SB1870 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB094 09989 LJB 42108 b

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB1870

Introduced 2/25/2005, by Sen. James F. Clayborne, Jr.

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

235 ILCS 5/6-6.5

Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Allows manufacturers, distributors, and importing distributors to provide carbon dioxide filters to a retail licensee. Requires that the cost of a single carbon dioxide filter may not exceed the exact cost of the filter and its installation and provides that a cost adjustment factor may be used to periodically update the cost limit.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning liquor.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Liquor Control Act of 1934 is amended by changing Section 6-6.5 as follows:

(235 ILCS 5/6-6.5)

Sec. 6-6.5. Sanitation. A manufacturer, distributor, or importing distributor may sell coil cleaning services to a retail licensee at fair market cost.

A manufacturer, distributor, or importing distributor may sell dispensing accessories to retail licensees at a price not less than the cost to the manufacturer, distributor, or importing distributor who initially purchased them. Dispensing accessories include, but are not limited to, items such as standards, faucets, cold plates, rods, vents, taps, tap standards, hoses, washers, couplings, gas gauges, vent tongues, shanks, and check valves.

Coil cleaning supplies consisting of detergents, cleaning chemicals, brushes, or similar type cleaning devices may be sold at a price not less than the cost to the manufacturer, distributor, or importing distributor.

A manufacturer, distributor, or importing distributor may, directly or indirectly, sell, supply, furnish, give or pay for, or loan or lease carbon dioxide filters for the premises of a place of business of another licensee authorized under this Act to sell alcoholic liquor at retail for consumption on or off the premises. The cost of a single carbon dioxide filter shall not exceed the exact cost of the filter and its installation. A cost adjustment factor shall be used to periodically update the cost limitation prescribed in this paragraph. The cost adjustment factor shall be computed in the same manner as described in Section 6-6 of this Act except that the base year for the cost adjustment factor shall be 2005.

(Source: P.A. 90-432, eff. 1-1-98.)