HOUSE BILL No. 5084

 

October 18, 2011, Introduced by Reps. Horn, Foster, Bumstead, MacMaster, Jacobsen, Kowall and Hughes and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.

 

     A bill to amend 1998 PA 58, entitled

 

"Michigan liquor control code of 1998,"

 

by amending section 229 (MCL 436.1229), as amended by 2005 PA 288.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 229. (1) The commission may license a hotel, or merchant,

 

in places that the commission may designate, designates, to sell

 

spirits or beer and wine for consumption off the premises,

 

notwithstanding section 233(1). Except as otherwise provided in

 

this section, if alcoholic liquor is sold by a specially designated

 

distributor pursuant to under a license issued under this section,

 

it shall not be sold at less than the minimum retail selling price

 

fixed by the commission and pursuant to under rules promulgated by

 

the commission.

 


     (2) The commission may, by rule or order, allow a specially

 

designated distributor to sell alcoholic liquor at less than the

 

minimum retail selling price in order to dispose of inventory at a

 

price and under conditions and procedures established through that

 

rule or order.

 

     (3) As used in this section and in sections 1201, 1203, 1205,

 

and 1207, "retail selling price" means the price the commission

 

pays for spirits plus the gross profit established in section 233.

 

     (4) As used in this section, "minimum retail selling price"

 

means retail selling price plus the specific taxes imposed in

 

sections 1201, 1203, 1205, and 1207.