Title 3, Title 3 Beverages

(a) A manufacturer’s license authorizes the holder to establish and operate a brewery, distillery, or winery at the place described in the license for the manufacture of beverages within this state. The license does not authorize more than one of the activities of operator of a b…

(a) For the purpose of encouraging the development of domestic vineyards, the department shall issue a farmer-winery license to any applicant of the state and to applying partnerships and to applying corporations organized under the laws of any other state of the United States an…

(a) A brewpub manufacturer’s license shall authorize the holder to establish and operate a brewpub within this state. The brewpub manufacturer’s license shall authorize the retail sale of the beverages manufactured on the location for consumption on the premises. The license shal…

(a) A wholesaler’s license, Class B, authorizes the holder to keep for sale and to sell malt and vinous beverages and distilled spirits at wholesale, at the place described in the license, to holders of licenses under this title within this state and to holders of wholesale licen…

A wholesaler’s Class C license authorizes the holder to manufacture, transport, import, export, deliver, and sell alcohol for mechanical, manufacturing, medicinal, or chemical purposes only, or to any registered pharmacist, licensed pharmacy, drug store, or apothecary shop, or to…

Any person who represents a distillery, winery, or brewery is deemed and taken to be acting as an agent for and on behalf of that distillery, winery, or brewery, and is required to have received from the department a license to act as an agent. The annual fee for that license is …

(a) As conditions precedent to transporting, or causing to be transported, distilled spirits, malt beverages, and vinous beverages into this state for storage, sale, or consumption in this state, any person, firm, or corporation located in another state shall first obtain a certi…

(a) No holder of a certificate of compliance for distilled spirits or vinous beverages shall ship, transport, or deliver within this state, or sell or offer for sale, to a wholesaler, any brand of distilled spirits or vinous beverages at a bottle or case price higher than the low…

No manufacturer of distilled spirits or wines whose principal place of manufacture is outside of this state shall hold a wholesaler’s license issued under this title or shall have any interest in a wholesaler’s license, either directly or indirectly, as an owner or part owner, or…

(a) The holders of wholesale licenses in this state shall purchase beverages only from the distillery, rectifier, winery or brewery manufacturing the beverages or from the importer holding the basic contract with a foreign supplier whereby that foreign supplier exports distilled …

A violation of any provision of this chapter is punishable, upon conviction, by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or imprisonment for not more than ninety (90) days.

If the holder of a manufacturer’s license obtains a rectifier’s license or another type of manufacturer’s license for further operations at the same premises, the department will waive the license fee for the additional license.

With a view to the enforcement of the provisions of this title, and of the conditions, rules and regulations established and authorized by the department pertaining to rectifiers and those regarded as being in the business of rectifying, the business of manufacturing beverages ma…

The department is authorized to issue rectifiers’ licenses in accordance with the provisions of §§ 3-6-4 — 3-6-8. The fee provided shall be prorated to the year ending December 1 in every calendar year and be paid to the general treasurer for the use of the state.

Any person who rectifies, purifies, refines or blends distilled spirits or wines by any process, other than by original and continuous distillation from mash, wort, or wash, through continuous closed vessels and pipes until the manufacture is complete, and every wholesale or reta…

A rectifier’s license authorizes the holder to engage in the business of rectifying and blending at the place described for the rectifying, purifying, refining, blending, warehousing and bottling of distilled spirits and wines within this state by any process other than by origin…

A rectifier’s license also authorizes the license holder to bottle distilled spirits and wines without rectifying or blending and authorizes the sale at wholesale at the licensed place by the rectifier of the distilled spirits and wines rectified, blended, warehoused or bottled a…

The annual fee for a rectifier’s license is five hundred dollars ($500). The fee is prorated to the year ending December 1 in each calendar year.

The department of business regulation has general supervision of the conduct of the business of rectifying, and the right, power and jurisdiction to issue a rectifier’s license is solely in that department.

A wholesaler’s license, Class A, authorizes the holder to keep for sale and to sell malt beverages and wines at wholesale at the place described to holders of licenses under this title within this state and to holders of wholesale licenses in other states and the transportation a…

In cities and towns having a population of less than ten thousand (10,000) 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, which …

If at the time of or after the issue of any Class C license, the place licensed shall have an opening from within the licensed place into any other part of the same structure or into any adjoining structure, the license shall be void. A sale, by any person holding any class of li…

A retailer’s Class D license shall be issued only to a club or to any corporation organized prior to the year 1900 for purposes similar to those set forth in chapter 6 of title 7, and which has held a Class D license for at least ten (10) consecutive years prior to July 1, 1993, …

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of § 3-7-11, a club possessing a Class D or B-V (a class B license holder operating as a victualer) license and operating a golf course may, in addition to the place described in such license, be authorized to sell alcoholic beverages to its mem…

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…