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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="33-902" title_number="33" title_name="Worcester County" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Beer, Wine, and Liquor Licenses">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There are:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a Class B beer, wine, and liquor 6–day license; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a Class B beer, wine, and liquor 7–day license.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Board may issue a 6–day license for use in:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a hotel that has at least 20 rooms and serves meals regularly; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a restaurant that has seating at tables for at least 70 individuals.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Board may issue a 7–day license for use in:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a hotel that:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>has at least 20 rooms and serves meals regularly;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>provides services ordinarily found in hotels;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>has a lobby with a registration and mail desk and seating facilities; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>has an enclosed dining area that serves full–course meals from menus at least two times a day; or</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a restaurant that has:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>a seating capacity at tables for at least 70 individuals;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>an enclosed dining area that serves full–course meals from menus at least two times a day; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>average daily receipts from the sale of food that exceed the average daily receipts from the sale of alcoholic beverages during the license term.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Board may not issue a license under this section for use in a hotel or restaurant unless the hotel or restaurant is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>operated in a clean and sanitary manner; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>has proper restroom facilities.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Before a license under this section may be issued for a premises in a municipality, the license application:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>shall be approved by the Board; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>may be subject to approval by the mayor and town council of the municipality.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A license under this section authorizes the license holder to sell beer, wine, and liquor, at retail, at the place described in the license, for on–premises consumption or on– and off–premises consumption.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The annual license fees are:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>$1,750 for a 6–day license; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>$2,000 for a 7–day license.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Subject to subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, all license fees shall be distributed to the general fund of the county.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If the licensed premises is located in a municipality, 75% of the license fees shall be distributed to the municipality.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Board may issue a temporary to–go event permit under § 33–1105 of this title to a holder of a license under this section if the licensed establishment is located within or immediately adjacent to a special event area identified in a Class C per diem municipal to–go beer, wine, and liquor license issued under § 33–1311 of this title.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The temporary to–go event permit authorizes the holder to sell at retail beer, wine, and liquor in approved to–go cups that may be carried outside the licensed establishment and into the designated special event area.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
