An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Mobile Service Bars on Maine Golf Courses
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 0290
Committee: Legal and Veterans Affairs
Sponsors: BROWNE, MAYO, BROWN, BRYANT-DESCHENES, FISCHER, HOTHAM, TARDY, DAMON, PLOWMAN
Amends: 28-A MRSA §1012, 28-A MRSA §1075, 28-A MRSA §1075-A

Legislative Document 
No. 290 
H.P.215 
House of Representatives, January 18,2005 
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Mobile Service Bars on 
Maine Golf Courses 
Reference to the Committee on Legal and Veterans Affairs suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative BROWNE of Vassalboro. 
Cosponsored by Senator MAYO of Sagadahoc and 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Representatives: BROWN of South Berwick, BRYANT-DESCHENES of Tumer, FISCHER 
of Presque Isle, HOTHAM of Dixfield, TARDY of Newport, Senators: DAMON of Hancock, 
PLOWMAN of Penobscot. 
Printed on recycled paper 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 28-A MRSA §1012. sub-§4. as enacted by PL 2003, c. 
579, §1, is amended to read: 
4. 
Golf course mobile service bar. 
A licensee who is the 
owner of a golf course may apply for a license to sell malt 
liquor from a mobile service bar as provided in section 107 5-A. 
The license fee per calendar year is $100. 
Sec. 2. 28-A MRS A §1075. sub-§2, as repealed and replaced by 
PL 2003, c. 579, §2, is amended to read: 
2. 
Sales for consumption on slopes or courses prohibited. 
This section does not permit a 
ski area to sell liquor for 
consumption on the slopes away from the licensed area. 
Except as 
provided in section 1075-A, a golf course may not sell liquor for 
consumption on the course away from the licensed area. 
Sec. 3. 28-A MRSA §1075, sub-§2-A, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 
579, §3, is repealed. 
Sec. 4. 28-A MRSA §1075-A, sub-§2, 1IB, as enacted by PL 2003, 
c. 579, §4, is repealed and the following enacted in its place: 
B. 
The licensee does not possess or permit possession, sale 
or consumption of any malt liquor on the golf course other 
than that which is permitted and purchased by the licensee 
in accordance with the license or licenses granted; 
Sec. 5. 28-A MRSA §1075-A, sub-§4, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 
579, §4, is repealed and the following enacted in its place: 
4. 
Reyocation and suspension of license. 
Licensees and 
license applicants under this section are subject to chapter 33 
to the Same extent as other on-premises licensees. 
Sec. 6. 28-A MRSA §1075-A, sub-§6, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 
579, §4, is repealed. 
SUMMARY 
This bill amends current law permitting the licensure of 
mobile service bars on golf courses. 
Current law requires that 
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mobile service bar licensees automatically lose all of their 
liquor licenses in the event that any amount of malt liquor, 
other than that which is sold by the licensee, is possessed and 
consumed on the premises by members of the public. 
This bill 
alters 
that 
standard 
to 
make 
it 
consistent 
with 
similar 
provisions governing other on-premises licensees. 
Specifically, 
it provides that mobile service bar licensees may not possess nor 
permit 
possession, 
sale 
or 
consumption 
of 
unauthorized malt 
liquor on the premises, and that a licensee' s failure to adhere 
to 
this 
standard 
subjects 
it 
to 
potential 
revocation 
and 
suspension of the liquor license or other forms of discipline to 
the same extent as other on-premises licensees. 
The bill also 
removes the sunset provisions on the law allowing the sale of 
malt liquor on golf courses.