| | 1. Location requirements. The bureau may license an agency a | liquor store only when the following requirements are met. |
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| A. The proposed agency liquor store is located in a | municipality or unincorporated place that has voted in favor | of the operation of state liquor stores under local option | provisions. |
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| C. The proposed agency liquor store is not within 3.5 miles | of an existing state liquor store or an existing agency | liquor store that was licensed before May 1, 1993. |
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| D. If a state liquor store closes, the bureau may grant | more than one agency store license in a municipality when | the bureau considers it appropriate. Agency liquor stores | licensed before May 1, 1993 that replace closed state liquor | stores are exempt from the distance requirement in paragraph | C. |
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| | 2. Replacement of state or agency liquor stores. The alcohol | bureau may not replace a state liquor store and the bureau may | not replace an existing agency liquor store that closes with a | new agency liquor store if there is another state or existing | agency liquor store within 3.5 miles. This subsection does not | prevent the bureau from locating a replacement agency liquor | store within 3.5 miles of another replacement agency liquor store | for the same town. |
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| | 2-A. Replacement of state liquor stores closed in fiscal year | 1991-92. The bureau may replace a state liquor store closed | after July 1, 1990 with 3 agency liquor stores if: |
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| A. The agency stores are within a 10-mile radius of the | location of the closed state liquor store; and |
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| B. The bureau does not issue to a person or corporation | more than 2 of the 3 licenses issued to replace a state | liquor store. For purposes of this restriction, each | partner of a partnership, each corporation that owns an | interest in another corporation and each person who owns 20% | or more of the shares or other interest in a corporation is | deemed to own a license granted to the partnership or | corporation. |
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| | Sec. 26. 28-A MRSA §453-A, as amended by PL 1997, c. 373, §47, is | further amended by repealing and replacing the headnote to read: |
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| §453-A.__Issuance of liquor store license |
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