Sec. 12. The commission may issue a three-way permit for the sale of alcoholic beverages to the proprietor of a restaurant which is located outside the corporate limits of an incorporated city or town if the restaurant meets the additional requirements:

(1) It shall be a table service restaurant in which a patron is seated at a table and is served by a waiter or waitress and the food served is predominantly consumed on the premises.

(2) It shall be sufficiently served by adequate law enforcement at its premises.

(3) If it does business during seven (7) or more months of each year, it shall have had an annual gross food sales of at least one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the three (3) years immediately preceding its application for a permit unless the permittee is the proprietor of a recreational facility such as a golf course, bowling center, or similar facility that has the recreational activity and not the sale of food and beverages as the principal purpose or function of the person’s business.

(4) If it does business during six (6) or fewer months of each year, it shall have had average monthly gross food sales of at least eight thousand five hundred dollars ($8,500) for each month it did business for the three (3) years immediately preceding its application for a permit.

[Pre-1973 Recodification Citation: 7-1-1-8(4)(e).]

Formerly: Acts 1973, P.L.55, SEC.1; Acts 1975, P.L.72, SEC.2. As amended by P.L.85-1985, SEC.11; P.L.106-1995, SEC.14; P.L.224-2005, SEC.14.