Arkansas Code
Subchapter 2 - Alcoholic Beverages Generally
§ 3-9-202. Definitions

As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) “Alcoholic beverages” means all intoxicating liquors of any sort, other than beer and wine as described and regulated in §§ 3-5-301 — 3-5-307, and 3-9-301 et seq., respectively;
(2) “Bed and breakfast private club” means a corporation, partnership, individual, or limited liability corporation whose primary function is to provide overnight accommodations to the public, not exceeding a total of twenty (20) guest rooms on the premises, whether operated by the business owner or not, where the owner or a person representing the owner lives on the premises, where a breakfast meal is served to the lodging guest, and where no restaurant on the premises is open to the public except for the lodging guest;
(3) “Board” means the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of this state, or its successor agency;
(4) “City” means any city of the first class or city of the second class in this state;
(5) “Director” means the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division;
(6) “Dry area” means any area in which the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquor is prohibited by a local option election heretofore or hereafter held pursuant to the Initiated Act;
(7) “Guest” means a person who orders and is served a meal inside a restaurant during regular hours;
(8) “Hotel” means every building or other structure commonly referred to as a hotel, motel, motor hotel, motor lodge, or by similar name, which is kept, used, maintained, advertised, and held out to the public to be a place where food is actually served and consumed and sleeping accommodations are offered for adequate pay to travelers or guests, whether transient, permanent, or residential, in which fifty (50) or more rooms are used for the sleeping accommodations of such guests, and having one (1) or more public dining rooms with adequate and sanitary kitchen facilities, and a seating capacity for at least fifty (50) persons, where meals are regularly served to such guests, such sleeping accommodations and dining room being conducted in the same building or in separate buildings or structures used in connection therewith that are on the same premises and are a part of the hotel operation;
(9) “Initiated Act” means Initiated Act No. 1 of 1942, as amended, §§ 3-8-201 — 3-8-203 and 3-8-205 — 3-8-209, which establishes the procedure for local option elections to prohibit the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquor;
(10) “Large event facility” means a facility that houses convention center activity, tourism activity, trade show and product display and related meeting activity, or any other similar large meeting or attendance activity and that either itself or through one (1) or more independent contractors complies with all of the following:
(A) Serves full and complete meals and food on the premises;
(B) Has one (1) or more places for food service on the premises with a seating capacity for not fewer than five hundred (500) people; and
(C) Employs a sufficient number and kind of employees to serve meals and food on the premises capable of handling at least five hundred (500) people;

(11) “Meal” means the usual assortment of food commonly ordered at various hours of the day;
(12) “On-premises consumption” means the sale of alcoholic beverages by the drink or in broken or unsealed containers for consumption on the premises where sold;
(13) “Person” means any natural person, partnership, association, or corporation;
(14)
(A)
(i) “Private club” means a nonprofit corporation organized and existing under the laws of this state, no part of the net revenues of which shall inure directly or indirectly to the benefit of any of its members or any other individual, except for the payment of bona fide expenses of the club's operations, and which is conducted for some common recreational, social, patriotic, political, national, benevolent, athletic, community hospitality, professional association, entertainment, or other nonprofit object or purpose other than the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
(ii) The nonprofit corporation shall have been in existence for a period of not less than one (1) year before applying for a permit, as prescribed in this subchapter.
(iii) At the time of application for the permit, the nonprofit corporation must have not fewer than one hundred (100) members and at the time of application must own or lease, be the holder of a buy-sell agreement or offer and acceptance, or have an option to lease a building, property, or space therein for the reasonable comfort and accommodation of its members and their families and guests and restrict the use of club facilities to those persons.

(B) For purposes of this subdivision (14), a person shall be required to become a member of the private club in any wet area of the state only upon ordering an alcoholic beverage as defined under subdivision (1) of this section.
(C) Furthermore, where the business entity that holds a private club permit additionally holds a retail beer permit, retail wine for consumption on the premises permit, or cafe or restaurant wine permit, the hours of operation authorized for the private club shall likewise apply to all permits of the business entity;

(15) “Referendum election” means an election held as provided in this subchapter, at which the electors of a city or county shall vote on the question of authorizing, as provided herein, the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption in those areas of the city or county in which the lawful sale of alcoholic beverages has not been prohibited by a local option election held pursuant to the Initiated Act; and
(16) “Restaurant” means any public or private place:
(A)
(i) That is primarily engaged in the business of serving a meal for consumption on the premises to a guest and has a suitable kitchen facility to serve the entire menu approved by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division.
(ii) The menu shall contain a selection of food and shall not be limited to sandwiches or salads.
(iii) The kitchen shall:
(a) Have adequate refrigeration to preserve the food on the menu;
(b) Be kept in a sanitary condition; and
(c) Comply with the rules of the Department of Health.

(iv) Food from the menu shall be available from opening time until two (2) hours before closing time; or

(B)
(i) That qualifies as a “large meeting or attendance facility”, which is defined, without limitation, as a facility housing convention center activity, tourism activity, trade show and product display and related meeting activity, or any other similar large meeting or attendance activity and which either itself or through one (1) or more independent contractors complies with all of the following:
(a) Actually serves full and complete meals and food on the premises;
(b) Has one (1) or more places for food service on the premises with a seating capacity for not fewer than five hundred (500) people;
(c) Employs a sufficient number and kind of employees to serve meals and food on the premises capable of handling at least five hundred (500) people; and
(d) Serves alcoholic beverages on the premises at one (1) or more places only on days that meals and food are served at one (1) or more places on the premises.

(ii)
(a) Any on-premises restaurant permittee as licensed by subdivision (16)(A) of this section and any hotel or motel on-premises permittee as licensed by subdivision (8) of this section shall be allowed to serve alcoholic beverages purchased under its permit at any large meeting or attendance facility which is licensed under this subdivision (16)(B). Hotel, motel, and restaurant permittees may serve alcoholic beverages purchased under their permits only when they have first secured written permission from the permittee of the large meeting or attendance facility. Otherwise, alcoholic beverage service at the large meeting or attendance facility shall be from inventory purchased by the large meeting or attendance facility permittee.
(b) Written permission shall not be granted for more than a five-day period. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Division shall be given a copy of any such written agreement. Any violations which occur while such permission is being used shall lie against the hotel, motel, or restaurant using such permission.
(c) Any hotel, motel, or restaurant that serves its alcoholic beverages at a large meeting or attendance facility shall only do so pursuant to a satellite catering permit to be issued by the division for an annual fee of five hundred dollars ($500) per fiscal year or part thereof. The permit shall be applied for on forms as prescribed by the board.
(d) The board shall promulgate such rules as it deems necessary to implement subdivisions (16)(B)(ii)(a) -(c) of this section.

(iii) When a large attendance facilities permit has been issued to a government-owned facility located in a county that has a population of more than one hundred fifty-five thousand (155,000) according to the 2000 Federal Decennial Census, Arkansas-licensed beer wholesalers shall be allowed to pay for advertising devices used at the government-owned facility. Such advertising devices shall include items such as inside or outside signs, scoreboards, programs, scorecards, and the like. Provided, if such advertising by the beer wholesaler results in the formation or existence of an exclusive buying arrangement by the large attendance facilities permittee and the wholesaler who furnishes such items, then such an exclusive buying arrangement will be a violation of the large attendance facilities permit and the wholesale beer permit involved even if the arrangements are caused by third parties. To the extent that § 3-5-214 or any other law could be interpreted to preclude such advertising arrangements allowed in this subdivision (16)(B)(iii), they are held inapplicable.
(iv)
(a) When a large attendance facilities permit has been issued to a facility owned or operated by the owner of a professional sports team franchised by Minor League Baseball and within a county that has a population of more than one hundred fifty-five thousand (155,000) according to the 2000 Federal Decennial Census, the operator of the facility may accept sponsorship funds, advertising items, or promotional items from licensed beer wholesalers. Promotional items shall include items used by the facility to promote attendance.
(b) However, if the use of sponsorship funds, advertising items, or promotional items by the beer wholesaler results in the formation or existence of an exclusive buying arrangement by the large attendance facilities permittee and the wholesaler who furnishes the sponsorship funds, advertising items, or promotional items, then the exclusive buying arrangement will be a violation of the large attendance facilities permit and the wholesaler's wholesale beer permit even if the arrangements are caused by third parties.
(c) Section 3-5-214 or any other law that could be interpreted to preclude arrangements to use the sponsorship funds, advertising items, or promotional items allowed in this subdivision (16)(B)(iv) shall not apply to this subdivision (16)(B)(iv).