FILED ON: 4/9/2014

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4054

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Fourteen

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An Act authorizing the city of New Bedford to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages 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 section 17 of chapter 138 of the General Laws, the local licensing authority of the City of New Bedford may grant a license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises pursuant to section 12 of said chapter 138 to Irmandade do Divino Espirito Santo do Pico, Inc. located at 2056 Acushnet Avenue in the City of New Bedford.  The license shall be subject to all of said chapter 138 except section 17.  

The licensing authority shall not approve the transfer of the license to any other location, but it may grant the license to a new applicant at the same location if the applicant therefore files with the licensing authority a letter from the department of revenue and a letter from the department of unemployment assistance indicating that the license is in good standing with those entities and that all applicable taxes, fees, and contributions have been paid.

If the license granted under this section is cancelled, revoked or no longer in use at the location of original issuance, it shall be returned physically, with all of the legal rights, privileges and restrictions pertaining thereto, to the licensing authority which may then grant the license to a new applicant at the same location under the same conditions as specified in this act.

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