2017 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 60 - Business Licenses
Article 7A - Offenses
Section 60-7A-12 - Offenses by dispensers, canopy licensees, restaurant licensees, governmental licensees or their lessees and clubs.

60-7A-12. Offenses by dispensers, canopy licensees, restaurant licensees, governmental licensees or their lessees and clubs.

It is a violation of the Liquor Control Act for any dispenser, canopy licensee, restaurant licensee, governmental licensee or its lessee or club to:

A. receive any alcoholic beverages for the purpose or with the intent of reselling the alcoholic beverages from any person unless the person is duly licensed to sell alcoholic beverages to dispensers for resale;

B. sell; possess for the purpose of sale; or bottle bulk wine for sale other than by the drink for immediate consumption on its licensed premises;

C. directly, indirectly or through subterfuge, own, operate or control any interest in a wholesale liquor establishment or liquor manufacturing or wine bottling firm; provided that this section shall not prevent:

(1) a dispenser from owning an interest in a legal entity, directly or indirectly or through an affiliate, that wholesales alcoholic beverages and that operates or controls an interest in an establishment operating pursuant to the provisions of Subsection B of Section 60-7A-10 NMSA 1978; or

(2) a small brewer or winegrower licensed pursuant to the Domestic Winery, Small Brewery and Craft Distillery Act from holding an interest in a legal entity, directly or indirectly or through an affiliate, that holds a restaurant or a dispenser's license and a small brewer and winegrower limited wholesaler's license issued pursuant to the Liquor Control Act;

D. sell or possess for the purpose of sale any alcoholic beverages at any location or place except its licensed premises or the location permitted pursuant to the provisions of Section 60-6A-12 NMSA 1978;

E. employ or engage a person to sell, serve or dispense alcoholic beverages if the person has not received alcohol server training within thirty days of employment; or

F. employ or engage a person to sell, serve or dispense alcoholic beverages during a period when the server permit of that person is suspended or revoked.

History: Laws 1981, ch. 39, 78; 1991, ch. 5, 2; 1999, ch. 277, 14; 2000, ch. 46, 2; 2015, ch. 113, 1.