2017 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 37A. Alcoholic Beverage
§37A-2-156. Restrictions on licenses and ownership interest in package stores - Spousal interests - Package store sales
Text effective Oct. 1, 2018. See, also, Title 37 for text effective until Oct. 1, 2018.
A. No retail spirits license shall be issued to a corporation, limited liability company or similar business entity. No person may own any interest in more than two package stores. For the purpose only of establishing whether or not a person owns an interest in more than one package store, any person having a beneficial interest in any package store shall be deemed to be a partner in the package store except that the spouse of any retail spirits license holder or partner shall not be deemed to be a partner or have a beneficial interest in a package store unless his or her name appears on the license. A beneficial interest shall be any interest that benefits from any sales or profits of the package store.
B. For purposes of this section, any spouse of a retail spirits license holder shall not hold another license provided for pursuant to the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, except a retail wine license, retail beer license, on-premises beer and wine license, mixed beverage license or a caterer's license.
C. Package stores licensed under the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act may sell only alcoholic beverages in retail containers as defined in Section 3 of this act, in the original package for consumption off the premises. All retail sales shall be made on the licensed premises and all deliveries off the premises, at retail, of intoxicating liquor or beer are hereby prohibited. Provided, a holder of a Retail Spirits License shall be permitted to sell at retail any item that may be purchased at a grocery store or convenience store, as defined by law, except for motor fuel, so long as the sale of items other than alcoholic beverages do not comprise more than twenty percent (20%) of the holder's monthly sales.
Added by Laws 2016, c. 366, § 68, 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.
