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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="4-207" title_number="4" title_name="Local Licensing" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Issuance or Denial of Local Licenses">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A local licensing board may not issue a license to a minor without a special order granted by a judge.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A judge may grant a special order for the local licensing board to issue a license to a minor only on the recommendation of at least 10 residents of the district in which the license will be operative.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If a local licensing board issues a license to a minor, the minor:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is responsible for each contract made in conducting business under the license; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>may be sued under each contract in a State court.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The responsibility of the minor does not affect the responsibility of the parent of the minor under State and local law.</text>
  </level>
</section>
