Sec. 15. 28-A MRSA §351, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1997, c. 373, §38, is further amended to read:

1. Liquor store may not be located within 300 feet of school or church. The alcohol bureau may not establish license a state liquor store or the bureau may not license an agency liquor store within 300 feet of any public or private school, church, chapel or parish house.

A. The bureau, after holding a public hearing near the proposed location, may locate an agency license a liquor store that is located within 300 feet of a church, chapel, parish house or postsecondary school.

Sec. 16. 28-A MRSA §352, as amended by PL 1997, c. 373, §39, is repealed.

Sec. 17. 28-A MRSA §353, as amended by PL 1997, c. 373, §40, is further amended to read:

§353. Business hours

State liquor Liquor stores and agency liquor stores may be open for the sale and delivery of liquor between the hours of 6 a.m. and 1 a.m. in municipalities and unincorporated places that have voted in favor of the operation of state liquor stores under local option provisions. Notwithstanding any local option decisions to the contrary, state liquor stores and agency liquor stores may be open from 9 a.m. Sunday to 1 a.m. the next day. The alcohol bureau shall establish the hours of operation of each state liquor store.

Sec. 18. 28-A MRSA §354, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 45, Pt. A, §4, is amended to read:

§354. Sales to minors or intoxicated persons

No state A liquor store or agency liquor store may not sell liquor to a minor or to a visibly intoxicated person.

Sec. 19. 28-A MRSA §355, as amended by PL 1997, c. 373, §41, is further amended to read:

§355. Closed in cases of riots; hurricanes; flood