Massachusetts 2023-2024 Regular Session

Massachusetts House Bill H4849 Compare Versions

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1	1	HOUSE . . . . . . . . No. 4849
2	2	The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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4	4	HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, July 11, 2024.
5	5	The committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure to
6	6	whom was referred the message from Her Excellency the Governor
7	7	authorizing the town of Weston to grant an additional license for the sale of
8	8	all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises (House, No. 4759),
9	9	reports recommending that the accompanying bill (House, No. 4849) ought
10	10	to pass.
11	11	For the committee,
12	12	TACKEY CHAN. 1 of 2
13	13	FILED ON: 7/9/2024
14	14	HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 4849
15	15	The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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17	17	In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
18	18	(2023-2024)
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20	20	An Act authorizing the town of Weston to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic
21	21	beverages to be drunk on the premises.
22	22	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
23	23	of the same, as follows:
24	24	1 SECTION 1. (a) Notwithstanding section 17 of chapter 138 of the General Laws, the
25	25	2licensing authority of the town of Weston may grant an additional license for the sale of all
26	26	3alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises pursuant to section 12 of said chapter 138 to BU
27	27	4West, LLC., located at the Josiah Smith Tavern and Barn, 358 Boston Post Road, Weston. The
28	28	5license shall be subject to all of said chapter 138 except said section 17.
29	29	6 (b) A license granted under this section shall only be exercised in the dining room of a
30	30	7common victualler and such other public rooms or areas as may be deemed reasonable and
31	31	8appropriate by the licensing authority as certified in writing.
32	32	9 (c) The licensing authority shall not approve the transfer of a license granted pursuant to
33	33	10this section to any other location, but it may grant the license to a new applicant at the same
34	34	11location if the applicant files with the licensing authority a letter from the department of revenue
35	35	12and a letter from the department of unemployment assistance indicating that the license is in 2 of 2
36	36	13good standing with those departments and that all applicable taxes, fees and contributions have
37	37	14been paid.
38	38	15 (d) If a licensee terminates or fails to renew the license granted under this section or any
39	39	16such license is cancelled, revoked or no longer in use, it shall be returned physically, with all of
40	40	17the legal rights, privileges and restrictions pertaining thereto, to the licensing authority which
41	41	18may, within 3 years of such return, then grant the license to a new applicant at the same location
42	42	19and under the same conditions as specified in this section, otherwise such license shall dissolve.
43	43	20 (e) The license granted pursuant to this section shall be issued within 1 year after the
44	44	21effective date of this act; provided, however, that a license that is originally granted within that
45	45	22time period may be granted to a new applicant under subsections (c) and (d) thereafter.
46	46	23 SECTION 2. Chapter 515 of the Acts of 2008 is hereby repealed.
47	47	24 SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.