Arizona Revised Statutes Title 4 - Alcoholic Beverages
Chapter 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1 Definitions
- § 4-101 Definitions
In this title, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Act of violence" means an incident consisting of a riot, a brawl or a...
Article 2 Department of Liquor Licenses and Control
- § 4-111 State Liquor Board; Department Of Liquor Licenses And Control; Members; Director; Appointment And Removal
A. The department of liquor licenses and control is established consisting of the state liquor board and the office of director of the department....
- § 4-112 Powers And Duties Of Board And Director Of Department Of Liquor Licenses And Control; Investigations; County And Municipal Regulation
A. The board shall: 1. Grant and deny applications in accordance with the provisions of this title. 2. Adopt rules in order to carry...
- § 4-113 Enforcement Officer; Credentials; Peace Officer Status
Each enforcement officer within the department who is designated by the director shall, for identification purposes, have credentials signed by the director and countersigned...
- § 4-114 Interest In Business Prohibited; Forfeiture Of Office
A. Except for a member designated by the governor to be appointed from the industry, no member of the board or the director or...
- § 4-115 Disposition Of Fees And Penalties
A. Unless otherwise provided, all license, registration and other fees and all penalties collected pursuant to this title shall be deposited, pursuant to sections...
- § 4-116 Receipts From Club Licenses And Applications
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, all receipts derived from club licenses and applications therefor are appropriated to the department of economic...
- § 4-118 Inspection Of Premises
The director, the director's agents and any peace officer may, in enforcing the provisions of this title, visit during the hours in which the...
- § 4-119 Records
A licensee shall keep records of licensed business activity in a manner and location and for such duration as prescribed by the director. The...
- § 4-120 Liquor Licenses Fund; Exemption
A. The liquor licenses fund is established consisting of monies deposited pursuant to section 4-115. The department of liquor licenses and control shall administer...
Chapter 2 REGULATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS
Article 1 Licenses
- § 4-201 Licensing; Application Procedure In City, Town Or County; Burden Of Proof
A. A person desiring a license to manufacture, sell or deal in spirituous liquors shall make application to the director on a form prescribed...
- § 4-201.01 Extending Time Limits
A. In the event any decision, hearing, or other action by the department, including the board, is alleged to be untimely, an aggrieved person...
- § 4-202 Qualifications Of Licensees; Application; Background Information; Prior Convictions
A. Every spirituous liquor licensee, other than a club licensee, a corporation licensee, a limited liability company licensee or an out-of-state licensee, shall be...
- § 4-203 Licenses; Issuance; Transfer; Reversion To State
A. A spirituous liquor license shall be issued only after satisfactory showing of the capability, qualifications and reliability of the applicant and, with the...
- § 4-203.01 Interim Permit; Fee; Rules
A. The director may issue an interim permit to the applicant for a license of the same series, or for the replacement of a...
- § 4-203.02 Special Event License; Rules
A. The director may issue on a temporary basis: 1. A daily on-sale special event license authorizing the sale of spirituous liquor for consumption...
- § 4-203.03 Wine Festival License; Wine Fair License; Fee
A. The director, subject to the approval of the board of supervisors for events to be held in an unincorporated area or the governing...
- § 4-203.04 Direct Shipment License; Issuance; Fee; Requirements; Penalties; Cease And Desist Orders
A. The director may issue a direct shipment license to a person who is engaged in business as a distiller, vintner, brewer, rectifier, blender...
- § 4-203.05 Licenses Held In Nonuse Status
A licensee who holds a license in nonuse status shall not be responsible for and shall not accrue any municipal license fee or tax...
- § 4-204 Personal Representative Or Fiduciary Acting For Licensee
A. A person acting as administrator, executor or guardian of the estate of any licensee or a person acting as receiver for any licensee,...
- § 4-205 Issuance Of Club License; Regulatory Provisions; Revocation
A. The director may issue one club license to any club as defined in section 4-101. B. The holder of a club license is...
- § 4-205.01 Hotel-Motel License; Issuance; Revocation
A. The director may issue a hotel-motel license to any hotel or motel in this state that has in conjunction with such hotel or...
- § 4-205.02 Restaurant License; Issuance; Regulatory Provisions; Expiration; Definitions
A. The director may issue a restaurant license to any restaurant in this state that is regularly open for the serving of food to...
- § 4-205.03 Government License; Issuance; Regulatory Provisions; Agreements With Coliseum Concessionaires; Definitions
A. The department may issue a government license to any state agency, state board, state commission, county, city, town, community college or state university,...
- § 4-205.04 Farm Winery License; Issuance; Regulatory Provisions; Retail Site; Fee
A. The director may issue a farm winery license to any person who meets the requirements of subsection C of this section. Each location...
- § 4-205.05 Disposal Of Seized Or Recovered Liquor
A. The director may issue a temporary permit authorizing the disposal at public auction of spirituous liquor that has been seized by any agency...
- § 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...
- § 4-205.07 Conveyance License For Excursion Boats
A. The director may issue a conveyance license to the owner or lessee of an excursion boat if all of the following conditions apply:...
- § 4-205.08 Microbrewery License; Issuance; Regulatory Provisions; Retail Site
A. The director may issue a microbrewery license to any microbrewery. Each location that engages in producing, manufacturing and bottling these products must obtain...
- § 4-205.09 Domestic Microbrewery And Domestic Farm Winery Licenses On Same Land; Requirements
A. The director may issue a domestic microbrewery license located on the same parcel of land as a domestic farm winery subject to the...
- § 4-205.10 Craft Distiller License; Issuance; Regulatory Provisions; Fee
A. The director may issue a craft distiller license to any person that meets the requirements of subsection C of this section. Each location...
- § 4-205.11 Craft Distillery Festival License; Craft Distillery Fair License; Craft Distillery Fee
A. The director, subject to the approval of the board of supervisors for events to be held in an unincorporated area or the governing...
- § 4-206.01 Bar, Beer And Wine Bar Or Liquor Store Licenses; Number Permitted; Fee; Sampling Privileges
A. The director shall determine the total number of spirituous liquor licenses by type and in each county. The director shall publish a listing...
- § 4-207 Restrictions On Licensing Premises Near School Or Church Buildings; Definitions
A. A retailer's license shall not be issued for any premises that are, at the time the license application is received by the director,...
- § 4-207.01 Submission Of Floor Plan Required; Alteration Of Licensed Premises; Ingress And Egress To Off-Sale Package Sales In On-Sale Licensed Premises
A. No licensee of premises approved for transfer or an original location of on-sale spirituous liquor license shall open such licensed premises to the...
- § 4-208 Rejection As To Location
A. The director shall not accept an application nor issue a license to sell or deal in spirituous liquors at a location for which...
- § 4-209 Fees For License, Application, Issuance, Renewal And Transfer; Late Renewal Penalty; Seasonal Operation; Surcharges
A. A fee shall accompany an application for an original license or transfer of a license, or in case of renewal, shall be paid...
- § 4-210 Grounds For Revocation, Suspension And Refusal To Renew; Notice; Complaints; Hearings
A. After notice and hearing, the director may suspend, revoke or refuse to renew any license issued pursuant to this chapter for any of...
- § 4-210.01 Authority To Impose Civil Penalty; Training
A. In lieu of or in addition to the suspension or revocation of or refusal to renew a license authorized by section 4-210, subsection...
- § 4-210.02 Appeals From Director
A. Except as provided in section 4-203.01, subsection E, a decision issued by the director is not final for purposes of appeal to superior...
- § 4-211 Judicial Review; Bond
A. Except as provided in section 41-1092.08, subsection H, final decisions of the board are subject to judicial review pursuant to title 12, chapter...
- § 4-212 Injunctions
If the board or the director has reasonable grounds to believe that a person is violating section 4-244.05 or 4-250.01 or is manufacturing, selling...
- § 4-213 Restaurant Audit
A. The director may require a restaurant to submit an audit of its records to demonstrate compliance with section 4-205.02. The director shall not...
- § 4-214 Arizona Wines; Labeling
A. A person licensed as a farm winery pursuant to section 4-205.04 or licensed as a producer pursuant to section 4-203 may label a...
Article 2 Regulatory Provisions
Article 3 Prohibitions
- § 4-241 Selling Or Giving Liquor To Underage Person; Illegally Obtaining Liquor By Underage Person; Violation; Classification; Definitions
A. If a licensee, an employee of the licensee or any other person questions or has reason to question that the person ordering, purchasing,...
- § 4-242 Sale Of Liquor On Credit Prohibited; Exceptions
A. It is unlawful for a retail licensee, or an employee or agent of a licensee, to sell or offer to sell, directly or...
- § 4-242.01 Prohibition Of Automatic Teller Machine Or Point‑of‑sale Terminal That Accepts Electronic Benefit Transfer Cards On Premises
A. It is unlawful for a liquor store as defined in section 46-297 to operate on the licensed premises an automatic teller machine or...
- § 4-243 Commercial Coercion Or Bribery Unlawful; Exceptions
A. It is unlawful for a person engaged in the business of distiller, vintner, brewer, rectifier or blender or any other producer or wholesaler...
- § 4-243.01 Purchasing From Other Than Primary Source Of Supply Unlawful; Definitions
A. It is unlawful: 1. For any supplier to solicit, accept or fill any order for any spirituous liquor from any wholesaler in this...
- § 4-243.02 Sale Of Beer, Wine Or Distilled Spirits By Producer; Limitations
A. A person who holds a producer's license may sell beer produced by the producer through the producer's own on-sale retail premises if: 1....
- § 4-243.04 On-Sale Retail Licensees; Ownership Interests; Conditions
A. Notwithstanding section 4-243, a distiller, vintner, brewer, rectifier, blender or other producer of spirituous liquor may have a direct or indirect ownership interest...
- § 4-244 Unlawful Acts
It is unlawful: 1. For a person to buy for resale, sell or deal in spirituous liquors in this state without first having procured...
- § 4-244.02 Unlawful Importation Of Spirituous Liquor; Exceptions
A. It is unlawful for any person, not a qualified licensee under this title, to import spirituous liquors into this state from a foreign...
- § 4-244.04 Farm Winery Sampling
Notwithstanding section 4-244, paragraphs 13 and 19, a representative of a licensed farm winery may consume small amounts and may serve the products of...
- § 4-244.05 Unlicensed Business Establishment Or Premises; Unlawful Consumption Of Spirituous Liquor; Civil Penalty; Seizure And Forfeiture Of Property
A. A person owning, operating, leasing, managing or controlling a business establishment or business premises which are not properly licensed pursuant to this title...
- § 4-246 Violation; Classification
A. A person violating any provision of this title is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor unless another classification is prescribed. B. A person...
- § 4-247 Peace Officers
No provision in this title shall be construed as limiting the rights and duties of any peace officer to enforce any provision of this
- § 4-248 Reporting By Court Of Convictions; Definition
A. Every court having jurisdiction over violations of this title shall forward to the department a record of the conviction of a person in...
- § 4-249 Consumption Of Liquor By Underage Person In Religious Service Allowed
The dispensing to or possession or consumption by a person under the legal drinking age of spirituous liquor in the performance of a religious...
- § 4-250 Distilled Spirits Pricing; Prohibition
A. Out-of-state producers or suppliers of distilled spirits products shall not sell the products to an Arizona wholesaler at a cost higher than the...
- § 4-250.01 Out-Of-state Person Engaged In Business As Producer, Exporter, Importer Or Rectifier; Violation; Cease And Desist Order; Civil Penalty
A. An out-of-state person engaged in business as a producer, exporter, importer or rectifier shall comply with this title as if licensed by this...
- § 4-251 Spirituous Liquor In Motor Vehicles; Prohibitions; Violation; Classification; Exceptions; Definitions
A. It is unlawful for any person to: 1. Consume spirituous liquor while operating or while within the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle...
Article 4 Warning Signs
Chapter 3 CIVIL LIABILITY OF LICENSEES AND OTHER PERSONS
Article 1 Liability Limitation
- § 4-301 Liability Limitation; Social Host
A person other than a licensee or an employee of a licensee acting during the employee's working hours or in connection with such employment...
- § 4-302 Notice Of Litigation
A. A person filing a claim for relief seeking damages from a licensee and alleging that a person was injured or damage occurred which...
Article 2 Illegal Sale of Spirituous Liquor
Last modified: October 13, 2016