2017 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 37A. Alcoholic Beverage
§37A-2-117. Hotel beverage license - Rules and restrictions

Text effective Oct. 1, 2018. See, also, Title 37 for text effective until Oct. 1, 2018.

A. A hotel beverage license may be issued to a hotel or motel which is also the holder of a mixed beverage license. Provided, that application may be made simultaneously for both such licenses.

B. The ABLE Commission shall promulgate rules governing the application for and the issuance of hotel beverage licenses.

C. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, a hotel may sell alcoholic beverages to its registered guests by means of a mini-bar located in the guestrooms of those registered guests; provided:

1. Access to any mini-bar shall only be by a key, magnetic card or similar device;

2. Access to a mini-bar in a particular guestroom is provided, whether by furnishing a key, magnetic card or similar device only to a registered guest over twenty-one (21) years of age registered to stay in the guestroom;

3. The licensee shall verify that each registered guest to whom a key, magnetic card or similar device to access a mini-bar is to be provided is over twenty-one (21) years of age; and

4. All employees handling the alcoholic beverages to be placed in the mini-bar possess an employee license issued by the ABLE Commission.

Added by Laws 2016, c. 366, § 29, eff. Oct. 1, 2018.

NOTE: This section shall become effective October 1, 2018, upon certification of election returns favoring passage of the Constitutional Amendment proposed in Senate Joint Resolution No. 68 of the 2nd Session of the 55th Oklahoma Legislature.