FILED ON: 9/24/2020

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4993

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-First General Court
(2019-2020)

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An Act authorizing the town of Webster 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.  (a) Notwithstanding section 17 of chapter 138 of the General Laws, the local licensing authority of the town of Webster may grant 1 additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises, pursuant to section 12 of chapter 138, to Bench Date Incorporated d/b/a The Rose Room, located at 4 East Main street in the town of Webster. The license shall be subject to all of said chapter 138, except said section 17.

(b) A license granted pursuant to this section shall only be exercised in the dining room of a common victualler and such other public rooms or areas as may be deemed reasonable and appropriate by the licensing authority as certified in writing.

(c) The licensing authority shall not approve the transfer of the license granted pursuant to this section to any other location but it may grant the license to a new applicant at the same location if the applicant 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 departments and that all applicable taxes, fees and contributions have been paid.

(d)  If a licensee terminates or fails to renew a license granted pursuant to this section or any such license is cancelled, revoked or no longer in use, it shall be returned physically, with all of the legal rights, privileges and restrictions pertaining thereto, to the licensing authority, and the licensing authority may then grant the license to a new applicant at the same location pursuant to the same conditions as specified in this section.

(e) All licenses granted pursuant to this section shall be issued within 1 year after the effective date of this act; provided, however, that a license originally granted within that time period may be granted to a new applicant under subsection (c) or (d) thereafter.  

SECTION 2. Upon the issuance of the license authorized pursuant to this act, the licensee shall return physically, with all of the legal rights, privileges and restrictions pertaining thereto, to the licensing authority, its license for the bring your own bottle consumption of beer and wine to be drunk on the premises issued by the town.

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