Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023) › Title 3 - ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES (§§ 3-1-101 — 3-9-606) › Chapter 5 - BEER AND WINE - MANUFACTURE, SALE, AND TRANSPORTATION GENERALLY (§§ 3-5-101 — 3-5-1909) › Subchapter 12 - MICROBREWERY - RESTAURANTS (§§ 3-5-1201 — 3-5-1208) › Section 3-5-1202 - Definitions

As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1)
"Barrel" means thirty-one gallons (31 gals.);
(2)
"Beer" means any fermented liquor made from malt or any substitute therefor and having an alcoholic content not in excess of five percent (5%) by weight;
(3)
"Beer, malt beverage, hard cider, or ready-to-drink product law or rule" means any law of this state, or any rule promulgated and adopted with respect thereto, that is:
(A)
Applicable to a person applying for or holding a license to manufacture beer, malt beverage, hard cider, or ready-to-drink product; or
(B)
Applicable to a person applying for or holding a license to sell beer, malt beverage, hard cider, or ready-to-drink product in a restaurant for consumption on or off the licensed premises;
(4)
"Board" means the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of this state, or its successor agency;
(5)
"Conflicting beer, malt beverage, hard cider, or ready-to-drink product law or rule" means any beer, malt beverage, hard cider, or ready-to-drink product law or rule that prohibits or conflicts with the otherwise legal licensing and operation of microbrewery-restaurants, as authorized in this subchapter, by requiring any brewer to sell only to a licensed wholesaler, or requiring any licensed retailer to sell only beer, malt beverage, hard cider, or ready-to-drink product purchased from a licensed wholesaler, or prohibiting any brewer or retailer from having any ownership or employment interest in the business of the other or the premises of the other, or requiring that the excise and enforcement tax on beer, malt beverage, hard cider, or ready-to-drink product manufactured by a brewer be paid by a licensed wholesaler, or any beer, malt beverage, hard cider, or ready-to-drink product law or rule of similar direct or indirect effect;
(6)
"Director" means the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division of this state, or its successor agency;
(7)
"Dry area" means any area in this state in which the manufacture or sale of beer is prohibited by a local-option election heretofore or hereafter held pursuant to applicable laws of this state;
(8)
"Federal regulations" means regulations adopted by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives applicable to and consistent with a microbrewery-restaurant operation as authorized in this subchapter, incorporated herein by this reference, including, but not limited to,
27 C.F.R. Part 25, § 25.25
;
(9)
"Malt beverage" means any liquor brewed from the fermented juices of grain and having an alcoholic content of not less than five percent (5%) nor more than twenty-one percent (21%) by weight;
(10)
"Person" means any natural person, partnership, association, or corporation;
(11)
"Ready-to-drink product" means a product containing spirituous liquor with a final finished product of no greater than fifteen percent (15%) alcohol by weight; and
(12)
"Restaurant" means any public or private place which is kept, used, maintained, advertised, and held out to the public or to a private or restricted membership as a place where complete meals are actually and regularly served, such place being provided with adequate and sanitary kitchen and dining equipment and a seating capacity of at least fifty (50) people and having employed a sufficient number and kind of employees to prepare, cook, and serve suitable food for its guests or members. At least one (1) meal per day shall be served, and the place shall be open a minimum of five (5) days per week, with the exception of holidays, vacations, and periods of redecorating.
Amended by Act 2023, No. 169,§ 3, eff. 8/1/2023.
Amended by Act 2023, No. 169,§ 2, eff. 8/1/2023.
Amended by Act 2023, No. 169,§ 1, eff. 8/1/2023.
Amended by Act 2019, No. 315,§ 77, eff. 7/24/2019.
Amended by Act 2019, No. 315,§ 76, eff. 7/24/2019.
Acts 1991, No. 611, § 1; 1995, No. 491, § 1.