The words listed herein shall, unless the context of these regulations or the General Laws or the rules of the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission otherwise require, have the meanings as given herein this §
204-2.
ALCOHOL
All alcohol other than denatured alcohol or alcohol described
in MGL c. 94, § 303A.
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Any liquid intended for human consumption as a beverage and
containing one-half of one percent (1/2 of 1%) or more of alcohol
by volume at 60° F.
CLUB
A corporation chartered for any purpose described in MGL
c. 180, § 2, whether under federal or state law, including
any body or association lawfully operating under a charter granted
by a parent body so chartered, and including also any organization
or unit mentioned in MGL c. 40, § 5, cl. 12, owning, hiring
or leasing a building, or space in a building, of such extent and
character as may be suitable and adequate for the reasonable and comfortable
use and accommodation of its members, provided that its affairs and
management are conducted by a board of directors, executive committee
or similar body chosen by the members at its annual meeting and that
no member or any officer, agent or employee of the club is paid, or
directly or indirectly receives in the form of salary or other compensation
any profits from the disposition or sale of alcoholic beverages beyond
the amount of such salary as may be fixed and voted annually within
two months after January 1 in each year by the members or by its directors
or other governing body and as shall in the judgment of the local
licensing authorities and the Commission be reasonable and proper
compensation for the services of such member, officer, agent or employee.
Such club shall file with the local licensing authorities and the
Commission annually within three months after January 1 in each year
a list of the names and residences of its officers, together with
the amount of salary or compensation received by each employee engaged
in the handling or selling of alcoholic beverages.
COMMISSION
The Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission established under
MGL c. 6, § 43.
HOTEL
A building or part of a building owned or leased and operated
by a person holding a duly issued and valid license as an innholder,
under the provisions of Chapter 140 and provided with adequate and
sanitary kitchen and dining room equipment and capacity for preparing,
cooking and serving suitable food for its guests, including travelers
and strangers and its other patrons and customers, and in addition
meeting and complying with all the requirements imposed upon innholders
under said Chapter 140.
LIQUEUR or CORDIAL
All alcoholic beverages manufactured or produced by mixing
or redistilling neutral spirits, brandy, gin or other distilled spirits
with or over fruits, flowers, plants or pure juices therefrom, or
other natural flavoring materials, or with extracts derived from infusions,
percolations or maceration of such materials and containing no less
than 2 1/2% sugar by weight.
MALT BEVERAGES
All alcoholic beverages manufactured or produced by the process
of brewing or fermentation of malt, with or without cereal grains
or fermentable sugars, or of hops, and containing not more than 12%
of alcohol by weight.
RESTAURANT
Space, in a suitable building, leased or rented or owned
by a person holding a duly issued and valid license as a common victualler
under the provisions of said Chapter 140, and provided with adequate
and sanitary kitchen and dining room equipment and capacity for preparing,
cooking and serving suitable food for strangers, travelers and other
patrons and customers, and in addition meeting and complying with
all the requirements imposed upon common victuallers under said Chapter
140. No advertising matter, screen, curtain or other obstruction which,
in the opinion of the licensing authorities, prevents a clear view
of the interior of a restaurant shall be maintained in or on any window
or door thereof after the said authorities have ordered the removal
of such obstruction and have afforded the licensee thereof a reasonable
opportunity to remove the same.
TAVERN
An establishment where alcoholic beverages may be sold, as
authorized by this chapter, with or without food, to be served to
and drunk by patrons in plain view of other patrons, all entrances
to which shall open directly from a public way. The business conducted
therein shall be open to public view from the sidewalk level and the
establishment shall be properly lighted. No window facing a public
way shall be obstructed by any screen or other object extending more
than five feet above the level of the sidewalk on which the establishment
abuts, but in no event shall any screen or obstruction prevent a clear
view of the interior of said "tavern."
WINES
All fermented alcoholic beverages made from fruits, flowers,
herbs or vegetables and containing not more than 24% of alcohol by
volume at 60° F., except cider containing not more than 3% or
containing more than 6% of alcohol by weight at 60° F.