CHAPTER 213

H.P. 358 - L.D. 466

An Act Concerning the Issuance of a Temporary Liquor

License

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 28-A MRSA §653, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2001, c. 500, §1, is further amended to read:

1. Hearings. The municipal officers or, in the case of unincorporated places, the county commissioners of the county in which the unincorporated place is located, shall may hold a public hearing for the consideration of applications for new on- premise on-premises licenses and applications for transfer of location of existing on-premise on-premises licenses. The municipal officers or county commissioners may hold a public hearing for the consideration of requests for renewal of licenses, except that when an applicant has held a license for the prior 5 years and a complaint has not been filed against the applicant within that time, the applicant may request a waiver of the hearing.

A. The bureau shall prepare and supply application forms.

B. The municipal officers or the county commissioners, as the case may be, shall provide public notice of any hearing held under this section by causing a notice, at the applicant's prepaid expense, stating the name and place of hearing, to appear on at least 3 consecutive days before the date of hearing in a daily newspaper having general circulation in the municipality where the premises are located or one week before the date of the hearing in a