Bill Text: MI HB4169 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Liquor; licenses; prohibition on issuing license within 500 feet of church or school; extend exemption to licenses issued or renewed before certain date. Amends sec. 503 of 1998 PA 58 (MCL 436.1503).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-07-12 - Assigned Pa 66'17 With Immediate Effect [HB4169 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB4169-Engrossed.html
HB-4169, As Passed Senate, June 15, 2017
HOUSE BILL No. 4169
February 7, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Brann, Lucido, Noble, Schor, Frederick, Webber and LaGrand and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.
A bill to amend 1998 PA 58, entitled
"Michigan liquor control code of 1998,"
by amending section 503 (MCL 436.1503).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
503. (1) A The commission
shall deny a new application
for
a license to sell alcoholic beverages at retail , or a request
to
transfer location of an existing license , shall be denied if
the contemplated location is within 500 feet of a church or a
school building. The distance between the church or school building
and
the contemplated location shall must
be measured along the
center line of the street or streets of address between 2 fixed
points on the center line determined by projecting straight lines,
at right angles to the center line, from the part of the church or
school building nearest to the contemplated location and from the
part of the contemplated location nearest to the church or school
building.
(2) This section does not apply to specially designated
merchants
not in conjunction with on the premise premises licenses.
(3) This section does not apply to an outstanding license
issued
before March 1, 1949, 2017,
for a location within the
aforesaid
distance described in subsection (1) or to the renewal or
transfer
of the outstanding license at that the location. ,
or to a
resort
license in effect during the 1948-1949 licensing year, or to
the
renewal or transfer of the resort at that location or to an
application
for a license at that location which has been approved
by
the commission before March 1, 1949, and licenses so A license
issued,
renewed, or transferred
, or approved shall be as described
in this subsection is conclusively presumed to be valid for
purposes of this section only.
(4)
The commission may waive this section in the case of other
for all classes of licenses. If an objection is not filed by the
church
or school, the commission may issue the license pursuant to
under this act. If an objection is filed, the commission shall hold
a
hearing pursuant to under rules established by the commission
before
making a decision on the issuance of issuing the license.
(5)
This section shall not be construed to does not prevent
the transfer of a license to a location farther from a church or
school, if the license to be transferred is within the 500-foot
radius described in subsection (1).
