SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2929

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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

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SENATE, October 22, 2020.

The committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure, to whom was referred the recommitted petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2837) of Walter F. Timilty, Bruce J. Ayers, Mark J. Cusack and William J. Driscoll, Jr. (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the city known as the town of Randolph to grant additional liquor licenses, reports the accompanying bill (Senate, No. 2929).

For the committee,

Paul R. Feeney

        FILED ON: 10/21/2020

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2929

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 city known as the town of Randolph to grant additional liquor licenses.

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 Randolph may grant up to two additional licenses for the sale of wines or malt beverages not to be drunk on the premises, pursuant to section 15 of chapter 138 as follows: (i) to Ralph Realty LLC, located at 733 South Main Street in the town of Randolph and (ii) to Center Street Market located at 408 Center Street, also in the town of Randolph. The licenses shall be subject to all of said chapter 138 except said section 17.

(b) The licensing authority shall not approve the transfer of the license pursuant to this act 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.

(c) If the license granted under this act 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.

(d) All licenses granted under this act 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 (b) or (c) thereafter.  

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