12-4-401. Resort retail liquor licenses; authorized; qualifications; provision for licenses issued prior to January 1, 1980.

(a) The appropriate licensing authority in a county, city or town may issue resort retail liquor licenses to applicants who are owners or lessees of a resort complex where the resort complex satisfies the requirements of subsection (b) of this section.

(b) To qualify for a resort retail liquor license, the appropriate licensing authority shall require the resort complex to:

(i) Have an actual valuation of, or the applicant shall have committed or expended on the complex, not less than one million dollars ($1,000,000.00), excluding the value of the land;

(ii) Include a restaurant and a convention facility, which convention facility shall seat no less than one hundred (100) persons; and

(iii) Include motel, hotel or privately owned condominium, town house or home accommodations approved for short term occupancy with a minimum of one hundred (100) sleeping rooms; or

(A) Repealed by Laws 2015, ch. 49, § 2.

(B) Repealed by Laws 2015, ch. 49, § 2.

(iv) Without being required to meet the standards of paragraph (iii) of this subsection, be a ski resort facility open to the general public in which the applicant shall have committed or expended on the facility not less than ten million dollars ($10,000,000.00).

(c) Nothing contained within this section shall have any effect on resort liquor licenses issued prior to January 1, 1980, or to the right or renewal of a resort liquor license.