(A) (1) A license shall be purely a personal privilege and shall be issued for not more than one year, unless sooner revoked, as in this subchapter provided and shall not constitute property, nor shall it be subject to attachment, garnishment, or execution, nor shall it be alienable or transferable, voluntarily or involuntarily, or subject to being encumbered or hypothecated.
(2) Such license shall not descend by the laws of testate or intestate devolution, but it shall cease upon the death of the licensee; provided, that the executors or administrators of the estate of any deceased licensee and the trustee of any insolvent or bankrupt licensee, when such estate consists in part of alcoholic liquor, may continue the business of the sale of alcoholic liquor under order of the appropriate court and may exercise the privileges of the deceased or insolvent or bankrupt licensee after the death of such decedent or such insolvency or bankruptcy until the expiration of such license, but not longer than six months after the death, bankruptcy, or insolvency of such licensee.
(3) A refund shall be made of that portion of the license fees paid for any period on which the licensee shall be prevented from operation under such license in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(B) Any licensee may renew his or her license at the expiration thereof, provided he or she is then qualified to receive a license and the premises for which such renewal license is sought are suitable for such purpose; and provided further, that the renewal privilege herein provided for shall not be construed as a vested right which shall, in any case, prevent the Village Trustees from decreasing the number of licenses to be issued within its jurisdiction.
(Prior Code, § 3-2-7) (Ord. 723, passed 6-4-2012)