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H4006 • 2025

An Act authorizing the town of Dartmouth to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises

An Act authorizing the town of Dartmouth to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises

Agriculture
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Christopher M. Markey
Last action
2026-05-26
Official status
Signed by the Governor, Chapter 88 of the Acts of 2026
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on the number of existing licenses in Dartmouth or what happens if the license is not issued within one year.

An Act authorizing Dartmouth to grant an additional alcohol sales license

This act allows the town of Dartmouth to issue one more license for selling alcoholic drinks that are not meant to be consumed on-site.

What This Bill Does

  • Allows Dartmouth's licensing authority to give one more license for selling all types of alcohol that won't be drunk at the store.
  • The new license can only stay with Lofberg Market Place, LLC (doing business as Farm and Coast Market) unless given to a new applicant who meets certain conditions.

Who It Names or Affects

  • The town of Dartmouth's licensing authority
  • Lofberg Market Place, LLC (doing business as Farm and Coast Market)

Terms To Know

licensing authority
The group in charge of giving out licenses for selling alcohol.
license
A document that allows a business to sell certain types of products, like alcoholic drinks.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not specify what happens if the license is not issued within one year.
  • The act does not explain how many existing licenses are currently available in Dartmouth.

Bill History

  1. 2026-05-26 Executive

    Signed by the Governor, Chapter 88 of the Acts of 2026

  2. 2026-05-18 House

    Enacted

  3. 2026-05-18 Senate

    Enacted and laid before the Governor

  4. 2026-05-14 Senate

    Taken out of the Orders of the Day

  5. 2026-05-14 Senate

    Read third and passed to be engrossed

  6. 2025-11-17 Senate

    Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading

  7. 2025-11-13 House

    Read third and passed to be engrossed

  8. 2025-07-31 House

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting

  9. 2025-07-31 House

    Rules suspended

  10. 2025-07-31 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  11. 2025-07-17 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

  12. 2025-05-23 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 06/02/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-2

  13. 2025-05-01 Senate

    Senate concurred

  14. 2025-04-07 House

    Referred to the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

Official Summary Text

An Act authorizing the town of Dartmouth to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises
By Representative Markey of Dartmouth, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4006) of Christopher M. Markey (by vote of the town) that the town of Dartmouth be authorized to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises in said town. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure. [Local Approval Received.]

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.4006

SECTION 1. (a) Notwithstanding section 17 of chapter 138 of the General Laws, the licensing authority of the town of Dartmouth may grant 1 additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises pursuant to section 15 to Lofberg Market Place, LLC, d/b/a Farm and Coast Market, located at 7-9 Bridge Street in the town. The license granted pursuant to this section shall be subject to all said chapter 138 except said section 17.

(b) The licensing authority shall not approve the transfer of a license granted pursuant to this section to any other location, but it may grant the license to a new applicant at the same location if the applicant files with the licensing authority a letter from the department of revenue and a letter from the department of unemployment assistance indicating that the license is in good standing with those departments and that all applicable taxes, fees and contributions have been paid.

(c) If a licensee terminates or fails to renew a license granted under this section or any such license is cancelled, revoked or no longer in use, it shall be returned physically, with all of the legal rights, privileges and restrictions pertaining thereto, to the licensing authority which may, within 3 years after such return, then grant the license to a new applicant at the same location and under the same conditions as specified in this section, otherwise such license shall dissolve.

(d) The license granted under this section shall be issued within 1 year after the effective date of this act; provided, however, that if the license is originally granted within that time period, it may be granted to a new applicant under subsections (b) and (c) thereafter.

SECTION 2. Upon issuance of the license authorized under section 1 of this act, the licensee shall return physically, with all of the legal rights, privileges and restrictions pertaining thereto, to the licensing authority its license for the sale of wine and malt beverages not to be drunk on the premises under section 15 of chapter 138.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

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