By Dutton H.B. No. 3056
77R9268 T
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the violation of an individual's civil rights on
1-3 premises where alcoholic beverages are sold.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 104.01, Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 104.01. LEWD, IMMORAL, INDECENT CONDUCT. No person
1-8 authorized to sell beer at retail, nor his agent, servant, or
1-9 employee, may engage in or permit conduct on the premises to the
1-10 retailer which is lewd, immoral, offensive to public decency,
1-11 including, but not limited to any of the following acts:
1-12 (1) the use of loud or vociferous or obscene, vulgar,
1-13 or indecent language, or permitting its use;
1-14 (2) the exposure of person or permitting a person to
1-15 expose his person;
1-16 (3) rudely displaying or permitting a person to rudely
1-17 display a pistol or other deadly weapon in a manner calculated to
1-18 disturb persons in the retail establishment;
1-19 (4) solicitation of any person to buy drinks for
1-20 consumption by the retailer or any of his employees;
1-21 (5) being intoxicated on the licensed premises;
1-22 (6) permitting lewd or vulgar entertainment or acts;
1-23 (7) permitting solicitations of persons for immoral or
1-24 sexual purposes;
2-1 (8) failing or refusing to comply with state or
2-2 municipal health or sanitary laws or ordinances; [or]
2-3 (9) possession of a narcotic or any equipment used or
2-4 designed for the administration of a narcotic or permitting a
2-5 person on the licensed premises to do so; or
2-6 (10) violation of an individual's civil rights or the
2-7 discrimination against an individual on the basis of the
2-8 individual's race, creed, or national origin.