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HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 95025        FILED ON: 9/17/2010

HOUSE  .   .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 5025

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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                                                                      HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, September 20, 2010.

The committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure, to whom was referred the petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 489 6 ) of Paul McMurtry (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Dedham to issue an additional liquor licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises , reports recommending that the accompanying bill (House, No. 502 5 ) ought to pass.

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                                                                                    THEODORE C. SPELIOTIS

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
 

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In the Year Two Thousand and Ten

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An Act authorizing the town of Dedham to grant 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 section 17 of chapter 138 of the General Laws, the licensing authority of the town of Dedham may grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises under section 12 of said chapter 138 to Centre Market, Inc. at 545 High Street in said town.   The license shall be subject to all of said chapter 138 except said section 17.

(b) The   local alcohol licensing authority shall not approve the transfer of said license to any other location. Said license may be granted by the local alcohol licensing authority at the same location if an applicant for said license files with said authority a letter in writing from the department of Revenue indicating that said license is in good standing with said Department and that any and all applicable taxes have been paid.

(c) If the license granted under this section is cancelled, revoked or no longer in use, such license shall be returned physically, with all of the legal rights, privileges and restrictions pertaining thereto to the local alcohol licensing authority.  Notwithstanding section 17 of chapter 138 of the General Laws, the local alcohol licensing authority may then grant the license to a new applicant at the same location and under the same conditions as specified in this section.

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

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