Current through the 2024 Fourth Special Session
Section 32B-6-206 - Master full-service restaurant license(1)(a) The commission may issue a master full-service restaurant license that authorizes a person to store, sell, offer for sale, furnish, or allow the consumption of an alcoholic product on premises at multiple locations as full-service restaurants if the person applying for the master full-service restaurant license: (i) owns each of the full-service restaurants;(ii) except for the fee requirements, establishes to the satisfaction of the commission that each location of a full-service restaurant under the master full-service restaurant license separately meets the requirements of this part; and(iii) the master full-service restaurant license includes at least five full-service restaurant locations.(b) The person seeking a master full-service restaurant license shall designate which full-service restaurant locations the person seeks to have under the master full-service restaurant license.(c) A full-service restaurant location under a master full-service restaurant license is considered separately licensed for purposes of this title, except as provided in this section.(2) A master full-service restaurant license and each location designated under Subsection (1) are considered a single full-service restaurant license for purposes of Subsection 32B-6-203(3)(a).(3)(a) A master full-service restaurant license expires on October 31 of each year.(b) To renew a person's master full-service restaurant license, a person shall comply with the renewal requirements of Chapter 5, Part 2, Retail Licensing Process, by no later than September 30.(4)(a) The nonrefundable application fee for a master full-service restaurant license is $330.(b)(i) The initial license fee for a master full-service restaurant license is $5,000 plus a separate initial license fee for each newly licensed full-service restaurant location under the master full-service restaurant license determined in accordance with Subsection 32B-6-204(3)(b).(ii) The department shall prorate the $5,000 initial license fee for the period that begins the day on which the initial license fee is paid and ends the day on which the master full-service restaurant license expires.(c) To renew a master full-service restaurant license the master full-service restaurant licensee shall pay a separate renewal fee for each full-service restaurant location under the master full-service restaurant license in accordance with Subsection 32B-6-204(3)(c).(5) A new location may be added to a master full-service restaurant license after the master full-service restaurant license is issued if: (a) the master full-service restaurant licensee pays a nonrefundable application fee of $330; and(b) including payment of the initial license fee, the location separately meets the requirements of this part.(6)(a) A master full-service restaurant licensee shall notify the department of a change in the persons managing a location covered by a master full-service restaurant license: (i) immediately, if the management personnel is not management personnel at a location covered by the master full-service restaurant licensee at the time of the change; or(ii) within 30 days of the change, if the master full-service restaurant licensee is transferring management personnel from one location to another location covered by the master full-service restaurant licensee.(b) A location covered by a master full-service restaurant license shall keep the location's own records on the location's premises so that the department may audit the records.(c) A master full-service restaurant licensee may not transfer alcoholic products between different locations covered by the master full-service restaurant license.(7) If there is a violation of this title at a location covered by a master full-service restaurant license, the violation may result in disciplinary action in accordance with Chapter 3, Disciplinary Actions and Enforcement Act, against: (a) the single location under a master full-service restaurant license;(b) individual staff of the location under the master full-service restaurant license; or(c) a combination of persons or locations described in Subsections (7)(a) and (b).(8) The commission may make rules, in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, to establish how a person may apply for a master full-service restaurant license under this section.Amended by Chapter 94, 2024 General Session ,§ 17, eff. 5/1/2024.Amended by Chapter 371, 2023 General Session ,§ 20, eff. 5/3/2023.Amended by Chapter 403, 2019 General Session ,§ 24, eff. 5/14/2019.Added by Chapter 349, 2013 General Session ,§ 7, eff. 5/14/2013.