2020 -- S 2667 | |
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2020 | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- COUNCILS AND GOVERNING BODIES | |
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Introduced By: Senators Cano, McKenney, Paolino, Euer, and Miller | |
Date Introduced: February 27, 2020 | |
Referred To: Senate Housing & Municipal Government | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Chapter 45-5 of the General Laws entitled "Councils and Governing Bodies" |
2 | is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section: |
3 | 45-5-23. Notice when new license issued. |
4 | (a) When a city or town council or licensing authority is scheduled to consider a new |
5 | business license, the municipality shall issue notice to all other licensed businesses located within |
6 | five hundred feet (500’) of the proposed location of the new business license to be heard. |
7 | (1) The written notice shall be mailed to the parties within five hundred feet (500’) of the |
8 | new prospective business at least two (2) weeks prior to the hearing. The written notice shall: |
9 | (i) Indicate the new license which is under consideration; |
10 | (ii) Specify the place of the hearing and the date and time of its commencement; |
11 | (iii) Contain all copies of the paperwork submitted to the city or town council or licensing |
12 | authority or summarize and describe the matter under consideration as long as the intent and effect |
13 | of the proposed license is expressly written in that notice; and |
14 | (iv) Advise those interested where and when a copy of the matter under consideration may |
15 | be obtained or examined and copied. |
16 | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
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RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- COUNCILS AND GOVERNING BODIES | |
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1 | This act would require the city or town council or local licensing authority to provide notice |
2 | to all licensed businesses within five hundred feet (500’) of the proposed location of the new |
3 | business license to be heard. |
4 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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