Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 175 - Definitions and General Provisions

• Alcohol: means that substance known as ethyl alcohol or hydrated oxide of ethyl alcohol which is commonly produced by the fermentation or distillation of grain, starch, molasses, sugar, potatoes or other substances, including all solids, powders, crystals, dilutions and mixtures of these substances. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Alpine slide: means a recreational facility open to the general public, equipped with at least one permanent slide and at least one passenger tramway device as described in N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Armed forces: means the United States Army, Army Reserve, Navy, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps, Marine Corps Reserve, Air Force, Air Force Reserve, Space Force, Coast Guard, Coast Guard Reserve, Army National Guard, and the Air National Guard. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:50
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Bed and breakfast: means a building or buildings regularly used and kept open as such in a bona fide manner for the feeding and lodging of transient guests. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Beer: means beer, specialty beer as defined by N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Beverage vendor: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation, including any subsidiaries thereof, which sells beverages or specialty beverages to wholesale distributors. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Bowling facility: means a facility equipped with 6 or more regulation lanes in operating condition. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Brew pub: means a manufacturer of beer, specialty beer, or cider not exceeding 2,500 barrels annually, which as a functional part of its business, maintains a full service restaurant serving the beer it manufactures as well as other beverage and liquor as allowed by N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Brewer: means a person who owns or operates a brewery. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Brewery: means any place or premises where any beer is manufactured and all offices, granaries, mash-rooms, cooling-rooms, vaults, yards, cellars, and storerooms connected therewith or where any part of the process of manufacture of beer is carried on, or where any apparatus connected with such manufacture is kept or used, or where any of the products of brewing or fermentation are stored or kept. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Caterer: means a person who provides meals or other food as well as liquor or beverage service to private groups on premises approved by the commission for such service. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Cider: means either the naturally fermented expressed juice of apples or the fermented expressed juice of apples to which activated yeast is added, containing not less than
  1/2 of one percent alcohol by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, which may contain flavoring, coloring or related ingredients and may be carbonated or fermented in a sealed container to produce a sparkling beverage or liquor. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Cocktail lounge: means a room operated for the purpose of serving liquor and beverages without the benefit of food. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Commission: means the state liquor commission. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Convention center: means a facility with seating for at least 600 persons consisting of at least one public dining area, which shall seat at least 175 persons, where meals are regularly served, and at least one cocktail lounge with a capacity of at least 200 persons, and convention rooms which together shall seat at least 225 persons and which are regularly used for the assembly of persons participating in business, political, professional or other organizational gatherings. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Corporation: means a corporation organized and incorporated under the laws of this state or authorized to transact business within this state. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Designee: means a person designated in writing by the owner or operator of a business to hold the liquor license for that particular business. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Direct shipper: means any licensee outside the state of New Hampshire who accepts orders placed from New Hampshire, by mail, telephone, Internet, or any electronic or other means, for liquor or beverages and who ships, packages for shipment, or facilitates in any way shipment of said liquor or beverages by a licensed carrier to a New Hampshire location. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Drink rail: means a rail or shelf constructed at bar height. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Drug store: means a business licensed under the provisions of N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• E-liquid: means any liquid, oil, or wax product containing, but not limited to, nicotine or cannabis intended for use in devices used for inhalation. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• following: when used by way of reference to any section of these laws, shall mean the section next preceding or following that in which such reference is made, unless some other is expressly designated. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:13
• Food service business: means a business kept, used, maintained, advertised, and held out to the public primarily as a place where meals are served. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Full service restaurant: means a room or rooms capable of seating, at tables with chairs or at booths, at least 20 guests at one time. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Function room: means a room or rooms which may be utilized for private groups in addition to a licensee's full service restaurant public dining room. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Golf facility: means a commercially operated facility, whether publicly or privately owned, offering golf facilities for a fee, having as part of such facilities, a golf course of not less than 9 holes and an average total of not less than 1,000 yards per 9 holes. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Grocery or convenience store: means any retail establishment where groceries are regularly and customarily sold for consumption off premises. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Hotel: means a facility regularly used, maintained and kept open for the feeding and lodging of transient guests. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• License: means the authority granted by the commission to engage in the sale of liquor, wine, beverages, tobacco products, or e-cigarettes otherwise unlawful unless evidenced by such document. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Licensed establishment: means premises licensed to sell liquor, wine or beverages. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Licensee: means the person to whom a license of any kind is issued by the commission. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Limited liability company: means a limited liability company organized under the laws of this state or authorized to transact business within the state. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Liquor: means all distilled and rectified spirits, alcohol, wines, fermented and malt liquors and cider, of over 6 percent alcoholic content by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Liquor and wine representative: means a person who offers for sale or solicits orders for the sale of any liquor or wine or both. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Liquor manufacturer: means a licensee who produces liquor from raw materials by the process of fermentation and distillation. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Liquor vendor: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company or corporation, which sells liquor and fortified wines containing more than 15. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Live entertainment: means at least one person employed with or without compensation to entertain guests or patrons on the premises of a licensed establishment and shall include, but not be limited to, musicians, disc jockeys, theater companies and other related performers. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Mead: means an alcoholic beverage primarily made from honey, water, and yeast, and which may contain fruit, fruit juices, spices, or herbs added before or after fermentation has completed, except that the ratio of fermentable sugars from honey must exceed 50 percent of the total fermentable sugars used to produce mead. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company or corporation. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Premises: means and includes all parts of the contiguous real estate occupied by a licensee over which the licensee has direct or indirect control or interest and which the licensee uses in the operation of the licensed business, and which have been approved by the commission as proper places in which to exercise the licensee's privilege. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Private club: means an organization incorporated under the laws of this state, whose members are equal shareholders, whose assets belong to the members equally, and whose members have an equal vote in club affairs and a right to run for club offices. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Public building: means any building maintained and available for any person, group, or organization, which may include retail business establishments, when they are not open to the public; licensed premises, provided there is a physical, immovable barrier between the licensed business and the rented area; and tents, gazebos, or other defined outdoor areas, provided 2 separate toilet facilities are located in the immediate vicinity. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Racetrack: means a facility which is licensed by the state's lottery commission, for pari-mutuel betting purposes or a commercial motor vehicle racetrack facility with a paved course of at least
  1/4 mile. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• real estate: shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:21
• Rectifier: means a licensee who produces liquor by combining liquor with other products. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Restaurant: means a space, in a suitable or permanent building, kept, used, maintained, advertised and held out to the public to be a place where meals are regularly served. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Retail outlet: means any florist shop, grocery or convenience store, department store, drug store, restaurant, hotel, motel, or any other retail establishment approved by the commission. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Retailer: when used with respect to tobacco products or e-cigarettes, means any person who sells tobacco products or e-cigarettes to consumers, and any vending machine in which tobacco products are sold. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Safekeeping: means a temporary voluntary surrender of the license privileges granted to a licensee, which provides for a moratorium on all licensing requirements under this title for that license type during the period of time the license is placed in safekeeping. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Sampling: means distributing free tobacco products to consumers for promotional purposes. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Service bar: means a permanent area used only for the preparation of liquor, wine or beverage for the service to tables of patrons by employees. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Service bar-portable: means a service bar which is movable and utilized in function or banquet rooms at such times that they are being utilized for private parties. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Single serve: means a specialty beverage container that does not exceed 16 ounces. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Ski facility-downhill: means an area equipped with at least one of the licensed tramway devices defined under N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Specialty beer: means any beer as defined in N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Specialty beverage: means any wine based product or liquor based product with other liquids added for human consumption having a combined alcoholic content of not less than 6 percent alcohol by volume and not more than 8 percent alcohol by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit and sold in single serve ready to drink containers that shall not exceed 16 ounces. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Specialty cider: means either the naturally fermented expressed juice of apples or the fermented expressed juice of apples to which activated yeast is added, either of which contains not less than 8 percent and not more than 12 percent alcohol by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Tenant brewer: means a person who has a brewer's notice approved by the United States Department of the Treasury Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau allowing the person to engage in an alternating brewery proprietorship. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Tobacco products: means cigarettes, loose tobacco, and smokeless tobacco. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• United States: shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
• Vending machine: means any self-service device which, upon insertion of money, tokens, or any other form of payment, dispenses tobacco, cigarettes, or any other tobacco product. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Vessel: means any watercraft approved and inspected by the U. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Wholesale distributor: means a person licensed by the commission to engage in the purchase of beverages only from the holders of wholesale distributor licenses, beverage manufacturer licenses, beverage vendor licenses, brew pub licenses, or nano brewery licenses. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Wine manufacturer retail outlet: means an outlet for the sale, sampling, and promotion of wine and other products manufactured by a wine manufacturer licensee. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Wine vendor: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation, which sells table wine to the state, containing more than 6 percent but not more than 24 percent alcoholic content by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Wine-domestic: means any wine containing more than 6 percent alcohol by volume and not more than 24 percent alcohol by volume, which is manufactured or bottled in this state from grapes or other fruits grown in the state, or brought into the state in their natural state for the purpose of fermentation and blending with wine produced from New Hampshire grapes or fruits, or wine which is brought into this state by a manufacturer to be blended with wine produced from New Hampshire grapes or fruits by a winery located in this state. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Wine-fortified: means wine including aperitif, marsala, muscatel, port, or sherry as traditionally defined by the industry, with an alcohol content of more than 15. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1
• Wine-table: means a product obtained by the fermentation of the natural content of fruit or other agricultural products containing sugar and containing more than 6 percent but not more than 18 percent alcoholic content by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 175:1