MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2020 Regular Session

To: Tourism; Finance

By: Senator(s) Moran (By Request)

Senate Bill 2304

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 67-1-83, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO ALLOW PACKAGE RETAIL SALES ON SUNDAYS; 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 other person 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 other person to sell or furnish any alcoholic beverage to any person to whom the * * * commission department has, after investigation, decided to prohibit the sale of those beverages because of an appeal to the * * * commission 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 * * * commission department, but no person shall be held to have violated this subsection unless he has been informed by the * * * commission department, by registered letter, that it is forbidden to sell to that individual or unless that fact is otherwise known to the permittee or other person.

     (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.  In addition, the * * * commission department shall immediately revoke the permit of any permittee who violates the provisions of this section.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2020.