HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1668        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 237

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the sale of liquor licenses..

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. Upon the acceptance of this section by a city or town, said city or town may assess and collect a fee for any license issued by the city or town pursuant to chapter 138 of the General Laws when such license is sold by the licensee to another licensee.  Said fee shall be assessed at the time of approval of the transfer of the license by the city or town.  Said fee shall be established by the city or town in an amount not to exceed 25 per cent of the amount paid for the license.

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