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- Jurisdiction
- Minnesota
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Legislative act; Minn. Stat. ch. 340A
- Issued
- 2020-04-17 Apr. 17, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-04-18 (day following final enactment) while restaurants remained closed to on-premises consumption by executive order (read as 2020-04-18)
- 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 (read as 2021-03-31)
- In force
- Apr. 18, 2020 to Mar. 31, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureAlcohol and bars
- Addressees
- restaurants holding on-sale intoxicating liquor or on-sale wine licenses
- municipalities (may opt out)
- Functions reached
- BA bar and alcohol service (converted to limited takeout)
- TO takeout
- DR (closure premise)
- Collection
- Minnesota MN
Operative words
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)
Notes
The Legislature's own finding that Minnesota restaurants were 'closed by executive order' in April 2020; the relief is a limitation-shaped instrument (quantity caps, no delivery, municipal veto) resting on the closure.