4-205.06. Hotel or motel minibars; rules; definitions
A. Notwithstanding any other statute, a hotel or motel may sell spirituous liquor in sealed containers in individual portions to its registered guests at any time by means of a minibar located in the guest rooms of those registered guests, if all of the following conditions are met:
1. Before providing a key, magnetic card or other similar device required to attain access to the minibar in a particular guest room to the registered guest, or before otherwise providing access to the minibar to the registered guest, the licensee verifies that each registered guest to whom a key, magnetic card or similar device is provided or to whom access is otherwise provided is not a person under the legal drinking age.
2. All employees handling the spirituous liquors to be placed in the minibar in any guest room, including an employee who inventories or restocks and replenishes the spirituous liquors in the minibar, are at least eighteen years of age.
3. The minibar is not replenished or restocked with spirituous liquor between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.
4. The minibar is located on the premises of a person who has been issued an on-sale retailer's license.
5. The minibar contains no more than thirty individual portions of spirituous liquor at any one time.
B. A minibar may be part of another cabinet or similar device, whether refrigerated in whole or in part or nonrefrigerated, from which nonalcoholic beverages or food may be purchased by the guests in hotel or motel guest rooms. The portion of the cabinet or similar device in which spirituous liquors are stored shall comply with the requirements of this section.
C. The director may prescribe rules to regulate the use of a minibar including rules on the size of containers of spirituous liquors and may by rule reduce from thirty the number of containers of spirituous liquor placed in the minibar.
D. For the purposes of this section:
1. " Hotel" or " motel" means an establishment that is licensed to sell spirituous liquors and that contains guest room accommodations with respect to which the predominant relationship existing between the occupants of the rooms and the owner or operator of the establishment is that of innkeeper and guest. For the purposes of this paragraph, the existence of other legal relationships as between some occupants and the owner or operator is immaterial.
2. " Minibar" means a closed container, either refrigerated in whole or in part or nonrefrigerated, where access to the interior is restricted by means of a locking device that requires the use of a key, magnetic card or similar device.
Structure Arizona Revised Statutes
§ 4-113 - Enforcement officer; credentials; peace officer status
§ 4-114 - Interest in business prohibited; forfeiture of office
§ 4-115 - Disposition of fees and penalties
§ 4-116 - Receipts from club licenses and applications
§ 4-116.01 - Receipts from sampling privilege and growler permits
§ 4-118 - Inspection of premises
§ 4-120 - Liquor licenses fund; exemption
§ 4-201 - Licensing; application procedure in city, town or county; burden of proof
§ 4-201.01 - Extending time limits
§ 4-202 - Qualifications of licensees; application; background information; prior convictions
§ 4-203 - Licenses; issuance; transfer; reversion to state
§ 4-203.01 - Interim permit; fee; rules
§ 4-203.02 - Special event license; rules
§ 4-203.03 - Farm winery festival license; farm winery fair license; fee
§ 4-203.05 - Licenses held in nonuse status
§ 4-203.06 - Mixed cocktails; off-sale privileges; leases; fees
§ 4-203.07 - Off-sale privileges; leases; mixed cocktails; permits; fees
§ 4-204 - Personal representative or fiduciary acting for licensee
§ 4-205 - Issuance of club license; regulatory provisions; revocation
§ 4-205.01 - Hotel-motel license; issuance; revocation
§ 4-205.04 - Farm winery license; issuance; regulatory provisions; retail site; fee
§ 4-205.05 - Disposal of seized or recovered liquor
§ 4-205.06 - Hotel or motel minibars; rules; definitions
§ 4-205.07 - Conveyance license for excursion boats
§ 4-205.08 - Microbrewery license; issuance; regulatory provisions; retail site
§ 4-205.09 - Microbrewery and farm winery licenses on same land; requirements
§ 4-205.10 - Craft distiller license; issuance; regulatory provisions; fee
§ 4-205.11 - Craft distillery festival license; craft distillery fair license; craft distillery fee
§ 4-205.12 - Tasting rooms with shared patios
§ 4-205.13 - Registered alcohol delivery contractor; issuance; fee; regulatory provisions
§ 4-207 - Restrictions on licensing premises near school buildings; definition
§ 4-207.02 - Multiple licensees with joint premises
§ 4-207.03 - Extended premises; application; requirements; fee
§ 4-208 - Rejection as to location
§ 4-210.01 - Authority to impose civil penalty; training
§ 4-210.02 - Appeals from director
§ 4-211 - Judicial review; bond
§ 4-214 - Arizona wines; labeling
§ 4-221 - Registration of stills; forfeiture; sale; proceeds
§ 4-222 - Registration of retail agents; fees
§ 4-224 - Local ordinances; prohibitions
§ 4-225 - Food safety; federal law; preemption
§ 4-227 - Qualified retail cooperatives; pricing; definitions
§ 4-227.01 - Channel pricing; definition
§ 4-228 - Front entrance lock prohibited; exception
§ 4-229 - Licenses; handguns; posting of notice
§ 4-242 - Sale of liquor on credit prohibited; exceptions
§ 4-243 - Commercial coercion or bribery unlawful; exceptions
§ 4-243.01 - Purchasing from other than primary source of supply unlawful; definitions
§ 4-243.02 - Sale of beer, wine or distilled spirits by producer; limitations
§ 4-243.03 - Alternating proprietorships
§ 4-243.04 - On-sale retail licensees; ownership interests; conditions
§ 4-244 - Unlawful acts; definition
§ 4-244.02 - Unlawful importation of spirituous liquor; exceptions
§ 4-244.04 - Farm winery sampling
§ 4-246 - Violation; classification; fine; civil penalty
§ 4-248 - Reporting by court of convictions; definition
§ 4-249 - Consumption of liquor by underage person in religious service allowed
§ 4-250 - Distilled spirits pricing; prohibition
§ 4-301 - Liability limitation; social host
§ 4-302 - Notice of litigation
§ 4-311 - Liability for serving intoxicated person or minor; definition