The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXIV
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND TOBACCO

Chapter 562
BEVERAGE LAW: ENFORCEMENT

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F.S. 562.131

562.131 Solicitation for sale of alcoholic beverage prohibited; penalty.—

(1) It is unlawful for any licensee, his or her employee, agent, servant, or any entertainer employed at the licensed premises or employed on a contractual basis to entertain, perform or work upon the licensed premises to beg or solicit any patron or customer thereof or visitor in any licensed premises to purchase any beverage, alcoholic or otherwise, for such licensee’s employee, agent, servant, or entertainer.

(2) It is unlawful for any licensee, his or her employee, agent, or servant to knowingly permit any person to loiter in or about the licensed premises for the purpose of begging or soliciting any patron or customer of, or visitor in, such premises to purchase any beverage, alcoholic or otherwise.

(3) Any violation of this section is a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

History.—ss. 1-3, ch. 61-234; s. 1, ch. 65-111; s. 565, ch. 71-136; s. 2, ch. 72-230; s. 862, ch. 97-103.

F.S. 562.131 on Google Scholar

F.S. 562.131 on Casetext

Amendments to 562.131

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 562.131

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S562.131 - LIQUOR - SOLICITATION OF DRINKS - M: S

S562.131 - LIQUOR - SOLICITATION OF DRINKS SUBSQ OFF - F: T

S562.131 2 - LIQUOR - PERMIT LOITERER ON LICENSED PREMISES - M: S

S562.131 2 - LIQUOR - PERMIT LOITERER ON LIC PREMISES SUBSQ OFF - F: T

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

L. SHEVIN, H. v. BOCACCIO, INC. a d b a d b a, 379 So. 2d 105 (Fla. 1979)

. . . the Court on direct appeal from a circuit court which held the “B-girl” prohibition statute, section 562.131 . . . We find section 562.131 to be constitutional. . . . Section 562.131, Florida Statutes (1977), provides: Solicitation for sale of alcoholic beverage prohibited . . .

STREET, INC. d b a v. BOARD OF BUSINESS REGULATION, DIVISION OF BEVERAGE OF DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS REGULATION,, 330 So. 2d 821 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1976)

. . . . § 562.131 (1973) is directed. . . . . § 562.131(2) (1973). . . . . § 562.131(1) (1973), which forbids “any licensee, his employee, agent, servant, or any entertainer . . . of Fla.Stat. § 562.131(2) (1973). . . . Only because the respondent has insisted that the conduct in question violated Fla.Stat. § 562.131(2) . . . The notice to show cause charged petitioner with violation of F.S. 562.131(2) which provides: “It is . . .

TORCH CLUB, INC. a v. B. KEATING,, 174 So. 2d 746 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1965)

. . . licensee begged or solicited customers to purchase for them alcoholic beverages in violation of Section 562.131 . . .

DE JORIS, v. LEE, Jr., 151 So. 2d 830 (Fla. 1963)

. . . The complaint prays that § 562.131, Florida Statutes 1961, F.S.A., be decreed to be void, unconstitutional . . . February 14, 1962, the court denied the temporary restraining order and decreed § 562.131, Florida Statutes . . . The point for determination is whether or not § 562.131, Florida Statutes 1961, F.S.A., is constitutional . . . In support of their contention appellants-say that § 562.131, Florida Statutes 1961,. . . . It is contended that as applied to appellants, § 562.131, Florida Statutes-1961, does this and violates . . .

ENTERTAINMENT CLUBS OF FLORIDA, v. STATE BEVERAGE DEPARTMENT, 19 Fla. Supp. 82 (Leon Cty. Cir. Ct. 1962)

. . . 2) The court finds that the method of operation of this type of business prior to the enactment of §562.131 . . . of the statute so long as the same is not discriminatory; and (4) It is the view of this court that §562.131 . . .