SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2518

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
(2023-2024)

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SENATE, November 20, 2023.

The committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure to whom was referred the petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 219) of Walter F. Timilty, William J. Driscoll, Jr. and Brandy Fluker Oakley (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Milton to issue a license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises, reports the accompanying bill (Senate, No. 2518).

For the committee,

John J. Cronin

        FILED ON: 11/15/2023

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2518

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
(2023-2024)

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An Act authorizing the town of Milton to issue 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 sections 11, 11A and 17 of chapter 138 of the General Laws, the town of Milton 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 1 Eliot Street LLC  located at 1 Eliot Street in the town.  Said license shall be subject to all of said chapter 138, except said sections 11, 11A, and 17.

(b) A license granted under this section shall only be exercised in the dining room of a common victualler and other such 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 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 under this section or if any such license is cancelled, revoked, or no longer in use it shall be returned, physically with all the legal rights, privileges, and restrictions pertaining thereto, to the licensing authority, which may, within 3 years after such return, grant the license to a new applicant at the same location and under the same conditions as specified in this section, otherwise such license shall dissolve.

(e) The license granted under this act shall be issued within 3 years after the effective date of this act; provided, however, that if the license is originally granted within that time period, it may be granted to a new applicant under subsections (c) and (d) anytime thereafter.

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