(HB 1302)
Alcoholic beverage license use required.
Section
1.
That
§
35-2-5.3
be amended to read as follows:
35-2-5.3.
No licensing authority
shall
may
reissue any on-sale
or off-sale
license
issued
pursuant to subdivision 35-4-2(4), (6), or (13)
to the same
applicant for a one-year period if said
licensee or the licensee's transferee if the
license has not been actively used by the applicant during
the two years preceding the date of the current application.
For purposes of this section, the term,
actively used, means that the licensed premise was open to the public during regular business hours
for the sale and consumption of distilled spirits for at least sixty days during the two preceding
years. However, the licensed premise is only required to be open five days per year if it is open to
the public during a special event that has at least twenty-five thousand visitors.
Section
2.
This Act is effective on January 1, 2009.