Indiana Code
Chapter 20. Clubs, Restaurants, and Hotels
7.1-3-20-23. Hotels; In-Room Vending Units

Sec. 23. (a) As used in this section, "in-room vending unit" means a closed container that is:
(1) located in a guest room of a hotel; and
(2) used for the storage and dispensing of food or beverage (alcoholic or nonalcoholic).
(b) The holder of a retailer's permit that is issued to a hotel may dispense alcoholic beverages in individual portions to registered hotel guests through in-room vending units.
(c) Access to the interior of an in-room vending unit must be:
(1) restricted by a locking device, the opening of which requires use of a key, magnetic card, or similar device; or
(2) controlled at all times by the holder of a retailer's permit that is issued to a hotel.
(d) Alcoholic beverages may be dispensed through in-room vending units only:
(1) on days and at times when the sale of alcoholic beverages is permitted under this title; and
(2) to persons who are permitted to purchase alcoholic beverages under this title.
(e) A permittee to whom this section applies may provide a key, magnetic card, or similar device required to gain access to the interior of an in-room vending unit only to a person who is:
(1) a registered hotel guest; and
(2) twenty-one (21) years of age or older.
(f) In order to prevent the illegal furnishing of an alcoholic beverage to a minor, a permittee to whom this section applies shall determine that the registered hotel guest is not a minor (as defined in IC 7.1-1-3-25) prior to providing a key, magnetic card, or similar device required to gain access to the interior of an in-room vending unit to that registered hotel guest.
(g) Each employee of a permittee to whom this section applies who handles alcoholic beverages for dispensing through an in-room vending unit must be twenty-one (21) years of age or older and hold an employee's permit issued by the commission under IC 7.1-3-18-9.
As added by P.L.102-1989, SEC.3. Amended by P.L.1-1990, SEC.88.

Structure Indiana Code

Indiana Code

Title 7.1. Alcohol and Tobacco

Article 3. Permits

Chapter 20. Clubs, Restaurants, and Hotels

7.1-3-20-0.1. Application of Certain Amendments to Chapter

7.1-3-20-1. Clubs; General Requirements

7.1-3-20-2. Clubs Within Corporate Limits

7.1-3-20-2.5. Repealed

7.1-3-20-3. Clubs Outside Corporate Limits

7.1-3-20-4. Clubs Outside Corporate Limits; Exception

7.1-3-20-5. Clubs; Two Locations

7.1-3-20-6. Member of a Club; Qualifications

7.1-3-20-7. Fraternal Clubs; Labor Organizations

7.1-3-20-8. Club; Enabling Ordinance Required

7.1-3-20-8.5. Discriminatory Practices

7.1-3-20-8.6. Club Guest Day

7.1-3-20-9. Restaurants; General Requirements

7.1-3-20-9.5. Restaurant Carryout Sales; Eligibility

7.1-3-20-9.6. Resealing Wine Bottle Purchased With Meal

7.1-3-20-10. Restaurants Within Corporate Limits

7.1-3-20-11. Restaurants; Unincorporated Town Exception

7.1-3-20-11.5. Restaurants; Small City Provision

7.1-3-20-12. Restaurants Outside Corporate Limits

7.1-3-20-13. New Restaurants Outside Corporate Limits

7.1-3-20-13.5. Public Restaurant at Golf Course or Tennis Club; Gross Food Sales Requirement

7.1-3-20-13.6. Golf Course Clubhouse; Sale From Golf Cart

7.1-3-20-14. Restaurants Outside Corporate Limits; Nonrenewals

7.1-3-20-15. Repealed

7.1-3-20-16. Restaurants; Airports; Certain Economic Development Areas; Redevelopment Projects or Districts; Historic River Vessels; Cultural Centers; Historic Districts; Motorsport Development Districts; Premises in Qualified Motorsports Facilities

7.1-3-20-16.1. Municipal Riverfront Development Project; Alcoholic Beverage Permit Requirements

7.1-3-20-16.2. Municipal Lakefront Development Project; Qualifications for Permit; Documentation; Restriction on Issuance of Permit

7.1-3-20-16.3. Sale of Manufactured Beer for Carryout

7.1-3-20-16.4. Restaurant Permittee With Interest in Production Facility; Restaurant Carryout Sales of Facility's Products

7.1-3-20-16.5. Restaurants in Historic Places or Districts; Retailer's Permits

7.1-3-20-16.8. Permits in Areas of Economic Development or Redevelopment in Certain Municipalities

7.1-3-20-17. Service Bars

7.1-3-20-17.5. Dispensing and Storing Alcoholic Beverage in Event Space of Hotel or Restaurant

7.1-3-20-18. Hotels; General Requirements

7.1-3-20-18.6. Submission of Hotel Floor Plan

7.1-3-20-18.7. College or University Hotels; Nonpermanent Outside Bars; Service Windows

7.1-3-20-19. Hotels Within Corporate Limits

7.1-3-20-20. Hotels Outside Corporate Limits

7.1-3-20-21. Resort Hotels

7.1-3-20-22. Repealed

7.1-3-20-23. Hotels; In-Room Vending Units

7.1-3-20-24. Licensed Permit Premises Used Exclusively as Catering Hall

7.1-3-20-24.4. Malls

7.1-3-20-25. City Markets

7.1-3-20-26. Permit for Historic Theater

7.1-3-20-27. Restaurants; Service Windows

7.1-3-20-28. Beer Gardens

7.1-3-20-28.5. Patio or Rooftop of Civic Center or Recreational Facility

7.1-3-20-29. Food Hall Master Permit

7.1-3-20-30. Food Hall Vendor's Permit

7.1-3-20-31. Carryout Sales by Certain Vendor Permittees