WEST virginia legislature
2019 regular session
Committee Substitute
for
House Bill 2481
By Delegates Steele, Foster, Kessinger, Pushkin, Barrett and Pyles
[Introduced January 17,
2019; Referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §60-3A-18 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to permitting retail liquor licensees to sell certain alcoholic beverages after 1 p.m. on Sundays.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 3A. SALES BY RETAIL LIQUOR LICENSEES.
§60-3A-18. Days and hours retail licensees may sell liquor.
Retail licensees may not
sell liquor on Sundays and Christmas day, or before 1 p.m. on Sundays,
or between the hours of 12 midnight and eight o'clock a.m., except that wine
and fortified wines may be sold on those days and at such times as authorized
in §60-8-34 of this code.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to permit retail sale of alcoholic beverages on Sundays after 1 p.m.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.