HB 340  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2021 SESSION

21-0368

08/06

 

HOUSE BILL 340

 

AN ACT permitting the designation of an open container area for the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Vann, Hills. 24; Rep. Conley, Straf. 13

 

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows a municipality to designate an outdoor area as an open container area for the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

21-0368

08/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One

 

AN ACT permitting the designation of an open container area for the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Section; Designated Open Container Area.  Amend RSA 178 by inserting after section 27-a the following new section:

178:27-b  Designated Open Container Area.  A municipality may establish an outdoor area on municipally-owned property where containers of alcoholic beverages that have been purchased legally may be opened and consumed.  

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.