§ 79-a. Authorization to sell wine products by certain licensees for
consumption off the premises. 1. Any person licensed to sell beer at
retail for consumption off the premises, pursuant to section fifty-four
of this chapter, shall, by virtue of such license and upon payment to
the liquor authority of an additional fee in the sum of one hundred
sixty-five dollars in cities having a population of one hundred thousand
or over and eighty-three dollars elsewhere, be granted authorization to
sell from the licensed premises wine products in sealed containers for
consumption off such premises. Upon receipt of such additional fee, the
liquor authority shall promptly issue a permit authorizing such sales by
the licensee.

2. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, any person
receiving a permit pursuant to this section shall be subject to such
provisions of this chapter as are applicable to persons licensed
pursuant to section fifty-four of this chapter, and not to those
provisions which are applicable only to persons licensed pursuant to
sections sixty-three and seventy-nine of this chapter.