HB478 Alabama 2020 Session

Under existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board may not issue an alcoholic beverage retail license in a Class 4 municipality that has adopted a mayor-council form of government unless the application for a license was first approved by the governing body of the municipality, or if the application was denied, the denial was set aside by a court based on grounds that the governing body failed to show a valid enumerated reason why the denial was appropriate

This bill would revise the list of enumerated reasons why denial of an alcoholic beverage license by the governing body was appropriate

Relating to alcoholic beverage licenses in certain Class 4 municipalities; to amend Act 98-342 of the 1998 Regular Session (Acts 1998, p. 602); to repeal Section 28-1-7, Code of Alabama 1975; and to revise the list of enumerated reasons when denial by the governing body of a Class municipality that has adopted a mayor-council form of government of an alcoholic beverage license is appropriate.