Report Title:

Liquor License; Expansion; Public Hearing

Description:

Requires a liquor licensee to submit to the public hearing process upon an application for expansion of their business premises.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2756

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to liquor licenses.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 281-62, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§281-62 Reduction or increase in area of licensed premises. (a) The liquor commission [may], in its discretion, may permit the reduction or the increase in the area of the licensed premises of any licensee. Whenever any reduction or increase is permitted, the same shall be endorsed in some appropriate manner upon the license.

(b) With an increase in the area of the licensed premises of any licensee, the licensee shall submit to an additional public hearing, including providing public notice of the hearing, as provided under sections 281-57 and 281-59."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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