§ 3-9-301 - Definitions.
3-9-301. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Director" means the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division;
(2) (A) "License" means a license to sell wine in a restaurant or cafe.
(B) An annual fee of three hundred dollars ($300) shall be paid for each license or renewal of a license.
(C) All moneys derived from the annual fees shall be deposited into the State Treasury as general revenues to the credit of the State Apportionment Fund, to be allocated and transferred to the various funds, fund accounts, and accounts participating in general revenues in the respective proportions to each as provided by law, and to be used for the respective purposes set forth in the Revenue Stabilization Law, 19-5-101 et seq.;
(3) "Person" means any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation;
(4) (A) "Restaurant" or "cafe" means a place of business serving food to the public prepared for consumption on the premises at an established eating place, as defined by reasonable rules and regulations promulgated by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.
(B) (i) The board is authorized and directed to establish appropriate rules and regulations defining "established eating places" to the extent that licenses granted under the provisions of this subchapter shall be issued only to those business establishments whose principal business is serving food for consumption on the premises.
(ii) However, a drive-in shall not be classified as an established eating place; and
(5) "Wine" or "wines" means any port wine, sherry wine, vermouth wine, or other wines, the alcoholic content of which does not exceed twenty-one percent (21%), regardless of whether the wines are manufactured within or without the State of Arkansas.