Bar and grill liquor licenses.

2015
STATE OF WYOMING
15LSO-0188
Numbered
2.1

SENATE FILE

NO.
SF0002

Bar and grill liquor licenses.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Burns and Representative(s) Berger

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to liquor licenses; increasing the number of bar and grill licenses available; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
.

W.S. 12
‑
4
‑
413(b)(i) through (iv)
and (c)(i)
is
amended to read:

12
‑
4
‑
413
.

Bar and grill liquor license; authorized; requirements.

(b)

The number of bar and grill liquor licenses for cities and towns shall be based on the following population formula:

(i)

Not more than
two (2)
three (3)

licenses in incorporated cities or towns of seven thousand five hundred (7,500) or less; and

(ii)

Not more than
three (3)
five (5)

licenses for population in incorporated cities between seven thousand five hundred one (7,501) and fifteen thousand (15,000); and

(iii)

Not more than
four (4)

six (6)
licenses for population in incorporated cities between fifteen thousand one (15,001) and twenty
‑
seven thousand five hundred (27,500); and

(iv)

Not more than one (1) additional license for each additional
seven thousand five hundred (7,500)

five thousand (5,000)
population in incorporated cities over twenty
‑
seven thousand five hundred (27,500).

(c)

Bar and grill liquor licenses may be granted by the county commissioners as the appropriate licensing authority in a county outside of incorporated cities and towns as follows:

(i)

One (1) license for each
seven thousand five hundred (7,500)
five thousand (5,000)
population residing outside incorporated cities and towns.

Section
2
.

This
act is effective July 1,
2015
.

(END)

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