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Liquor committee restores penalties accidentally removed from statute, approves private-party and takeout-mix amendments
Summary
The House Commerce and Consumer Affairs subcommittee voted unanimously to restore statutory penalties for death-related over-service that were inadvertently deleted in prior legislation, and approved related amendments to allow private parties and to permit sale of mixed drinks for off-premises consumption under specified conditions.
The House Commerce and Consumer Affairs subcommittee on May 29 voted to restore statutory penalties for death-related over-service that were inadvertently removed when unrelated liquor and tasting bills were combined. Chief Elston of New Hampshire Liquor Enforcement told the committee the language restoring the penalties is “the same exact language that was previously passed and enacted,” and that the provision had existed briefly in statute before the deletion.
The committee also approved two related amendments to House Bill 529: one to allow…
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