MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2021 Regular Session
To: Ways and Means
By: Representatives Lamar, Crawford
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 67-1-83, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO DELETE THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE IMMEDIATELY REVOKE THE PERMIT OF A PERMITTEE WHO VIOLATES SUCH SECTION'S PROHIBITIONS AGAINST SELLING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES TO CERTAIN PERSONS OR AT CERTAIN TIMES; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 67-1-83, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
67-1-83. (1) It shall be
unlawful for any permittee or * * * any employee or agent thereof
to sell or furnish any alcoholic beverage to any person who is visibly
intoxicated, or to any person who is known to habitually drink alcoholic
beverages to excess, or to any person who is known to be an habitual user of
narcotics or other habit-forming drugs. It shall also be unlawful for the
holder of any package retailer's permit to sell any alcoholic beverages except
by delivery in person to the purchaser at the place of business of the
permittee.
(2) It shall be unlawful
for any permittee or * * * any employee or agent thereof to sell or furnish any
alcoholic beverage to any person to whom the * * * department has, after
investigation, decided to prohibit the sale of those beverages because of an
appeal to the * * *
department so to do by the husband, wife, father, mother, brother,
sister, child, or employer of the person. The interdiction in those cases
shall last until removed by the * * * department, but no person shall
be held to have violated this subsection unless he has been informed by the * * * department, by registered
letter, that it is forbidden to sell to that individual or unless that fact is
otherwise known to the permittee or * * * any employee or agent thereof.
(3) It shall be unlawful for any holder of a package retailer's permit, or any employee or agent thereof, engaged solely in the business of package retail sales under this chapter to sell or furnish any alcoholic beverage before 10:00 a.m. and after 10:00 p.m. or to sell alcoholic beverages on Sunday and Christmas Day.
(4) Any person who violates
any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and,
upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars
($500.00) or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not more than six
(6) months, or by both that fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of
the court. * * *
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2021.