1. (a)

   1. (1) A hotel or motel holding a public mixed drink permit may sell alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption only in sealed containers from an in-room hospitality unit located in any sleeping room of the permitted hotel or motel occupied by qualified persons.
   2. (2) For the purpose of this section, qualified persons are defined as registered guests, all of whom shall be twenty-one (21) years of age or older.

2. (b)

   1. (1) “In-room hospitality unit” means a closed container, refrigerated or nonrefrigerated, access to the interior of which is restricted by means of a locking device under the control of hotel management.
   2. (2) Each such container shall have permanently affixed thereto a sign that informs the qualified guests of the legal hours the container may be accessed, such hours to correspond to state law regarding the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages.

   3. (3) The in-room hospitality unit herein described must:

      1. (A) Meet such requirements as may be set forth by the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division; and
      2. (B) Be approved by the director in writing before sales may commence from such units.

3. (c)

   1. (1) An in-room hospitality unit may be stocked or inventoried only:

      1. (A) By the permittee or its employees who are twenty-one (21) years of age or older; and
      2. (B) During the hours legally prescribed by law for the sale of alcoholic beverages by the hotel or motel.

   2. (2) The following sizes and quantities of alcoholic beverages are authorized to be placed in and sold from an in-room hospitality unit:

      1. (A) Wine and vinous liquor in one-hundred-eighty-seven-milliliter containers, with no more than a total of eight (8) containers per hospitality unit;
      2. (B) Malt beverages in twelve-ounce or less containers, with no more than a total of eight (8) containers per hospitality unit; and
      3. (C)

4. (i) Upon written approval by the director, distilled spirits may be sold only in two-hundred-milliliter or less size containers.

   1. (ii) Any container size less than two hundred milliliters (200 ml):
5. (a) (a) Is specifically an exception from the provisions of Section 2.19; and

6. (b) (b) May only be sold in such in-room hospitality units.

   1. (iii) No more than a total of fourteen (14) such distilled spirit containers may be maintained in each hospitality unit.

      1. (iv) Based on container size approval, the director shall determine the appropriate number of such containers allowed in the in-room hospitality unit.

         1. (d) The permittee shall remain accountable under applicable law and rule for sales from the in-room hospitality unit the same as if such were made from any other point of sale within the establishment.

Codification Notes: This part as promulgated prior to codification into the Code of Arkansas Rules contained a notation at the end of subsection (d) of this section as follows: “(Amended 7-19-95)”.