Tex. Alco. Bev. Code § 51.04 · Chapter 51. OPERATION OF MINIBARS
STOCKING RESTRICTIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) All employees handling distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages being stocked in the minibar must be at least 18 years of age.
(b) A minibar may not be restocked or replenished during any hours that a mixed beverage permittee may not sell alcoholic beverages at the location as provided by Section 105.03 of this code and it may contain no more than 40 individual containers of alcoholic beverages at any one time.
(c) A minibar may only be maintained, serviced, or stocked with alcoholic beverages by a person who is an employee of the holder of a mixed beverage permit, and no other person shall be authorized to add alcoholic beverages to a minibar or, with the exception of a registered hotel guest consumer, to remove alcoholic beverages from a minibar.
(d) A mixed beverage permit holder who operates a minibar shall adhere to standards of quality and purity of alcoholic beverages prescribed by the commission and shall destroy any alcoholic beverages contained in a minibar on the date which is considered by the manufacturer of the alcoholic beverage to be the date the product becomes inappropriate for sale to a consumer.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 692, Sec. 2, eff. June 14, 1989. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 934, Sec. 47, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1359 (H.B. 1545), Sec. 154, eff. September 1, 2021.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/AL/htm/AL.51.htm
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