Amend Your Alcoholic Beverages Retail License: Change of License Type (ABCC)

If you need to notify the ABCC of a change in your license type (i.e., Restaurant or General on Premises), please follow these instructions.

Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission

The Details   of Amend Your Alcoholic Beverages Retail License: Change of License Type (ABCC)

What you need   for Amend Your Alcoholic Beverages Retail License: Change of License Type (ABCC)

Please be sure to read the instructions on the front page of each application carefully as some required documents have changed.

Forms and Documents

Additional Amendments

If you are filing additional amendments to your retail license, you will need to also file a multiple transaction application. See our sidebar for a link to these instructions or click here.

Fees   for Amend Your Alcoholic Beverages Retail License: Change of License Type (ABCC)

Name Fee Unit
Processing Fee $200 each

How to amend   Amend Your Alcoholic Beverages Retail License: Change of License Type (ABCC)

Submit all required documents and forms to your Local Licensing Authority (LLA). The LLA will either approve or deny your application for your license amendment. If it is approved, the amendment will be forwarded to the ABCC.

Next steps   for Amend Your Alcoholic Beverages Retail License: Change of License Type (ABCC)

  1. Granting of an amendment application by the LLA

    When you submit your application with the LLA, the LLA is required by law to note the date and hour your application is filed with it. The LLA must act on an application within 30 days of it being filed.

  2. Approval by the ABCC

    When the ABCC receives an amendment application that has been approved by the LLA, an investigator will be assigned. The investigator will investigate the proposed manager, examining any criminal background and fitness of character. Parties to an amendment application must respond promptly to investigators’ inquiries. Failure to do so will result in a delay of the approval and may result in a denial of the amendment application.

  3. License amendment issued

    Once the LLA receives the ABCC’s approval of an amendment application, it must issue the amended license within 7 days.

More info   for Amend Your Alcoholic Beverages Retail License: Change of License Type (ABCC)

The ABCC urges you to reach out to the Local Licensing Authority (“LLA”) in the city or town in which you are applying for a change of manager amendment to your license before applying. While state law requires you to submit certain documents, your LLA may have other documents and/or fees required of you before it will consider your application, and failure to contact them before you apply for a change of manager amendment to your license may delay the consideration of your application.

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