O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 3-5-23 (2019)

License for manufacture of malt beverages - Grounds and procedure for revocation generally

✓ O.C.G.A.: 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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(a) No license issued by the state or by any other duly authorized licensing authority to any person for the manufacture of malt beverages shall be revoked except for due cause.

(b) Due cause for the revocation of a brewer’s license shall consist only of violation of the laws regulating the manufacture of malt beverages and of regulations made pursuant to authority lawfully granted for the purpose of regulating the manufacture of malt beverages.

History

Ga. L. 1955, p. 657, § 1; Code 1933, § 5A-4507, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1573, § 1.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Editor’s notes. - In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, annotations decided under former Ga. L. 1935, Ex. Sess., p. 73 are included in the annotations for this Code section. Effect of section on rule that selling beer is privilege. - This section, which is limited in its scope to revocation of

licenses pertaining to manufacture of malt beverages, does not modify rule that business of selling beer at wholesale or retail is a privilege under laws of this state. Lewis v. City of Smyrna, 214 Ga. 323, 104 S.E.2d 571 (1958) (decided under former Ga. L. 1935, Ex. Sess., p. 73).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 45 Am. Jur. 2d, Intoxicating Liquors, §§ 7, 8, 9, 102, 152 et seq., 187.

C.J.S. - 48 C.J.S., Intoxicating Liquors, § 297 et seq.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2000–2000 · leading case: Johnson v. Athens-Clarke Cnty., 529 S.E.2d 613 (Ga. 2000).
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Johnson v. Athens-Clarke Cnty., 529 S.E.2d 613 (Ga. 2000). · cites it 4× “Johnson departed each time as directed, but returned and was sitting on a wall at the intersection when the officer approached the fifth time.”
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