H 5548

HOUSE . . . . . . . . No. 5548
  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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  HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, July 6, 2026.
    The committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure, to
whom was referred the joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
5461) of Alice Hanlon Peisch (by vote of the town) that the town of
Weston be authorized to grant an additional license for sale of all alcoholic
beverages to be drunk on the premises in said town, reports recommending
that the accompanying bill (House, No. 5548) ought to pass.
  For the committee,
  TACKEY CHAN.
  FILED ON: 6/26/2026
 HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 5548
  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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  In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court
  (2025-2026)
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An Act authorizing the town of Weston to grant an additional license for sale of all alcoholic
beverages to be drunk on the premises.
  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:
1SECTION 1. (a) Notwithstanding section 17 of chapter 138 of the General Laws, the
2 licensing authority of the town of Weston may grant 1 additional license for the sale of all
3 alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises pursuant to section 12 of said chapter 138 to
4 Weston Breakfast, LLC, located at 31 Center Street in the town of Weston. The license granted
5 pursuant to this act shall be subject to all of said chapter 138 except said section 17.
6(b) A license granted under this act shall only be exercised in the dining room of a
7 common victualler and in such other public rooms or areas as may be deemed reasonable and
8 appropriate by the licensing authority as certified in writing.
9(c) The licensing authority shall not approve the transfer of a license granted pursuant to
10 this act to any other location, but it may grant the license to a new applicant at the same location
11 if the applicant files with the licensing authority a letter from the department of revenue and a
12 letter from the department of unemployment assistance indicating that the license is in good
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13 standing with those departments and that all applicable taxes, fees and contributions have been
14 paid.
15(d) If a licensee terminates or fails to renew the license granted under this section or any
16 such license is cancelled, revoked, or no longer in use, it shall be returned physically, with all of
17 the legal rights, privileges and restrictions pertaining thereto, to the licensing authority which
18 may, within 3 years of such return, then grant the license to a new applicant at the same location
19 and under the same conditions as specified in this section, otherwise such license shall dissolve.
20(e) The license granted pursuant to this act shall be issued within 2 years after the
21 effective date of this act; provided, however, that a license that is originally granted within that
22 time period may be granted to a new applicant under subsections (c) and (d) thereafter.
23SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
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