Bill > SB673

This bill amends existing New Mexico law to allow restaurants, referred to as "dispenser, canopy licensee or restaurant licensee," to permit customers to bring their own bottles of wine onto the licensed premises and consume them with a meal, with the establishment potentially charging a "corkage fee" for uncorking and serving it. Additionally, the bill clarifies that customers who have purchased a full-course meal and consumed a portion of wine, whether purchased at the restaurant or brought in under the new provision, can take an opened, partially consumed bottle of wine home, provided the restaurant reseals it in a tamper-proof bag and attaches a receipt or notation confirming the wine was consumed with the meal on the premises, and the customer transports it legally if operating a motor vehicle.