{"id":"MN-043","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Minnesota","state":"MN","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Minnesota Legislature (91st Legislature, 2020 Regular Session), S.F. No. 4489, signed by Governor Tim Walz April 17, 2020, 4:19 p.m.","authority":"Legislative act; Minn. Stat. ch. 340A","instrument":"Laws of Minnesota 2020, chapter 75, section 1","title":"Limited Off-Sale for Restaurants Closed by Executive Order (\u0027An act relating to liquor; allowing certain on-sale licensees to make off-sales of liquor\u0027)","dateIssued":"2020-04-17","effective":"2020-04-18 (day following final enactment) while restaurants remained closed to on-premises consumption by executive order","end":"Tied to the executive-order closure of restaurants; EOs 20-63 para. 7.c.ix and 20-99 para. 7.c.iii.A.2 recite that the closure continued for purposes of this chapter through the indoor-dining prohibitions","startDate":"2020-04-18","endDate":"2021-03-31","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1"],"types":["ALC","CLOSE"],"addressees":["restaurants holding on-sale intoxicating liquor or on-sale wine licenses","municipalities (may opt out)"],"clause":"Section 1. LIMITED OFF-SALE FOR RESTAURANTS CLOSED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER. (a) A qualifying licensee may offer off-sales of malt liquor, hard seltzer, cider, and wine with a prepared food take-out order, without obtaining an additional license, subject to the following limitations:... (2) the alcoholic beverages are sold in their original, unopened packaging; (3) no more than 72 ounces in total of malt liquor, hard seltzer, and cider; and 750 milliliters of wine may be sold per prepared food take-out order... No delivery of alcoholic beverages is authorized by this section. (c) The governing body of a municipality may elect to prohibit the off-sale of alcoholic beverages authorized by this section.","enforcement":"Minn. Stat. ch. 340A liquor licensing enforcement (Department of Public Safety, Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement; municipalities)","functions":["BA bar and alcohol service (converted to limited takeout)","TO takeout","DR (closure premise)"],"notes":"The Legislature\u0027s own finding that Minnesota restaurants were \u0027closed by executive order\u0027 in April 2020; the relief is a limitation-shaped instrument (quantity caps, no delivery, municipal veto) resting on the closure.","sourceUrl":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2020/0/Session+Law/Chapter/75/pdf/","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":273165,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MN","url":"/library/MN-043","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MN-043","citation":"Minnesota Legislature (91st Legislature, 2020 Regular Session), S.F. No. 4489, signed by Governor Tim Walz April 17, 2020, 4:19 p.m, Laws of Minnesota 2020, chapter 75, section 1 (Apr. 17, 2020) (Ex. MN-043)","stateName":"Minnesota","related":[]}