Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

The board of selectmen of the town of Lanesborough is hereby authorized to impose a condition on any license issued under the provisions of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight of the General Laws limiting the occupancy of a licensed premise to a number less than that certified by any person or state or local agency charged with the administration or enforcement of the state building code or any of its rules or regulations if said board finds that a higher number would not serve the public need or would not protect the common good.

In making such findings the board may consider the area where such premises are located and that a higher occupancy would unreasonably increase disruption, criminal activity, noise, pedestrian traffic, vehicular traffic or parking problems in said area.

Said board may deny an application to increase the occupancy level of a licensed premise or to change the description of a licensed premise on the same basis as above.

Said board may, pursuant to this section, deny liquor license applications citing the occupancy level, in whole or in part, as the basis for such denial, and may condition a liquor license on an occupancy level lower than the occupancy level set pursuant to the said building code or any of its rules and regulations.