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- Jurisdiction
- Massachusetts (State alcoholic-beverage regulator) · Massachusetts
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- Advisory implementing the updated Phase III protocols
- Issued
- 2020-08-10 Aug. 10, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-08-11
- End
- May 29, 2021 (Ex. 090) (read as 2021-05-29)
- In force
- Aug. 11, 2020 to May 29, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capAlcohol and barsEvents and venues
- Addressees
- licensees selling alcohol for on-premises consumption
- Functions reached
- BA
- BQ banquets and private functions (25 indoor / 50 outdoor)
- DR
- CB
- Character
- context
- Collection
- State alcoholic-beverage regulators AGY-ST-ALCOHOL
Operative words
until Phase IV commences all licensees licensed for the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption must provide seated food service with the sale of alcohol.... Beginning tomorrow, August 11, 2020, for each customer, an item of prepared food must be ordered at the same time as an initial alcoholic beverage(s) order.... any licensees holding private functions on their premises must limit attendance to 25 people for indoor events and 50 people for outdoor events.
Enforcement
M.G.L. c. 138, § 64; local licensing authorities
Notes
Bars, as such, could not operate in Massachusetts until Phase IV (May 29, 2021).
Retrieval noteIssued August 10, 2020 (file name carries 2020-08-07). exhibits MA-0xx) to licensees. The legal force lies in the Governor's Order, enforced against licensees through M.G.L. c. 138, s. 64; the advisory is not itself an order, rule or condition of license. Cite the Governor's Order as the instrument and the advisory as evidence of its application to licensees).