{"id":2037,"date":"2013-06-11T16:42:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mml.org\/wp\/inside208\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2013-06-11T16:42:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:42:59","slug":"house-passes-bill-to-allow-for-wine-sellingtasting-at-farmers-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/06\/11\/house-passes-bill-to-allow-for-wine-sellingtasting-at-farmers-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"House Passes Bill to Allow for Wine Selling\/Tasting at Farmers Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the House passed SB 79, a bill to allow small wine makers (making less than 5,000 gallons of wine per year) to sell and provide tastings at local farmers markets.\u00a0 A new \u201cfarmers market permit\u201d is created that the small wine maker must obtain from the liquor control commission.\u00a0 A small wine maker would have to obtain approval from the farmers market manager and the local police department prior to a permit being issued.<\/p>\n<p>The permits are subject to the quota system.\u00a0 There will be one farmers market permit allowed for every 1500 population in the county.<\/p>\n<p>There is a 60 day implementation period from signage of the bill to allow the Michigan Liquor Control Commission to get all the necessary paperwork around before it goes into effect.\u00a0 There is also a 2 year reporting requirement for the liquor control commission to provide an assessment to the legislature on the effectiveness of these permits and whether they should continue to issue them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nikki Brown is a legislative associate for the League handling economic development and land use issues.\u00a0 She can be reached at nbrown@mml.org or 517-908-0305.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the House passed SB 79, a bill to allow small wine makers (making less than 5,000 gallons of wine per year) to sell and provide tastings at local farmers markets.\u00a0 A new \u201cfarmers market permit\u201d is created that the small wine maker must obtain from the liquor control commission.\u00a0  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","mml-onemagnify-plugin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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