16-4-1005. Licensees required to ensure training, MCA

Montana Code Annotated 2025

TITLE 16. ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, AND MARIJUANA

CHAPTER 4. LICENSE ADMINISTRATION

Part 10. Responsible Alcohol Sales and Service

Licensees Required To Ensure Training

16-4-1005. Licensees required to ensure training. (1) A licensee shall:

(a) require each employee who is authorized to sell, serve, or deliver alcoholic beverages in the normal course of employment and the employee's immediate supervisor to successfully complete training to ensure compliance with state law regarding the sale, service, or delivery of alcoholic beverages. Except as provided in 16-4-307, training must be completed within 60 days of the employee's date of hire, or for existing employees of a newly licensed business, within 60 days of the date of licensure, and every 3 years after the employee's initial training.

(b) maintain employment records verifying employee completion of the training required in subsection (1)(a).

(2) A licensee may apply to the department to allow for the delivery of alcohol to a continuing care retirement community to residents' individual living units, which may include separate cottages or townhomes, within the designated continuing care retirement community campus under 16-4-315 as long as the purchaser is verified to be a current resident of the continuing care retirement community and the person delivering is at least 18 years of age and has completed the responsible server and sales training program as provided in this section. No application fee is required.

History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 412, L. 2011; amd. Sec. 10, Ch. 336, L. 2019; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 75, L. 2025; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 307, L. 2025.