FILED ON: 1/23/2014

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3866

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Fourteen

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An Act authorizing the town of Wellesley to place a question on the town election ballot authorizing the town to grant 6 licenses for the sale of wines and malt beverages not to be drunk on the premises.

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 sections 11, 15, or 17 of chapter 138 of the General Laws or any other General or Special law to the contrary, the licensing authority in the Town of Wellesley may grant a license for the sale of wines and malt beverages not to be drunk on the premises pursuant to section 15 of said chapter 138. The licensing authority may grant not more than 6 licenses for the sale of wines and malt beverages under section 15 of said chapter.  Except as otherwise provided herein, such licenses shall be subject to the provisions of said chapter 138.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding section 11 of chapter 138 of the General Laws as to the time and manner of voting on the question, this act shall be submitted for its acceptance to the voters of the Town of Wellesley at an annual or special town election in the form of the following question:-

“Shall an act passed by the General Court in the year 2014, entitled `An Act authorizing the Town of Wellesley to place a certain question relative to the sale of wines and malt beverages not to be drunk on the premises authorizing a total of 6 licenses on the Town’s election ballot’, be accepted?”

If a majority of the votes cast in answer to the question is in the affirmative, the Town of Wellesley shall be taken to have authorized the granting of licenses for the sale of wines and malt beverages not to be drunk on the premises and a total of 6 licenses shall be authorized.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.