New rules for entertainment districts?

After the Oct. 4 shooting in downtown Montgomery, Gov. Kay Ivey asked Alabama ABC Board Administrator Curtis Stewart for ideas on safety improvements to entertainment districts, which are areas in cities where local ordinances allow open containers of alcohol to varying degrees of regulation.

AL.com’s Mike Cason reports that Stewart has responded to that request with possible changes to administrative rules that wouldn’t require passing legislation. The ideas to consider were:

Prohibiting package stores in an entertainment district from selling products such as cups and ice that facilitate drinking in public.

Limiting the amount of alcohol that special retail licensees can sell for off-premises consumption.

Ivey said she supports those ABC rules

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