CHAPTER 194

(SB 3)

Alcoholic beverage, convention facility license requirements revised.

         ENTITLED, An Act to  revise the convention facility on-sale alcoholic beverage license requirements.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  That § 35-4-11.2 be amended to read as follows:

     35-4-11.2.   Notwithstanding the provisions of §   35-4-11, each municipality may issue two convention facility on-sale licenses for convention facilities substantially constructed within the two years following issuance of such license or previously completed . A If located in a first class municipality, the hotel-motel convention facility as used in this section is a facility located in South Dakota and in a bona fide manner shall be used and kept open for the hosting of large groups of guests for compensation which has and shall have at least one hundred rooms which are suitable lodging accommodations and convention facilities with seating for at least four hundred persons. However, for the purposes of If located in a second or third class municipality, the hotel-motel convention facilities located in municipalities other than municipalities of the first class, the minimum number of rooms required as facility shall have at least forty rooms which are suitable lodging accommodations shall be fifty rooms and convention facilities with seating for at least one hundred fifty persons .

     Signed March 19, 2003.

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