(a) The public policy of the state is to restrict the number of permits in this state to dispense vinous (except small farm wines), spirituous, or malt liquor. (b) (1) The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board shall determine whether public convenience and advantage will be promoted by issuing a permit and by increasing or decreasing the […]
(a) The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board in exercising its discretionary power shall give due regard to the ordinances and regulations of the counties and municipalities of this state. (b) All municipal corporations may license and tax the manufacture and sale of vinous (except wines), spirituous, or malt liquors by the permittees so authorized by the […]
(a) For purposes of this section, the term “vested permits” is defined as those multiple retail liquor permits which were lawfully issued to any person, firm, or corporation prior to July 19, 1971. (b) (1) (A) No retail liquor permit shall be issued, either as a new permit or as a replacement of an existing […]
(a) As used in this section: (1) “Church” means a church and all immediately adjacent property owned or leased by the church that is used for church purposes; and (2) (A) “Schoolhouse” means: (i) A facility owned and operated by a public or private school or an open-enrollment charter school; and (ii) A public or […]
The following persons described in this section shall not receive a permit under this title: (1) A person who has been convicted of an excluded felony; (2) A person under twenty-one (21) years of age; (3) A person who is not a citizen or resident alien of the United States; (4) A copartnership, unless all […]
(a) Applications for new permits will be accepted by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division after the publication of new census figures if the applications are warranted within a county or subdivision thereof. (b) When it has been determined that new applications are appropriate, the division shall notify the public at large by legal notice that […]
In addition to such other information as the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division may determine shall be furnished in any application for permits under this act, the following information shall be given under oath: (1) The name, age, and residence of each applicant and, if there are more than one (1) and they […]
(a) (1) (A) After filing an application with the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division and the acceptance of the application by the director, the applicant shall publish at least one (1) time a week for four (4) consecutive weeks in a legal newspaper of general circulation in the city or locality where the […]
Upon receipt by the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division within thirty (30) days of a protest against issuance of a permit by a governing official of the city or county to whom the notice of an application for permit has been mailed, the director shall not issue the license until he or she […]
(a) On all permit applications and administrative applications processed by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division, in the event that any such application is denied, one-half (½) of the stated amount of fee will be retained by the State of Arkansas to cover the costs of investigation and administrative processing of applications. (b) The remainder will […]
Any appeal from an order of the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division or the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board shall be made to the circuit court of the county in which the premises are situated or the Pulaski County Circuit Court. Appeals shall be governed by the terms of the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, […]
A permit shall contain, in addition to any further information or material to be prescribed by the rules of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division, the following: (1) The name of the person to whom the permit is issued; (2) The kind of permit and what kind of traffic in vinous or spirituous or malt liquors […]
(a) All permits issued by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division authorizing the dispensing, sale, or manufacture of alcoholic beverages are renewable on or before June 30 of each calendar year for the fiscal year beginning July 1. (b) Any person holding a permit who desires to renew the permit after June 30 shall be required […]
(a) No permit shall be transferable or assignable. (b) No permit shall be pledged or deposited as collateral security for any loan or upon any other condition. Any pledge or deposit and any contract providing therefor shall be void. (c) A permit issued to any person, pursuant to this chapter, for any premises shall not […]
(a) (1) No new liquor permits shall be issued to nor shall any outstanding liquor permit be transferred to any person, firm, or corporation by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division wherein the permitted premises of the liquor permittee is operated as a part of the profit-making business of any drug, grocery, sporting goods, dry goods, […]
(a) Applications for permits shall be made for issuance only on January 1 or July 1 of each year. (b) Licenses issued as of January 1 will require the payment of one-half (½) the annual permit fee and the amount shall attach and operate as a lien as set forth in subsection (e) of this […]
Whenever a permit shall be lost or destroyed without fault on the part of the permittee or his or her agents or employees, a duplicate permit in lieu thereof may be issued by the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division in his or her discretion and in accordance with its rules, on payment of […]
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board shall not authorize the transfer of a permit to dispense vinous (except small farm wines), spirituous, or malt liquor from one location to another location within a city or town located within a county having a population of two hundred thousand (200,000) or more persons, according to the most recent […]
(a) (1) Whenever any application for any type of alcoholic beverage control permit with the exception of a private club permit being sought in an area in which the sale of alcoholic beverages is not allowed shall be denied, no application for a permit shall be accepted from that same applicant or real party in […]
When issuing a permit under Title 3 of the Arkansas Code, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division shall consider lack of diversity in ownership and financial interest in the geographic area at issue in the permit application.
