Retail liquor license fees.

2017
STATE OF WYOMING
17LSO-0314
Introduced
1.4

HOUSE BILL

NO.

HB0179

Retail liquor license fees.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Walters, Schwartz and Zwonitzer and Senator(s) Anderson and Landen

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages; requiring public auction for retail liquor licenses; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1
.

W.S. 12
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4
‑
201(
e) and
(g)
and 12
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4
‑
601
(
b
)
are amended to read:

12
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4
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201
.

Retail liquor licenses and malt beverage permits; population formulas; fees.

(e)

The license fee
to be assessed

for

issuing
a retail liquor license shall be
not less than three hundred dollars ($300.00)
nor
more than one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500.00) payable annually in advance.

determined by public auction to
the highest bidder after notice
published at least once each
week for three (3) consecutive
weeks in a newspaper ha
ving general circulation in the
community, posted for at least
three (3) consecutive weeks on
the licensing authority's off
icial website and posted
for two (2) weeks in at least
three (3) public places in the
licensing authority's jurisdiction.

The
annual f
ee
in subsequent years
shall be not less than
three
hundred dollars ($
3
00.00)
nor more than
one
th
ousand five hundred dollars ($1
,500.00).

(g)

The license
fee
and annual fees
for county retail liquor licenses within five (5) miles of a city or town shall not be less than the comparable
fee
license

and
annual fees
charged by the adjacent town
,
and all license
and annual
fees and taxes shall be assessed as provided by law.

12
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4
‑
601
.

Transfer of license location; transfer of ownership
; reporting of sale price
; fee.

(b)

A licensee, or the executor or administrator of the estate of a deceased licensee, may assign and transfer the license or permit by a sale made in good faith. The assignment and transfer shall first have the approval of the licensing authority, which consideration shall be based in part upon a public hearing and an application filed under oath by the assignee or transferee showing the person or entity to be qualified to hold a license or permit under Wyoming law. The approval of the transfer shall not be given by the licensing authority if the transferring licensee is certified by the department as sixty (60) or more days delinquent in paying sales taxes pursuant to W.S. 12
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2
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306, or if proceedings are pending to suspend, revoke or otherwise penalize the original license or permit holder. A transfer of a license or permit shall require the payment of an additional license fee
to the appropriate licensing authority
of not more than
one hundred dollars ($100.00)
for the transfer, and
five hundred dollars ($500.00)
to the appropriate licensing authority
.

U
pon
assignment

and
fee payment,
the assignee may exercise the privilege of continuing the business authorized by the license or permit.

Section

2
.

This
act is effective July 1,
201
7
.

(END)

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