ARTICLE I. IN GENERAL
For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR: | Any spirituous or fermented fluid, substance or compound, other than malt beverage, intended for beverage purposes which contains more than half percent (.05%) of alcohol by volume. |
BREWERY: | A commercial enterprise at a single location producing more than fifty thousand (50,000) barrels per year of malt beverage. |
BUILDING: | A roofed and walled structure built or set in place for permanent use. |
CLUB: | Any of the following organizations: |
A. A post, charter, camp or other local unit composed only of veterans and its duty organized auxiliary, chartered by the Congress of the United States for patriotic, fraternal or benevolent purposes and, as the owner, lessee or occupant, operates an establishment for these purposes within the State; | |
B. A chapter, lodge or other local unit of an American national fraternal organization and, as the owner, lessee or occupant, operates an establishment for fraternal purposes within the State. As used in this definition, an “American fraternal organization” means an organization actively operating in no less than thirty six (36) states or having been in active continuous existence for not less than twenty (20) years, but does not mean a college fraternity; | |
C. A hall or building association of a local unit specified in subsections A and B of this definition, of which all of the capital stock is owned by the local unit or its members, operating clubroom facilities for the local unit; | |
D. A golf club having more than fifty (50) bona fide members and owning, maintaining or operating a bona fide golf course, together with a clubhouse; | |
E. A social club with more than one hundred (100) bona fide members who are residents of the county in which it is located, owning, maintaining or operating club quarters, incorporated and operating solely as a nonprofit corporation under the laws of this State and qualified as a tax-exempt organization under the Internal Revenue Service Code and having been continuously operating for a period of not less than one year. The club shall have had during this one-year period a bona fide membership paying dues of at least twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per year as recorded by the Secretary of the club, quarterly meetings and an actively engaged membership carrying out the objects of the club. A social club shall, upon applying for a license, file with the licensing authority and the commission, a true copy of its bylaws and shall further, upon applying for a renewal of its license, file with the licensing authority and commission a detailed statement of its activities during the preceding year which were undertaken or furthered in pursuit of the objects of the club, together with an itemized statement of amounts expended for such activities. Club members, at the time of application for a limited retail liquor license pursuant to Wyoming Statutes section 12-4-301, shall be in good standing by having paid at least one full year of dues. | |
COMMISSION: | The Wyoming Liquor Division within the Department of Revenue created under Wyoming Statutes section 12-2-106. |
MICROWBREWERY: | A commercial enterprise producing not more than fifty thousand (50,000) barrels per year and no less than fifty (50) barrels per year of malt beverage. |
OPERATIONAL: | Offering for sale on an ongoing weekly basis to the general public alcoholic liquor and malt beverages as authorized under a license or permit issued. |
RESTAURANT: | Space in a building maintained, advertised and held out to the public as a place where individually priced meals are prepared and served primarily for on premises consumption and where the primary source of revenue from the operation is from the sale of food and not from the sale of alcoholic or malt beverages. The building shall have a dining room or rooms, a kitchen and the number and kinds of employees necessary for the preparing, cooking and serving of meals in order to satisfy the licensing authority that the space is intended for use as a restaurant |
SELL OR SALE: | Offering for sale, trafficking in, bartering, delivering or dispensing and pouring for value, exchanging for goods, services or patronage, or an exchange in any way other than purely gratuitously. Every delivery of an alcoholic liquor or malt beverage made otherwise than by gift constitutes a “sale”. |
WHOLESALER: | Any person, except the commission, who sells any alcoholic or malt beverage to a retailer for resale. (Ord. 2006-07, 5-2-2006) |
WINERY: | A commercial enterprise manufacturing wine at a single location in Wyoming. (Ord. 2006-07, 5-2-2006; amd. Ord. 2022-10, 11-15-2022) |