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Florida Responsible Vendor Managers Course
This course meets the Responsible Vendor training requirements set by the Florida Dept. of Business and Professional Regulation.
The Florida Responsible Vendor Act is a voluntary program established for Florida licensees in an effort to reduce instances of alcohol sales and service to intoxicated individuals and underage persons.
By following the guidelines set by the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco (see below), a licensee is taking important steps to protect themselves from liability in the case of a violation. Penalties may be mitigated for licensees complying with the Responsible Vendors Act.
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The following guidelines must be met:
To qualify as a responsible vendor, the vendor must:
Provide a course of instruction for its employees that must include subjects dealing with alcoholic beverages and may also include subjects dealing with controlled substances as follows (this course):
Require each nonmanagerial employee who is employed to serve alcoholic beverages to complete the employee training course specified in subsection (1) within 30 days after commencing employment. The vendor must provide for the supervision of such an employee in the service of alcoholic beverages until the employee has received such training.
Require each managerial employee to complete the managerial training course specified in subsection (2) within 15 days after commencing employment.
Require all employees to attend one meeting every 4 months. Each meeting must include the dissemination of information covering the applicable subjects specified in this section and an explanation of the vendor’s policies and procedures relating to those subjects.
Require each employee, as a condition of her or his initial employment, to complete a written questionnaire providing the vendor the same information as is required by the division from persons who apply for alcoholic beverage licenses and to determine therefrom whether the employee is precluded by law from serving or selling alcoholic beverages; however, employees of vendors licensed under s. 563.02(1)(a) or s. 564.02(1)(a) shall not be subject to the requirements of this subsection.
Establish a written policy under which any employee who engages in the illegal use of controlled substances on the licensed premises will be immediately dismissed from employment and require each employee to acknowledge the policy in writing.
Maintain employment records of the applications, acknowledgments, and training of its employees required by this section and records of the vendor’s enforcement of the policies requiring dismissal specified in subsection (7).
Post signs on the vendor’s premises informing customers of the vendor’s policy against serving alcoholic beverages to underaged persons and informing customers that the purchase of alcoholic beverages by an underaged person or the illegal use of or trafficking in controlled substances will result in ejection from the premises and prosecution.
Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco
1940 North Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399
Phone: 850.487.1395
Fax: 850.922.5175
http://www.myfloridalicense.com/Dbpr/abt/index.html
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