Commission's power to issue reception center license

(1) Before a person may store, sell, offer for sale, or furnish an alcoholic product on the person's premises as a reception center, the person shall first obtain a reception center license from the commission in accordance with this part. (2) The commission may issue a reception center license to establish reception center licensed premises at places and in numbers the commission considers proper for the storage, sale, offer for sale, furnishing, and consumption of an alcoholic product on premises operated as a reception center. (3) Subject to Section 32B-1-201, the commission may not issue a total number of reception center licenses that at any time exceeds the sum of: (a) a number determined by dividing the population of the state by 251,693; and (b) four. (4) The commission may not issue a reception center license for premises that do not meet the proximity requirements of Section 32B-1-202. (5) (a) To be licensed as a reception center, a person shall maintain at least 70% of the person's gross revenues from the sale of food. (b) A person complies with Subsection (5)(a) if the percentage calculated by dividing the person's annual markup cost by the sum of the person's annual gross revenues from food sales and the person's annual markup cost does not exceed 30%.