2023 Utah Code › Title 32B - Alcoholic Beverage Control Act › Chapter 4 - Criminal Offenses and Procedure Act › Part 4 - Sale, Purchase, Possession, and Consumption › Section 415 - Unlawful bringing onto premises for consumption.

Effective 6/1/2022
32B-4-415.
Unlawful bringing onto premises for consumption.
(1) Except as provided in Subsection (4) and Section 32B-5-307, a person may not bring an alcoholic product for on-premise consumption onto the premises of:
(a) a retail licensee or person required to be licensed under this title as a retail licensee;
(b) an establishment that conducts a business similar to a retail licensee;
(c) an event where an alcoholic product is sold, offered for sale, or furnished under a single event permit or temporary beer event permit issued under this title;
(d) an establishment open to the general public; or
(e) the capitol hill complex.
(2) Except as provided in Subsection (4) and Section 32B-5-307, the following may not allow a person to bring onto its premises an alcoholic product for on-premise consumption or allow consumption of an alcoholic product brought onto its premises in violation of this section:
(a) a retail licensee or a person required to be licensed under this title as a retail licensee;
(b) an establishment that conducts a business similar to a retail licensee;
(c) a single event permittee or temporary beer event permittee;
(d) an establishment open to the general public;
(e) the State Capitol Preservation Board created in Section 63C-9-201; or
(f)staff of a person listed in Subsections (2)(a) through (e).
(3) Except as provided in Subsection (4)(c)(i)(A), a person may not consume an alcoholic product in a limousine or chartered bus if the limousine or chartered bus drops off a passenger at:
(a) a location from which the passenger departs in a private vehicle; or
(b) the capitol hill complex.
(4)
(a) A person may bring bottled wine onto the premises of the following and consume the wine pursuant to Section 32B-5-307:
(i) a full-service restaurant licensee;
(ii) a limited restaurant licensee;
(iii) a bar establishment licensee; or
(iv) a person operating under a spa sublicense.
(b) A passenger of a limousine may bring onto, possess, and consume an alcoholic product in the limousine if:
(i) the travel of the limousine begins and ends at:
(A) the residence of the passenger;
(B) the hotel of the passenger, if the passenger is a registered guest of the hotel; or
(C) the temporary domicile of the passenger;
(ii) the driver of the limousine is separated from the passengers by partition or other means approved by the department; and
(iii) the limousine is not located on the capitol hill complex.
(c) A passenger of a chartered bus may bring onto, possess, and consume an alcoholic product on the chartered bus:
(i)
(A) but may consume only during travel to a specified destination of the chartered bus and not during travel back to the place where the travel begins; or
(B) if the travel of the chartered bus begins and ends at:
(I) the residence of the passenger;
(II) the hotel of the passenger, if the passenger is a registered guest of the hotel; or
(III) the temporary domicile of the passenger;
(ii) if the chartered bus has a nondrinking designee other than the driver traveling on the chartered bus to monitor consumption; and
(iii) if the chartered bus is not located on the capitol hill complex.
(5) A person may bring onto any premises, possess, and consume an alcoholic product at a private event.
(6) Notwithstanding Subsection (5), private and public facilities may prohibit the possession or consumption of alcohol on their premises.
(7) The restrictions of Subsections (2) and (3) apply to a resort licensee or hotel licensee or person operating under a sublicense in relationship to:
(a) the boundary of a resort building, as defined in Section 32B-8-102, or the boundary of a hotel, as defined in Section 32B-8b-102, in an area that is open to the public; or
(b) except as provided in Subsection (4), sublicensed premises.
Amended by Chapter 447, 2022 General Session