HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 5196

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, December 16, 2020.

The committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure to whom was referred the petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 5118) of Carmine Lawrence Gentile, James B. Eldridge and Michael J. Barrett (by vote of the town) that the town of Sudbury be authorized to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises in said town, reports recommending that the accompanying bill (House, No. 5196) ought to pass.

For the committee,

TACKEY CHAN.

        FILED ON: 12/11/2020

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 5196

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 Sudbury to grant an additional license for the sale of 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 licensing authority of the town of Sudbury may grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises pursuant to section 12 of said chapter 138 to an establishment located in Building 2,3,4 or 5 within the development known as Meadow Walk, 526-534 Boston Post Road, Sudbury. The license shall be subject to all of said chapter 138 except said section 17.

(b) A license granted under this act 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 under this act to a location outside of Building 2, 3, 4, or 5 of the Meadow Walk development, but it may grant such license to a new applicant within said development as so limited in subsection (a) 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 under this act, or any such license is cancelled, revoked or no longer in use, the license 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 in the Meadow Walk development under the same conditions as specified in this act.

(e) All licenses granted under this act shall be issued within 3 years 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 subsections (c) or (d) thereafter.

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