What are the liquor laws ("Blue Laws") in your state?!
DON'T answer just to say you are underage or you don't drink or you're just going to preach. This is just a survey.
Please say the state and the liquor laws (i.e. do they sell hard liquor on Sundays or just beer and wine or no alcohol at all? What time are the liquor stores required to close in your state? Is it different on Sunday? Are stores in your state allowed to sell beer and wine when it isn't allowed to sell hard liquor?)
Tell me all you know about the liquor laws in your state. If you don't want to tell me the state you live in, just tell me a state you know with the dumbest liquor laws and why.
Answers: Please answer this question if you actually know the liquor laws.
DON'T answer just to say you are underage or you don't drink or you're just going to preach. This is just a survey.
Please say the state and the liquor laws (i.e. do they sell hard liquor on Sundays or just beer and wine or no alcohol at all? What time are the liquor stores required to close in your state? Is it different on Sunday? Are stores in your state allowed to sell beer and wine when it isn't allowed to sell hard liquor?)
Tell me all you know about the liquor laws in your state. If you don't want to tell me the state you live in, just tell me a state you know with the dumbest liquor laws and why.
I recently moved to Missouri and am still not familiar so I'll go back to South Carolina.
You cannot purchase alcohol on Sunday except in a few areas close to the beach. You have to go to the liquor store to purchase liquor, which close at 7 pm. Beer can be purchased at the grocery/convenience store. There are many "private" clubs in which they can skirt around some of these laws. SC just recently went from mini-bottles to free pour.
To make the Blue Laws even more unbearable, we lived in Lexington County where one is not able to buy non-food items (there are some exceptions such as diapers, etc) before 1:30 pm on Sunday.
Georgia Stop serving at 2 am on Fri. 12. midnight on Sat. In the city I live in they can serve only a drink at a time on Sunday if the place serves mostly food. You want be able to buy anything alcoholic in a store. Most places in Georgia don't even serve on Sundays at all. The city must pass that ordinance.
I live in Oregon and I'm a checker at Albertsons. Liquer, anything that is not beer or wine, can only be sold in state run liquor stores. They are independantly owned, and the owners choose the days to be open, although no alcocol may be sold between 1am and 7am. You must be 21 years old to purchase ANYTHING at a liquor store, even a plastic shot glass.
At a grocery store, if one person is buying beer or wine, and their friend does not have their ID, neither of them gets the booze. All people in the alcohol purchaser's party must have their ID. (Exceptions are made when it's obvious that some of them are the person's children) The ID must be current, readable and undamaged, no cracks or discoloration.
People get pissed off at me all the time because I'm a real hardass when it comes to this policy. I know most of the time somebody's friend IS 21 and sometimes I feel bad about doing it, but the consequences I could face if I accidentally sold to a minor are a $1000 fine and firing on the spot, which just aint worth it. I'll take a mad customer anyday over losing my job just so someone can have a beer.
I live in Minnesota.
Recently, liquor stores have been allowed to stay open until 10pm, monday through thursday. Previously they were only open until 8pm during those days, and 10pm fridays and saturdays. Most are now open until 10pm, unless it is a "rough" part of town.
Beer is sold in gas stations and grocery stores, but only the 3.2 beer (weak).
Liquor stores are closed on Sundays, but you can buy the 3.2 beer at the gas stations.
The reason the LQ stores are closed on sundays I believe stems from strict religious beliefs. But have evolved to the reasoning that LQ store employees need a day off...?
If I fail to plan ahead for a Sunday or Monday boozing night, I can always travel 25 minutes to the nearest WI LQ store. Wisonsin LQ stores have relatively lax laws, compared to MN anyways.
In Washington, we have state-run liquor stores.
Grocery and convenience stores can sell wina and beer, but ALL hard liquor is sold in the state store. One near me is open 11a-8pm.
In order to be sold in the state store, it must be "listed", or on the approved list. Many products don't get on the list - either the board decides that we don't need it, or that it has no appeal to large group, or they didn't pay a large enough bribe to get approval.
A typical liquor store in this state is small - limited choices, and very high prices.
This is a "3 tier" system, which means that the state is an added step in the wholesale/retail pipeline, and adds costs. This is the only way that liquor stores can lose money, and still continue to operate. How do we do that? Taxpayers continue to pay for incompetence in our liquor sales.
Washington State might someday join the 21st century, but when it comes to liquor sales, it prolly won't be until the 25th century.
The Big Easy. Home of the drive thru daiquiri shops!
Since California is a late comer to the Union there are not a lot of blue laws.
Basicly you can buy any kind of liquor (hard liquor, beer wine etc.) at any grocery store or liquor store (not run by the state).
You can buy anything you want between 6 am and 2 am any day of the week. California has no laws whatever regarding Sundays.
Bars/clubs are required to stop liquor sales right at 2 am and the law states that you can not have any kind of liquor on the table or bar in front fo you at 2 am. As such so called "last call" is usually around 1:30 or so. If the estblisment sees any alcoholic drink sitting in front of you after 2 am they are required by law to take it away from you. If you have a drink in front of you on the bar or on a table at 2:01 am they (and in theory you) can get into trouble.
You can buy any thing you want in any kind of store (provided they have a license of course) btween 6 am and 2 am.
Beer and wine are sold in gas stations and convenience stores and once in a while (but not very often) they sell hard liquor too.
No alcohol at all can be sold within 100 yards of a school or Church.
A store or bar can not sell you any kind of alcohol if you visable appear to be intoxicated. Although at times local stores and bars often times violate this rule if you are a regular. Especially local stores if they (and you!) know you are not driving.
If you get busted for drunk driving and it can be proven that the last place that served you knew you were drunk they could be held liable and this would include a persons home as well.
In California you are free to whoop it up 24/7 in your home provided you don't drive nor let people visable drunk drive.