Sec. V-1. PL 2001, c. 358, Pt. V, §4, sub-§1 is amended to read:
1. Replacement of state liquor stores. The Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations Public Safety, Bureau of Liquor Enforcement may license up to 6 agency stores in a municipality with a population over 20,000 where a state liquor store has been closed and up to 3 agency stores in a municipality where a state liquor store has been closed. The Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations shall establish monthly discounts for all agency stores. The issuance of an agency liquor store license and the operation of agency liquor stores licensed pursuant to this Part are governed by the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 28-A, chapter 19. Notwithstanding the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 28-A, section 453, the Department of Public Safety, Bureau of Liquor Enforcement is authorized to waive the spacing requirement for agency liquor stores in order to license a sufficient number of agency stores in municipalities to implement this Part, to close 8 state liquor stores by December 31, 2001 and 6 additional state liquor stores by December 31, 2002, and to replace the 14 state liquor stores with agency stores.
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