(1) No intoxicant shall be sold except under the authority and subject to the terms and conditions of a licence granted in that behalf:
Provided that, subject to such restrictions and conditions as the Excise Commissioner may by general or special order specify,-
(a) a person having the right to the toddy drawn from any tree may sell such toddy without a licence to a person licensed to manufacture or sell toddy under this Act;
(b) a cultivator or owner of any plant from which an intoxicating drug is produced may sell without a licence those portions of the plant from which the intoxicating drug is manufactured or produced, to any person licensed under this Act to sell, manufacture or export the intoxicating drugs or to any officer, whom the Excise Commissioner may generally or specially authorise.
(2) A licence for sale under sub-section (1), shall be granted,-
(a) by the Deputy Commissioner, if the sale is within a district, or
(b) by the Excise Commissioner, if the sale is in more than one district:
Provided that subject to such conditions as may be determined by the Excise Commissioner, a licence for sale granted under the Excise law in force in any other State may be deemed to be a licence granted under this Act.
(3) Nothing in this section shall apply to the sale of any liquor lawfully procured by any person for his private use and sold by him or on his behalf or on behalf of his representatives in interest upon his quitting a station or after his decease.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) and (2), no club shall supply liquor to its members on payment of a price or of any fee or subscription except under the authority of and subject to the terms and conditions of a licence granted in that behalf by the Excise Commissioner and on payment of such fees according to a scale of fees to be fixed by the State Government in this behalf.
Excise [1966: KAR. ACT 21 380 1[15A. Consumption or allowing consumption of Liquor in unlicensed Public Places.- No person being the owner or incharge of the management or control of any public place shall allow consumption of liquor or no person shall consume liquor in any public place unless consumption of liquor in such place is permitted under a licence granted by the Excise Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner.
Explanation 1.- For the purposes of this section and section 32 “public place” means any public office or any place of public amusement or resort, recreation centre or on board, any passenger boat or vessel or any public passenger vehicle or a dining or refreshment room in a restaurant or hotel where different individuals or groups of persons consume food, but shall not include any private residential room or private residential house.
Explanation 2.- For the purposes of Explanation 1, “public passenger vehicle” means a vehicle used for carrying passengers for hire or reward other than a vehicle which carries passengers for hire or reward under a contract, express or implied for the use of the vehicle as a whole at or for a fixed or agreed rate or sum.]1
1. Inserted by Act 15 of 2001 w.e.f. 19.4.2001.