A. In any local option district, a person qualified under the provisions of the Liquor Control Act [60-3A-1 NMSA 1978] may apply for and be issued a retailer’s license for the retail sale of alcoholic beverages.
B. A retailer’s license, when issued, shall only be used by the person to whom the license is issued and shall only be used within the licensed premises, pursuant to provisions of the Liquor Control Act.
C. In any local option district within a class B county having a population of between fifty-six thousand and fifty-seven thousand according to the 1980 federal decennial census, a person with a retailer’s or dispenser’s license that sells retail gasoline on the premises shall not sell alcoholic beverages other than beer with less than ten percent alcohol by volume.
History: Laws 1981, ch. 39, § 19; 2021, ch. 7, § 7.
ANNOTATIONS
The 2021 amendment, effective July 1, 2021, prohibited certain retailer’s and dispenser’s license holders from selling alcoholic beverages other than beer with less than ten percent alcohol by volume; and added Subsection C.
Director cannot authorize transfer of license from county to county. — The director has no power to authorize the transfer of a retailer’s or dispenser’s license from one county to another. 1967 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 67-124.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 45 Am. Jur. 2d Intoxicating Liquors § 272.
48 C.J.S. Intoxicating Liquors § 121.