4.1-205 - Local licenses.
§ 4.1-205. Local licenses.
A. In addition to the state licenses provided for in this chapter, thegoverning body of each county, city or town in the Commonwealth may provideby ordinance for the issuance of county, city or town licenses and to chargeand collect license taxes therefor, to persons licensed by the Board tomanufacture, bottle or sell alcoholic beverages within such county, city ortown, except for temporary licenses authorized by § 4.1-211. Subject to §4.1-233, the governing body of a county, city or town may classify licensesand graduate the license taxes therefor in the manner it deems proper.
B. No county, city or town shall issue a local license to any person who doesnot hold or secure simultaneously the proper state license. If any personholds any local license without at the same time holding the proper statelicense, the local license, during the period when such person does not holdthe proper state license, shall confer no privileges under the provisions ofthis title.
(Code 1950, § 4-38; 1952, c. 535; 1970, cc. 627, 734; 1976, c. 496; 1978, c.190; 1982, cc. 66, 527; 1984, c. 180; 1990, c. 707; 1992, c. 350; 1993, c.866.)