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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Texas (State alcoholic-beverage regulator) · Texas
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- Agency instruction on operating status changes under GA-32
- Issued
- 2020-12-04 Dec. 4, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-12-04
- End
- GA-34 (March 10, 2021) (read as 2021-03-10)
- In force
- Dec. 4, 2020 to Mar. 10, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q42021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureCapacity limitAlcohol and bars
- Addressees
- bars that requalified as restaurants
- bars and restaurants in high-hospitalization areas
- Functions reached
- Character
- context
- Collection
- State alcoholic-beverage regulators AGY-ST-ALCOHOL
Operative words
Bars and similar on-premise retail operations can operate at 50% capacity if their county is opted-in to reopen... If bars and similar establishments are in a county where they're not allowed to operate, they can re-establish their business as a restaurant with TABC. Restaurants and other on-premise retail operations can operate at 75% capacity if they are in a county that appears on this attestation list or... does NOT appear on this list of areas with high COVID-19 hospitalizations. Otherwise, restaurants and other on-premise retail operations may operate at 50% capacity.
Enforcement
Executive-order enforcement and TABC 51 percent audits
Notes
Documents the rolling Q4 2020 to Q1 2021 closures of bars in Trauma Service Areas as hospitalizations fluctuated.
Retrieval noteArticle dated December 4, 2020 (file name carries 2020-11-10). Cite it as context and cite the underlying order, statute or emergency rule it describes as the instrument. (Bulletins whose operative text imposes a mandatory duty on licensees under the regulator's own authority are excluded from this downgrade and listed separately for review.)).