UBC Law Students' Society

Congratulations!  Your club or sports team has been assigned a bzzr-up.  This is a great way to raise money for your organization, and to provide some merriment and cheer around the law school.  Here are the ABCs of hosting a bzzr-up:

ADVERTISE: The only way to make money is to make sure people come.  We encourage you to make some of your  own posters — this way people will know about your group and the bzzr.  NOTE THAT YOU CANNOT ADVERTISE THAT THE BZZR IS FREE.  Send your advertising e-mails to ubclaw@interchange.ubc.ca.

BINS: In order to have cold bevvies, you need to come to the LSS office around 2:30pm to get the recycling bins and garbage bags to fill with ice.

COLD: Your group is responsible for finding ice, most people drive down to the UBC ice rink (when it is open and functioning) and shovel ice into the buckets, but you could spend your club money to buy ice. 

DRINKS (and other stuff): You need to have a representative fill out the Beer Society contract & pick up the cash box (you get a $90 float) and bzzr.  Don't forget to have snacks on hand for your bzzr-up patrons!

EVERYTHING ELSE:  You need to set the tables up in Candida's to sell the bzzr and put separate people in charge of (1) selling tickets and (2) handing out bzzr.  You also need to clean up after the bzzr-up - that includes gathering all empties and putting them into the giant recycling bins for our friendly janitorial staff to dispose of afterwards.

FOLLOW THE RULES: Rules are important.  You MUST follow all of the rules below.  Why, you ask?  Otherwise, the LSS runs the risk of losing its liquor license, which means no more bzzr-ups.  No bzzr = sad law students.  And you don't want to be sad, do you?

HAVE FUN: Boost your bzzr-up numbers by doing something special - board games, karaoke, raffles, snowball fights, foosball/croquet/bocce ball tournaments, etc. 

If you have any questions about hosting your bzzr-up, please email Dan Barber, Director of Sports, Clubs and Development. 

If you need to be reimbursed (from your club funds) for any bzzr-up related expenses, please download a Payment Request Form and submit it to the ED Finance's mailbox outside the LSS office.  If you have any questions about reimbursements, visit the Finance page or email schultz(dot)jordan(at)gmail(dot)com.

And here are the Bzzr-up Rules!

• Read the Cop's Checklist, attached below.

  At all times, a Serving It Right Licensee Certificate holder must be on the premises.  If managers are left in charge of functions, paid or unpaid, they must be certified in the licensee component of this program.

• A licensee, and the employees of the licensee, must not consume liquor while working in the licensed establishment.

• A licensee must post his or her licence in a conspicuous place in the licensed establishment.

• A licensed establishment in which liquor is sold or provided under a special occasion license must be enclosed and all means of access to the establishment must be supervised to the satisfaction of the local police authority.

• Have someone at the door monitoring how many people have come in, and ensuring that they are all of-age law students.  Anyone leaving should NOT have alcohol on them!

• Legally, you are required to refuse service to persons who are minors, intoxicated, or known to be “trouble looking for a place to happen” (this means you Matt Brandon). Generally acceptable forms of ID are a Canadian passport, BC Identity Card or a BC Driver's License.  We can be found in contravention of the Act for failing to ID anyone who appears to be under 25.

• Make sure you have some sort of food to provide to the people at the bzzr-up, such as bags of chips, mini chocolate bars, etc.

• No alcohol is permitted outside of the designated area – usually Candida’s

  • that means that even if I have given you the beer to keep in the LSS office because I will be at class, from the time the beer up is scheduled to begin, all of the alcohol you are going to sell MUST be in Candida’s

  • NO ONE is to bring alcohol outside of Candida’s!!!

•  Absolutely NO outside alcohol brought in to event

• The amount of beer on your license is the only beer available

  • If your license is for 80 people for example, that is the amount of beer that has been ordered i.e. the license permits that 3-5 beers are available per person (including cider). Once that amount has been sold there is no more beer available for sale.·········                                               

• If you license is for 80 people and 20 people show up,

  • you must ONLY sell up to 100 beers (including cider)

  • said another way: you must re consider the amount of alcohol you are allowed to sell – 3-5 beers per person (extra alcohol must be put aside and not be cooling).

• A licensee must make available to patrons a list that shows, for all types of liquor sold in the licensed establishment, the quantities in which and prices at which the liquor is sold.

• Must ensure that patrons are cleared from the licensed establishment within 1/2 hour after the time stated on the licence for the hours of liquor service

• Liquor delivered within British Columbia under section 38 (2) of the Act must be accompanied by a delivery receipt that is available for inspection and includes the

  • name and address of the purchaser,

  • date of the purchase,

  • price of the liquor,

  • time of delivery, and

  • delivery service charge.

• A consignee receiving a delivery of liquor and a delivery receipt must keep the delivery receipt for a period of one year and keep it available for inspection.