HOUSE . . . . . . . No. 4337
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, January 30, 2020.
The committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure, to
whom was referred the petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4165) of
Harold P. Naughton, Jr., and Dean A. Tran (by vote of the town) that the
town of Clinton be authorized to grant an additional license for the sale of
all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises in said town, reports
recommending the accompanying order (House, No. 4337) ought to be
adopted [Local Approval Received].
For the committee,
TACKEY CHAN.
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HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 4337
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 town of Clinton to grant a license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages
to 1044 Main Street Clinton LLC.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:
1 SECTION 1. (a) Notwithstanding section 17 of chapter 138 of the General Laws, the
2 licensing authority of town of Clinton may grant an additional license for sale of all alcoholic
3 beverages not to be drunk on the premises under section 15 of said chapter 138 to 1044 Main
4 Street Clinton LLC located at 1044 Main street in the town of Clinton. The license shall be
5 subject to all of said chapter 138 except said section 17.
6 (b) The licensing authority shall not approve the transfer of the license to any other
7 location but it may grant the license to a new applicant at the same location if the applicant files
8 with the licensing authority a letter from the department of revenue and a letter from the
9 department of unemployment assistance indicating that the license is in good standing with those
10 departments and that all applicable taxes, fees and contributions have been paid.
11 (c) If a licensee terminates or fails to renew a license granted under this section or any
12 such license granted under this section is cancelled, revoked or no longer in use at the location of
13 original issuance, it shall be returned physically, with all of the legal rights, privileges and
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14 restrictions pertaining thereto, to the licensing authority, which may then grant the license to a
15 new applicant at the same location under the same conditions as specified in this act.
16 (d) All licenses granted under this act shall be issued within 1 year after the effective date
17 of this act; provided, however, that a license originally granted within that time period may be
18 granted to a new applicant under subsections (b) or (c) thereafter.
19 SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
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