(a) The department has general supervision of the conduct of the business of manufacturing,
importing, exporting, storing, transporting, keeping for sale, and selling beverages.
(b) The department may lease a warehouse for the purpose of efficiently exercising its
powers and duties of inspection and may upon reasonable charges store beverages for
license holders in the warehouse. No lease shall be for a longer period than five
(5) years and every lease shall contain the provision that if it becomes unlawful
to manufacture, keep for sale, and to sell beverages in this state it shall become
void.
(c) The department has the power at any time to issue, renew, revoke and cancel all manufacturers’,
wholesalers’ and retailers’ Class G licenses and permits as are provided for by this
title.
(d) The department shall supervise and inspect all licensed places to enforce the provisions
of this title and the conditions, rules and regulations which the department establishes
and authorizes.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
3
cases, 1962–1986 · leading case:
In Re Hoffman, 65 B.R. 985 (D.R.I. 1986).
In Re Hoffman, 65 B.R. 985 (D.R.I. 1986).
· cites it 2× “See R.I.Gen.Laws §§ 3-2-2, 3-5-15. Section 3-7-24 confers no substantive authority whatever over the regulation of liquor licenses, and the tax administrator derives none from any other provision of the law.”
S & S Liquor Mart, Inc. v. Pastore, 497 A.2d 729 (R.I. 1985).
· cites it 2× “1956 (1976 Reenactment) § 3-2-2, wherein the Legislature delegated active supervision of title 3 to Pastore in his capacity as liquor-control administrator, this policy is actively supervised by the state itself.”
Indep. Beer Distributors Ass'n v. Liquor Control Hearing Bd., 180 A.2d 805 (R.I. 1962).
“1956, §3-5-20, which authorizes the department of business regulation to malee and promulgate such rules, and §3-2-2 which specifically designates the liquor control administration as the appropriate agency within the department for such purpose.”
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