(a) A special sporting facility restaurant permit shall allow the retail sale of alcoholic liquor at any location in a special sporting facility kept, used, maintained, advertised and held out to the public to be a place where hot meals are regularly served and which has an adequate and sanitary kitchen and dining room and has employed therein at all times an adequate number of employees, provided such alcoholic liquor is to be consumed within the special sporting facility. The annual fee for a special sporting facility restaurant permit shall be one thousand four hundred fifty dollars.

(b) A special sporting facility employee recreational permit shall allow the retail sale of beer in an establishment located within a special sporting facility and created to provide eating, sleeping and recreational accommodations to any person employed within such special sporting facility, provided such beer is to be consumed within such special sporting facility. The annual fee for a special sporting facility employee recreational permit shall be three hundred dollars.

(c) A special sporting facility guest permit shall allow the retail sale of alcoholic liquor at any location in a special sporting facility reserved for guests approved by the holder of such permit and by the operator of such special sporting facility, provided such alcoholic liquor is to be consumed within such special sporting facility. The annual fee for a special sporting facility guest permit shall be three hundred dollars.

(d) A special sporting facility concession permit shall allow the retail sale of beer and wine at locations within a special sporting facility, provided such beer and wine is to be consumed within such special sporting facility. The annual fee for a special sporting facility concession permit shall be three hundred dollars.

(e) A special sporting facility bar permit shall allow the retail sale of alcoholic liquor at any location within a special sporting facility, provided such alcoholic liquor is to be consumed within such special sporting facility. The annual fee for a special sporting facility bar permit shall be three hundred seventy-five dollars.

(f) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 30-52, a coliseum concession permit that is issued to a municipality or a municipal authority shall allow the sale and consumption of beer and wine at jai alai frontons located within the boundaries of the municipality at such times when the municipality is a lessee or has physical control of the fronton; provided no such coliseum concession permit shall be issued or valid after December 31, 1982. The existence of another permit for the same fronton shall not bar sales under the coliseum concession permit and sales under a coliseum concession permit shall not bar the issuance or operation of any other permit on the fronton premises.

(g) Any of the special sporting facility permits established under subsections (a) to (e), inclusive, of this section shall allow the retail sale of alcoholic liquor by such special sporting facility to any bona fide, nonprofit organization that rents, leases or otherwise uses such facility for social gatherings and events sponsored by such organization.

(h) “Special sporting facility” means all of the land and buildings in which the principal business conducted is racing or jai alai exhibitions with pari-mutuel betting licensed by the Department of Consumer Protection.

(P.A. 74-307, S. 2; P.A. 78-344, S. 3, 4; P.A. 80-247, S. 1, 2; P.A. 93-139, S. 33; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 351; P.A. 13-299, S. 83.)

History: P.A. 78-344 added Subsec. (f) re sale of beer and wine at jai alai frontons; P.A. 80-247 added Subsec. (g) re sale of liquor under special sporting facility permits to nonprofit organizations using a facility; P.A. 93-139 made technical changes, added the annual fees for special sporting facility permits and added the definition of “special sporting facility” as Subsec. (h); June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 increased fees in Subsecs. (a) to (e); P.A. 13-299 amended Subsec. (h) to replace “gaming policy board” with “Department of Consumer Protection”, effective July 1, 2013.