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

SECTION 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section twelve, section nineteen or section nineteen C of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the town of Amherst shall have the authority to issue to the Amherst Brewing Company, Incorporated, a Massachusetts corporation, a license to sell all alcoholic beverages or a license to sell wines and malt beverages only, as the case may be. Such license shall be issued by and through the license commission of said town in accordance with the provisions of said section twelve of said chapter one hundred and thirty-eight notwithstanding that said Amherst Brewing Company, Incorporated may hold a license pursuant to the provisions of said section nineteen or said section nineteen C of said chapter one hundred and thirty-eight.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.