Bill Text: GA SB539 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Distilled Spirits; repeal the limitation on the number of retail dealer licenses which a person may possess
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-26 - Senate Read and Referred [SB539 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2011-SB539-Introduced.html
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Senate
Bill 539
By:
Senators Staton of the 18th, Hamrick of the 30th, Rogers of the 21st, Chance of
the 16th and Tolleson of the 20th
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Article 2 of Chapter 4 of Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to state license requirements and regulations for
manufacture, distribution, and package sales of distilled spirits, so as to
repeal the limitation on the number of retail dealer licenses which a person may
possess; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for
other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Article
2 of Chapter 4 of Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
state license requirements and regulations for manufacture, distribution, and
package sales of distilled spirits, is amended by revising Code Section 3-4-21,
relating to prohibition on holding or having beneficial interest in more than
two retail dealer licenses, as follows:
"3-4-21.
(a)
No person shall be issued more than two retail dealer licenses, nor shall any
person be permitted to have a beneficial interest in more than two retail dealer
licenses issued under this chapter, regardless of the degree of such
interest.
(b)
For purposes of this Code section:
(1)
The term 'person' shall include all members of a retail dealer licensee's
family; and the term 'family' shall include any person related to the holder of
the license within the first degree of consanguinity and affinity as computed
according to the canon law.
(2)
The beneficiaries of a trust shall be considered to have a beneficial interest
in any business forming a part of the trust estate.
(c)
Nothing contained in this Code section shall prohibit the reissuance of a valid
retail dealer license if the license has been:
(1)
Held prior to the creation of any of the above relationships by marriage;
or
(2)
Held prior to April 3, 1978
Reserved."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.