Title 3, Title 3 Beverages

(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…

(a) A retailer’s Class C license authorizes the holder of the license to keep for sale and to sell beverages at retail at the place described in the license and to deliver those beverages for consumption on the premises where sold. No beverages shall be sold or served after twelv…

Licenses issued under this title shall not authorize the sale or service of beverages on Sunday, nor on Christmas day excepting licensed taverns, clubs, victualing houses, and retail Class F licensed places when served with food to guests, and except in places operated under a re…

Any person who has not reached his or her twenty-first (21st) birthday and has in his or her possession any beverage as defined in this title shall be fined one hundred fifty dollars ($150) to seven hundred fifty dollars ($750) for the first offense, three hundred dollars ($300) …

(a) As used in this section: (1) “furnish” means to provide with, supply, give or purchase; (2) “procure” means to get possession of, obtain by particular care and effort; and (3) “permit” means to give permission for, or approval of, the possession or consumption of an alcoholic…

(a) Any person who violates § 3-8-11.1 and either pleads nolo contendere or is convicted of a first misdemeanor violation shall be punished by a fine of not less than three hundred fifty dollars ($350.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) and/or imprisoned for a peri…

It is no defense to a prosecution for a violation of § 3-8-11.2, that in the transaction upon which the prosecution is based, any person who has not reached his or her twenty-first (21st) birthday acted as the agent or representative of another, or that the defendant dealt with a…

Upon final conviction of any person who has not reached his or her twenty-first (21st) birthday of having used an altered or fraudulent driver’s license for the purposes of causing the sale to him, her, or another of alcoholic beverages, the clerk of the court having jurisdiction…

The court records of conviction of any person convicted of a violation of § 3-8-6, 3-8-9, or 3-8-10, while between the age of eighteen (18) to twenty-one (21) shall be expunged without the requirement of filing a motion pursuant to chapter 1.3 of title 12; provided, that all outs…

This chapter does not apply to a person who gives or causes to be given any alcoholic beverage to a student under the age of twenty-one (21) years, nor does this chapter apply to any of these students who receives any alcoholic beverage, if the beverage is delivered in a curricul…

The department of business regulation shall adopt rules and regulations authorizing the holders of Class B-V licenses issued pursuant to this title to sell aquardiente by the bottle, for consumption on the premises of the license holder because this beverage is generally purchase…

(a) Every retailer of kegs of beer shall affix a removable label to each keg of beer sold which shall contain the name, address, date of birth, type of identification document used to verify the date, and the last four (4) digits of the identification number of the document, of t…

(1) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or in the Rhode Island general laws to the contrary, a holder of a retailer’s Class B license shall be permitted to provide to a patron, and the patron shall be allowed to retain and remove from the premises and transport the rema…

(a) It is unlawful for a person, firm, or corporation to use, offer for use, purchase, offer to purchase, sell, offer to sell, or possess powdered alcohol, subject to the provisions of § 3-11-5. (b) This section shall not apply to the use of powdered alcohol for bona fide researc…

(a) It is unlawful for a person to use, offer for use, purchase, offer to purchase, sell, offer to sell, or possess an alcohol-without-liquid device as defined in § 3-1-1. (b) This section shall not apply to a healthcare provider that operates primarily for the purpose of conduct…

No person under the age of eighteen (18) may act as a bartender for the purposes of mixing, preparing, serving, or selling from a bar used for the purpose of dispensing beverages in any licensed establishment operating under a Class B-C-D-F or F1-G-J or K license.

Any licensee who violates, or permits to be violated, the provisions of § 3-8-2 is subject to the suspension of license for a period of at least three (3) calendar days for the first offense. If additional violations occur, the number of calendar days of suspension shall be deter…

(a) Use of a credit card for the purchase of beverages may be permitted by all classes of license holders and, notwithstanding the purchase of alcoholic beverages by credit card, license holders shall not sell or furnish beverages to any person who has not reached his or her twen…

Any person who sells or suffers to be sold or delivered any beverage to a person who has not reached his or her twenty-first (21st) birthday either for his or her own use or the use of his or her parents or any other person, or allows any person who has not reached his or her twe…

(a) As used in this section the term “compliance check” means the sending of a minor into a retail outlet to see if that minor could purchase alcohol. As used in this section the term “purchase survey” refers to compliance checks that are a part of a statewide survey. (b) Underag…

(a) It is unlawful for: (1) A person who has not reached his or her twenty-first (21st) birthday to enter any premises licensed for the retail sale of alcoholic beverages for the purpose of purchasing or having served or delivered to him or her alcoholic beverages; or (2) A perso…

(a)(1) The administrator of the division of motor vehicles shall issue to any person upon request, who is under twenty-one (21) years of age, an identification card upon payment of a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00), and, upon presentation of a certified birth or baptismal cer…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person: (1) To display or cause or permit to be displayed or have in his or her possession any cancelled, revoked, suspended, fictitious, or fraudulently altered official Rhode Island identification card; (2) To lend his or her Rhode Island identi…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture or distribute a fraudulent identification card, as defined in §§ 11-18-20.1 and 3-8-6, or a fraudulent license to operate a motor vehicle. (b) Each incident of manufacturing or distributing a fraudulent identification card or…

(a) Any person who has not reached his or her twenty-first (21st) birthday and who operates a motor vehicle upon the public highways, except when accompanied by a parent, legal guardian, or another adult who is over the age of twenty-one (21) years and related, whether by blood, …

The director of business regulation may appoint an assayer of liquors, who shall perform the duties required by this chapter.

No assayer appointed under this chapter shall accept any reward or gratuity from any person in any way engaged in the sale of liquors, and every assayer receiving a reward or gratuity shall be fined one hundred dollars ($100) or be imprisoned not exceeding three (3) months.