2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors
Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act
Section 30-26 - Tavern permit. Sale of draught beer in sealed containers for off-premises consumption.

A tavern permit shall allow the retail sale of beer and of cider not exceeding six per cent of alcohol by volume and wine to be consumed on the premises of a tavern with or without the sale of food. “Tavern” means a place where beer and wine are sold under a tavern permit. Such permit shall also authorize the sale at retail from the premises of sealed containers supplied by the permittee of draught beer for consumption off the premises. Such sales shall be conducted only during the hours a package store is permitted to sell alcoholic liquor under the provisions of subsection (d) of section 30-91. Not more than four liters of such beer shall be sold to any person on any day on which the sale of alcoholic liquor is authorized under the provisions of subsection (d) of section 30-91. The annual fee for a tavern permit shall be three hundred dollars.

(1949 Rev., S. 4246; 1951, S. 2160d; 1969, P.A. 349, S. 3; 1972, P.A. 233, S. 3; P.A. 80-198, S. 3; P.A. 93-139, S. 25; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 344; P.A. 15-244, S. 80.)

History: 1969 act deleted prohibition which had forbidden women to sell liquor at bars and allowed women not engaged in sales to sit at bar where previously they had been forbidden to “sit or stand” at bars; 1972 act deleted discriminatory provision re women standing at bars; P.A. 80-198 permitted sale of wine under tavern permit; P.A. 93-139 added the definition of “tavern” and added the annual fee for a tavern permit; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 increased fee from $240 to $300; P.A. 15-244 added provision re sale of draught beer in sealed containers for consumption off premises, effective July 1, 2015.

Only as to beer is public sale for consumption on the premises permitted as a principal business. 121 C. 443. Cited. 133 C. 151; 184 C. 75; 195 C. 18.