2017 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 37A. Alcoholic Beverage
§37A-6-109. Prohibited acts of mixed beverage, beer and wine, bottle club, caterer, charitable event, public event or special event licensees or employee, manager, operator or agent thereof

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

No mixed beverage, beer and wine, bottle club, caterer, charitable event, public event or special event licensee or any employee, manager, operator or agent thereof shall:

1. Consume or be under the influence of alcoholic beverages during the hours he or she is on duty. For the purposes of this section, licensees will be deemed to be on duty from the time the licensee first comes on duty until the time the licensee goes off duty at the end of the shift, including any break periods permitted by management. This paragraph shall not apply to any person who works on the premises as an entertainer only;

2. Permit or tolerate any conduct or language which is intended to threaten another with physical harm or any fighting or offensive physical contact, in or upon the licensed premises or areas just outside the licensed premises which are controlled by the licensee;

3. Permit empty or discarded alcoholic beverage containers to be in public view outside the licensed premises. All empty or discarded containers shall be disposed of in accordance with ABLE Commission rules and regulations;

4. Permit any illegal gambling activity, violations of the state narcotic and dangerous drug laws, prostitution activity or any other criminal conduct to occur on the licensed premises;

5. Refuse or fail to promptly open a door to the licensed premises upon request of an employee of the ABLE Commission or any other peace officer to enter the premises when the licensee or employee knows or should know that such request is made by an employee of the ABLE Commission or a peace officer. This provision shall not be construed to deny employees of the ABLE Commission or peace officers access at any time to any licensed premises;

6. Permit a sealed or unsealed container of alcoholic beverage to be removed from the licensed premises. Provided, that restaurants, hotels and motels may permit the removal of closed original wine containers the contents of which have been partially consumed and bottle clubs may permit the removal by a club member of closed original containers of alcoholic beverages belonging to members. The provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to prohibit or restrict:

a.hotels or motels who are holders of mixed beverage or on-premises beer and wine licenses from allowing alcoholic beverages to be served away from the bar area anywhere on the licensed premises, or

b.licensees, who are lawfully operating at an event held in a facility owned or operated by any agency, political subdivision or public trust of this state, from allowing persons to transport alcoholic beverages from one licensed premises to another within the same building, provided that the building or a part thereof is defined as a common drinking area for consumption of alcohol by resolution of the governing body of the agency, political subdivision or public trust of this state; or

7. Destroy, damage, alter, remove or conceal potential evidence, or attempt to do so, or refuse to surrender evidence when lawfully requested to do so by an inspector, agent or any other peace officer or incite another person to do any of the above.

Added by Laws 2016, c. 366, § 149, 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.