Title: Vendors Licensed Under the Beverage Law

Summary: Repeals provisions relating to restrictions on sale by certain licensed alcoholic beverage vendors of merchandise other than specifically authorized types of merchandise & restrictions on direct access to such vendor's place of business; provides exception from employment restrictions on vendors licensed under Beverage Law for employment of persons under specified age; provides that failure to comply with restriction on monthly revenue from sale of alcoholic beverages is unlawful if minor is employed during month that restriction is exceeded, to which penalties apply.

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An act relating to vendors licensed under the Beverage Law; repealing s. 565.04, F.S., relating to restrictions on the sale by certain licensed alcoholic beverage vendors of merchandise other than specifically authorized types of merchandise and restrictions on direct access to such a vendor's place of business;amending s. 562.13, F.S.; providing an exception from employment restrictions on vendors licensed under the Beverage Law for the employment of persons under a specified age; providing that failure to comply with a restriction on monthly revenue from the sale of alcoholic beverages is unlawful if a minor is employed during a month that the restriction is exceeded,to which penalties apply;providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Section 5.04, Florida Statutes, is repealed. Section 2. Paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section 562.13, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 562.13 Employment of minors or certain other persons by certain vendors prohibited; exceptions.-(2) This secti on shall not apply to: (c) Persons under the age of years who are employed in HB 2016 licensed vendor premises that include within the premises a retail drugstore, grocery store, department store, florist, specialty gift shop, or automobile service station, a nd whose annual license fees are set forth in s. 563.02(1), s. 564.02(1), or s. 565.02(1)(a), if the vendor licensed to sell alcoholic beverages on the licensed premises derives percent or less of its gross revenues each month from the sale of alcoholic beverages and if the minor employee is supervised by a person 34 years of age or older who, before any purchase of alcoholic beverages,verifies by a method of acceptable identification determined by the division by rule the age of the purchaser to be years of age or older and approves the sale of alcoholic beverages to such purchaser. Failure to comply with the restriction on monthly revenue from the sale of alcoholic beverages is unlawful if a person under the age of years is employed in the licens ed premises during a month that the restriction is exceeded drugstores, grocery stores, department stores, florists, specialty gift shops, or automobile service stations which have obtained licenses to sell beer or beer and wine, when such sales are made for consumption off the premises.However, a minor to whom this subsection otherwise applies may not be employed if the employment, whether as a professional entertainer or otherwise, involves nudity, as defined in s. 847.001, on the part of the minor and such nudity is intended as a form of adult entertainment. HB 2016 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.