SECTION 1. (a)   Notwithstanding section 17, of chapter 138 of the General Laws, the licensing authority of the City of Woburn may issue up to 8 additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises pursuant to section 12 of said chapter 138, provided said licenses shall be issued within one of the four geographical zones, hereinafter described, and provided further that no more than 2 such licenses shall be issued in any one zone.

Liquor Zones A, B, C, and D are hereby established, and comprise the area designated on the City of Woburn Zoning Map as the “Commerce Way Overlay District.”  The specific properties contained within each respective zone are as shown on the City of Woburn Assessors Maps, designated as follows:

Liquor Zone A

Liquor Zone B

Liquor Zone C

Liquor Zone D

(b)  The local licensing authority shall not approve the transfer of a license issued within one Liquor Zone to a location outside the specific Liquor Zone of original issuance. A license granted pursuant to this paragraph shall be nontransferable to any other person, corporation or organization. A license issued under this paragraph, if revoked or no longer in use at the street address of original issuance shall be returned physically, with all of the legal rights and privileges thereto, to the licensing board which may grant any such returned license to a new applicant consistent with the criteria set forth in this paragraph at the same street address provided that an applicant for said license files with said authority a letter in writing from the Department of Revenue indicating that said licensee is in good standing with said Department and that any and all applicable taxes have been paid.

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