Florida Senate - 2013 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 372
Barcode 405880
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: RCS .
03/21/2013 .
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The Committee on Appropriations (Latvala) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete everything after the enacting clause
4 and insert:
5 Section 1. Subsections (3) and (4) of section 561.57,
6 Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
7 561.57 Deliveries by licensees.—
8 (3) A licensed Any vendor may transport alcoholic beverage
9 purchases from a distributor’s place of business to the vendor’s
10 licensed premises or off-premises storage, if the provided that
11 a vehicle used to transport the alcoholic beverages is owned or
12 leased by the vendor or any person who has been disclosed on a
13 license application filed by the vendor and approved by the
14 division and a valid vehicle permit has been or decal is issued
15 for such attached to the vendor’s owned or leased vehicle. A
16 vehicle owned or leased by a person disclosed on a license
17 application filed by the vendor and approved by the division
18 under this subsection must be operated by such person when
19 transporting alcoholic beverage purchases from a distributor’s
20 place of business to the vendor’s licensed premises or off
21 premises storage.
22 (4) A vehicle permit The division shall have prepared for
23 issuance vehicle permits or decals suitable to be attached to
24 such vehicles, with the words, “Beverage Vehicle No. ....,”
25 which may be obtained by a licensed any vendor or any person
26 authorized in subsection (3) upon application and payment of a
27 fee of $5 per vehicle to the division. The signature of the
28 person authorized in subsection (3) must be included on the
29 vehicle permit application. Such permit remains permits shall be
30 valid and does will not expire unless the vendor or any person
31 authorized in subsection (3) disposes of his or her vehicle, or
32 the vendor’s alcoholic beverage license is transferred,
33 canceled, not renewed, or is revoked by the division, whichever
34 occurs first. The division shall cancel a vehicle permit issued
35 to a vendor upon request from the vendor. The division shall
36 cancel a vehicle permit issued to any person authorized in
37 subsection (3) upon request from that person or the vendor. By
38 acceptance of a vehicle permit, the vendor or any person
39 authorized in subsection (3) licensee agrees that such vehicle
40 is shall always be subject to inspection and search be inspected
41 and searched without a search warrant, for the purpose of
42 ascertaining that all provisions of the alcoholic beverage laws
43 are complied with, by authorized employees of the division and
44 also by sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, and police officers during
45 business hours or other times that the vehicle is being used to
46 transport or deliver alcoholic beverages. A vehicle permit
47 issued under this subsection and invoices or sales tickets for
48 alcoholic beverages purchased and transported must be carried in
49 the vehicle used by the vendor or any person authorized in
50 subsection (3) when the vendor’s alcoholic beverages are being
51 transported or delivered.
52 Section 2. Subsection (2) of section 562.07, Florida
53 Statutes, is amended to read:
54 562.07 Illegal transportation of beverages.—It is unlawful
55 for alcoholic beverages to be transported in quantities of more
56 than 12 bottles except as follows:
57 (2) In the owned or leased vehicles of licensed vendors or
58 any persons authorized in s. 561.57(3) transporting alcoholic
59 beverage purchases from the distributor’s place of business to
60 the vendor’s licensed place of business or off-premises storage
61 and to which said vehicles are carrying attached a permit and
62 invoices or sales tickets for alcoholic beverages purchased and
63 transported or decal as provided for in the alcoholic beverage
64 law;
65 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.
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67 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================
68 And the title is amended as follows:
69 Delete everything before the enacting clause
70 and insert:
71 A bill to be entitled
72 An act relating to vehicle permits for the
73 transportation of alcoholic beverages; amending s.
74 561.57, F.S.; authorizing a licensed vendor to
75 transport alcoholic beverages from a distributor’s
76 place of business in vehicles owned or leased by any
77 person who has been disclosed on a license application
78 filed by the vendor and approved by the Division of
79 Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of the Department and
80 Business and Professional Regulation; revising permit
81 requirements for such vehicles; providing for
82 cancellation of vehicle permits; authorizing the
83 inspection and search of such vehicles without a
84 search warrant; providing requirements for the use and
85 storage of vehicle permits; amending s. 562.07, F.S.;
86 revising an exception to the illegal transportation of
87 beverages; providing an effective date.