A license issued under this chapter shall be a purely personal privilege, good for not more than one year after issuance, unless revoked sooner, as provided for in this chapter. The license shall not constitute property; be subject to attachment, garnishment or execution; be alienable or transferable, voluntarily or involuntarily; or be subject to being encumbered or hypothecated. The license shall cease upon the death of the licensee and shall not descend by the laws of testate or intestate devolution, provided that executors or administrators of the estate of a deceased licensee and the trustee of any insolvent or bankrupt licensee, when the estate consists in part of alcoholic liquor, may continue the business of the sale or manufacture of alcoholic liquor under the order of the appropriate court, and may exercise the privileges of the deceased or insolvent or bankrupt licensee after the death of the decedent, or insolvency or bankruptcy, until the expiration of the license, but not longer than six months after the death, bankruptcy or insolvency of the licensee. In the case of the death of a partner wherein a partnership is the licensee, the surviving partner is authorized to continue the business under the previously issued license, upon notification, in writing, of the death to the Liquor Control Commissioner.
(Ord. passed 8-2-1976)