Bill > S2508

This bill authorizes the city of Amesbury to issue three additional liquor licenses for establishments that serve alcoholic beverages to be consumed on-site, overriding a general restriction on the number of such licenses. These new licenses will be subject to most of the existing alcohol licensing laws, referred to as chapter 138 of the General Laws, but will be exempt from the specific section that limits the total number of licenses. The city's licensing authority has the discretion to limit these licenses to businesses that also hold a common victualler license, which is a license to prepare and serve food. Once issued, these licenses cannot be moved to a different location, but they can be transferred to a new applicant at the same location if the applicant demonstrates they are current on all taxes and fees owed to the state's departments of revenue and unemployment assistance. If a license is no longer in use, it will be returned to the licensing authority, which can then issue it to a new applicant at the same location under the same conditions.