128 Relating to: the possession and consumption of alcohol beverages on retail licensed premises in a park in a 1st class city.

Date of enactment: February 17, 2010
2009 Assembly Bill 248 Date of publication*: March 3, 2010

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2007-08 : Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

2009 WISCONSIN ACT 128

An Act to amend 125.32 (6) (a); and to create 125.32 (6) (c) and 125.68 (13) of the statutes; relating to: the possession and consumption of alcohol beverages on retail licensed premises in a park in a 1st class city.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1 . 125.32 (6) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

125.32 (6) (a) Except as provided in s. 125.33 (2) (o) or (12) or 125.70, and subject to par. (c), no person may possess on the premises covered by a retail or wholesale fermented malt beverages license or permit any alcohol beverages not authorized by law for sale on the premises.

Section 2 . 125.32 (6) (c) of the statutes is created to read:

125.32 (6) (c) Paragraph (a) does not prohibit a licensee under s. 125.26 from allowing, if the licensed premises are located in a public park within a 1st class city, a person who does not hold a license or permit under this chapter to possess and consume on the licensed premises fermented malt beverages that were not purchased from the licensee.

Section 3 . 125.68 (13) of the statutes is created to read:

125.68 (13) Intoxicating liquor not purchased on retail premises in a park. No provision of this chapter prohibits a licensee under s. 125.51 (3) from allowing, if the licensed premises are located in a public park within a 1st class city, a person who does not hold a license or permit under this chapter to possess and consume on the licensed premises intoxicating liquor that was not purchased from the licensee.