicant for a license under this chapter shall file with the application a certificate of insurance evidencing commercial, general-liability and property-damage coverage in the minimum amount of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000); or f…

(a) Holders of Class A licenses issued under title 3 of the general laws shall be required to maintain on the premises, and to produce upon demand by an inspector authorized to demand, any and all records of receipts and invoices for the purchase of alcoholic beverages. (b) Holde…

Any applicant or holder of any retail license for the sale of alcoholic beverages issued pursuant to this chapter, except those applicants for or holders of class F liquor licenses or class AS liquor licenses and except as provided in § 3-7-27, shall file with the application a c…

(a) In cities and towns having a population of ten thousand (10,000) or more inhabitants, a retailer’s Class A license authorizes the holder to keep for sale and to sell, at the place described, beverages at retail and to deliver the beverages in a sealed package or container, wh…

One retailer’s Class AT license may be issued within the state, by the local licensing authority of the city of Warwick to one person. This person shall be a lessee of retail space at the state airport found within the city of Warwick and this license authorizes the holder to kee…

(a) Retailer’s Class A licenses under this chapter shall not be issued to authorize the sale of beverages in any store or place within two hundred feet (200′) measured by any public way of another premises holding a Class A license. Licenses presently issued to premises within tw…

Any holder of a Class A retail license shall be permitted to conduct at no charge to the consumer, inside the premises of the licensee, sample tastings of wine (under 13% alcohol by volume), beer (under 5.5% alcohol by volume), and distilled spirits available for purchase from th…

It is permissible for the holder of a retailer’s Class E license to hold a retailer’s Class A license. No Class A license shall be granted to a holder of a Class E license unless the holder of a Class E license maintains, operates, manages, or conducts a drugstore. The drugstore …

The holder of a Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D, Class E, or Class J license who applies before October 1 in any licensing period for a license of the same class for the next succeeding licensing period is prima facie entitled to renewal to the extent that the license is issua…

(a) The holder of a Class B, Class C, Class D, Class J, Class N or Class P license who applies before October 1, in any licensing period, for a license of the same class for the next succeeding licensing period shall, prior to filing said application, demonstrate that he or she h…

(a)(1) A retailer’s Class B license is issued only to a licensed bona fide tavern keeper or victualer whose tavern or victualing house may be open for business and regularly patronized at least from nine o’clock (9:00) a.m. to seven o’clock (7:00) p.m. provided no beverage is sol…

(a) A retailer’s Class B-H license shall be issued only to a licensed hotel. The license authorizes the holder to keep for sale and sell beverages in containers of a minimum capacity of fifty milliliters (50 ml.) or one and seven tenths ounces (1.7 oz). The beverages shall be sol…

(a) A manufacturer’s brewpub Class B-M license shall be issued only to a holder of a manufacturer’s license as described in § 3-6-1. The license shall not authorize the retail sale of beverages from any location other than at the location stated in the manufacturer’s license for …

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or in the Rhode Island general laws to the contrary, in the case of any city or town that issues any retailer’s Class B license, this city or town may restrict or prohibit entertainment at these licensed facilities, in accordance …

(a) A brew on premises license (BOP) authorizes the holder to provide brewing supplies and facilities to the public for the private manufacture of malt beverages on the licensed premises. The BOP license shall not authorize the sale of malt beverage to the general public on the p…

Notwithstanding the provisions to the contrary of § 3-7-7 or any other statute, rule, or regulation, the Westerly town council and/or the Westerly licensing board may continue to issue a Class B tavern license to “The Weekapaug Inn” during the period of its renovation when such l…

(a) A Class B-C license shall be issued only to a holder of a gaming and entertainment license that is authorized to operate twenty-four (24) hours a day. (b) The license authorizes the holder to keep for sale and sell beverages, including beer in cans, at retail at the place des…

Notwithstanding the provisions to the contrary of § 3-7-7 or any other statute, rule, or regulation, the Smithfield town council and/or the Smithfield licensing board may issue a Class B tavern license for the premises shown on the maps of the tax assessor of the town of Smithfie…