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title: O.C.G.A. § 3-5-40. Requirement by counties or municipalities of licenses for manufacture, distribution, and sale of malt beverages; effect of revocation of license issued by commissioner or by county or municipality upon license issued by other.
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# O.C.G.A. § 3-5-40. Requirement by counties or municipalities of licenses for manufacture, distribution, and sale of malt beverages; effect of revocation of license issued by commissioner or by county or municipality upon license issued by other.

(a) The businesses of manufacturing, distributing, and selling malt beverages at wholesale or retail shall not be conducted in any county or incorporated municipality of this state without a license from the governing authority of the county or municipality.

(b) When any county or municipal license issued pursuant to this Code section is revoked by the governing authority of the county or municipality, any similar malt beverage license issued to the same person by the commissioner pursuant to this chapter shall automatically become invalid.

(c) When any state malt beverage license issued pursuant to this chapter is revoked by the commissioner, any similar malt beverage license issued to the same person by any county or municipality shall automatically become invalid.

## History

Ga. L. 1935, p. 73, § 15A; Ga. L. 1937, p. 148, § 3; Ga. L. 1973, p. 14, § 1; Code 1933, § 5A-4301, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1573, § 1; Ga. L. 1981, p. 1269, § 41.

## Law Reviews

For comment on Hornsby v. Allen, 326 F.2d 605 (5th Cir. 1964), see 1 Ga. St. B. J. 550 (1965).