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1     AN ACT concerning liquor.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Liquor Control Act of 1934 is amended by
5 changing Section 6-28 as follows:
 
6     (235 ILCS 5/6-28)  (from Ch. 43, par. 144d)
7     Sec. 6-28. Happy hours prohibited. (a) All retail licensees
8 shall maintain a schedule of the prices charged for all drinks
9 of alcoholic liquor to be served and consumed on the licensed
10 premises or in any room or part thereof. Whenever a hotel or
11 multi-use establishment which holds a valid retailer's license
12 operates on its premises more than one establishment at which
13 drinks of alcoholic liquor are sold at retail, the hotel or
14 multi-use establishment shall maintain at each such
15 establishment a separate schedule of the prices charged for
16 such drinks at that establishment.
17     (b) No retail licensee or employee or agent of such
18 licensee shall:
19         (1) serve 2 or more drinks of alcoholic liquor at one
20     time to one person for consumption by that one person,
21     except conducting product sampling pursuant to Section
22     6-31 or selling or delivering wine by the bottle or carafe;
23         (2) sell, offer to sell or serve to any person an
24     unlimited number of drinks of alcoholic liquor during any
25     set period of time for a fixed price, except at private
26     functions not open to the general public;
27         (3) sell, offer to sell or serve any drink of alcoholic
28     liquor to any person on any one date at a reduced price
29     other than that charged other purchasers of drinks on that
30     day where such reduced price is a promotion to encourage
31     consumption of alcoholic liquor, except as authorized in
32     paragraph (7) of subsection (c);

 

 

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1         (4) increase the volume of alcoholic liquor contained
2     in a drink, or the size of a drink of alcoholic liquor,
3     without increasing proportionately the price regularly
4     charged for the drink on that day;
5         (5) encourage or permit, on the licensed premises, any
6     game or contest which involves drinking alcoholic liquor or
7     the awarding of drinks of alcoholic liquor as prizes for
8     such game or contest on the licensed premises; or
9         (6) advertise or promote in any way, whether on or off
10     the licensed premises, any of the practices prohibited
11     under paragraphs (1) through (5).
12     (c) Nothing in subsection (b) shall be construed to
13 prohibit a licensee from:
14         (1) offering free food or entertainment at any time;
15         (2) including drinks of alcoholic liquor as part of a
16     meal package;
17         (3) including drinks of alcoholic liquor as part of a
18     hotel package;
19         (4) negotiating drinks of alcoholic liquor as part of a
20     contract between a hotel or multi-use establishment and
21     another group for the holding of any function, meeting,
22     convention or trade show;
23         (5) providing room service to persons renting rooms at
24     a hotel;
25         (6) selling pitchers (or the equivalent, including but
26     not limited to buckets), carafes, or bottles of alcoholic
27     liquor which are customarily sold in such manner, or
28     selling bottles of spirits, and delivered to 2 or more
29     persons at one time; or
30         (7) increasing prices of drinks of alcoholic liquor in
31     lieu of, in whole or in part, a cover charge to offset the
32     cost of special entertainment not regularly scheduled.
33     (d) A violation of this Act shall be grounds for suspension
34 or revocation of the retailer's license as provided by this
35 Act.
36 (Source: P.A. 90-432, eff. 1-1-98.)
 

 

 

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1     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
2 becoming law.