A1515

Allows winery licensees to hold retail consumption licenses and operate restaurants; excludes alcohol sales land from farmland tax assessment.

The bill allows holders of plenary or farm winery licenses to also hold plenary retail consumption licenses, enabling them to sell other alcoholic beverages and operate a restaurant adjoining the winery premises. It sets an annual fee of $1,250 for holding both licenses. Additionally, the bill excludes land used for the sale and consumption of alcohol under a plenary retail consumption license from eligibility for the farmland tax assessment under the "Farmland Assessment Act of 1964." It also excludes income from such sales from eligibility in relation to the income requirements of the.