Tex. Alco. Bev. Code § 51.03 · Chapter 51. OPERATION OF MINIBARS
LIMITED ACCESS TO MINIBAR.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Minibars shall be of such design as to prevent access to alcoholic beverages to all persons who do not have a minibar key. The minibar key shall be different from the hotel guestroom key, and the mixed beverage permittee may not provide the minibar key to any person who is not of legal drinking age.
(b) A mixed beverage permittee may not provide a minibar key to any person other than an employee of the permittee or a registered guest of the hotel.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 692, Sec. 2, eff. June 14, 1989.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1359 (H.B. 1545), Sec. 153, eff. September 1, 2021.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/AL/htm/AL.51.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 858a7aff0c174330d1e16ca224002d6904450f0c9ffd5ffb60a3f33b0b660391
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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