2017 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 37A. Alcoholic Beverage
§37A-2-121. Employee license

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

An employee license shall authorize the holder thereof to work in a licensed package store, retail spirits, retail wine or retail beer establishment, brewpub, mixed beverage establishment, beer and wine establishment, bottle club, public event or any establishment where alcohol or alcoholic beverages are sold, mixed or served. Persons employed by a mixed beverage, on-premises beer and wine, retail wine, retail beer, public event or a bottle club licensee who do not participate in the service, mixing or sale of mixed beverages shall not be required to have an employee license. Provided, however, that a manager employed by a mixed beverage licensee, public event licensee or a bottle club shall be required to have an employee license whether or not the manager participates in the service, mixing or sale of mixed beverages. Applicants for an employee license must be at least eighteen (18) years of age and have a health card issued by the county in which they are employed, if the county issues such a card; provided, the provisions of this section shall not be construed to permit any person under twenty-one (21) years of age to be employed to sell spirits. Employees of a special event, caterer, unless catering a mixed beverage-licensed premise or airline/railroad beverage licensees shall not be required to obtain an employee license. Persons employed by a hotel licensee who participate in the stocking of hotel room mini-bars or in the handling of alcoholic beverages to be placed in such devices shall be required to have an employee license. As a prerequisite to the issuance of an employee license, the applicant shall be required to have successfully completed a training program conducted by the ABLE Commission, or by another entity approved by the ABLE Commission, including an in-house training program conducted by the employer.

Added by Laws 2016, c. 366, § 33, 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.