| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to alcoholic beverage deliveries; amending |
| 3 | s. 561.57, F.S.; exempting common carriers making certain |
| 4 | deliveries from certain report filing requirements; |
| 5 | requiring common carriers to verify the age of certain |
| 6 | recipients; providing for defense under certain |
| 7 | circumstances; providing an effective date. |
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| 9 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 11 | Section 1. Subsection (6) of section 561.57, Florida |
| 12 | Statutes, is amended to read: |
| 13 | 561.57 Deliveries by licensees.-- |
| 14 | (6) Common carriers are not required to have vehicle |
| 15 | permits to transport alcoholic beverages. Nothing in this |
| 16 | section shall prohibit any common carrier, or any licensee or |
| 17 | other person utilizing a common carrier as his or her agent, |
| 18 | from making a delivery from any place within the state to any |
| 19 | other place within the state. Intrastate deliveries of alcoholic |
| 20 | beverages by common carriers, or licensees or other persons |
| 21 | utilizing common carriers as their agents, are exempt from the |
| 22 | report filing requirements in s. 562.20. All common carriers |
| 23 | acting as designated agents for delivery shall verify that any |
| 24 | person receiving alcoholic beverages is at least 21 years of age |
| 25 | upon the delivery of such alcoholic beverages, as prescribed in |
| 26 | the division's rules. The prescribed age verification shall give |
| 27 | the common carrier and the licensee or other person hiring the |
| 28 | common carrier a complete defense of selling, giving, or serving |
| 29 | alcoholic beverages to any person under the age of 21. |
| 30 | Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law. |