Florida Senate - 2010                            (NP)    SB 2510
       
       
       
       By Senator Joyner
       
       
       
       
       18-02266-10                                           20102510__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to Hillsborough County; authorizing
    3         the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of the
    4         Department of Business and Professional Regulation to
    5         issue an alcoholic beverage license to the Children’s
    6         Museum of Tampa, Inc., to use within the museum’s
    7         building and on its grounds; providing that the
    8         license may be used only for special events; providing
    9         for payment of the license fee; providing for sale of
   10         beverages for consumption within the museum’s building
   11         and on its grounds; prohibiting sales for consumption
   12         off premises; providing for removal from the premises
   13         of partially consumed, open containers; authorizing
   14         transfer and providing for subsequent reversion of the
   15         license under certain circumstances; providing an
   16         effective date.
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   18  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   20         Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
   21  Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of the Department of
   22  Business and Professional Regulation is authorized, upon
   23  application, to issue an alcoholic beverage license in
   24  accordance with section 561.17, Florida Statutes, to the
   25  Children’s Museum of Tampa, Inc., (the “museum”), 110 W.
   26  Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa, a not-for-profit corporation, for use
   27  within the building known as the Children’s Museum of Tampa,
   28  Inc., and on its adjoining grounds. The museum shall pay the
   29  applicable license fee provided in section 565.02, Florida
   30  Statutes. The license may be used only for special events.
   31         Section 2. Alcoholic beverages may be sold by the licensee
   32  for consumption within the building and on the grounds of the
   33  museum. The license issued pursuant to this act does not permit
   34  the sale of alcoholic beverages in sealed containers for
   35  consumption outside the building and its grounds. This act does
   36  not prevent a purchaser of such alcoholic beverages from
   37  removing an opened, partially consumed container of alcoholic
   38  beverages from the premises of the museum.
   39         Section 3. The museum may transfer the license from time to
   40  time to qualified applicants who are either authorized by or
   41  under contract with the museum to provide food services at the
   42  museum. Upon termination of a transferee’s authorization or
   43  contract, the license automatically reverts by operation of law
   44  to the museum.
   45         Section 4. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.