A license shall be and is purely a personal privilege good and valid for not more than one year after issuance, unless sooner revoked as provided in § 111.16. A license 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. A license shall not descend by the laws of testacy or intestate devolution, but it shall cease on the death of the licensee; provided that the executor or administrator of the estate of any deceased licensee and the trustee of any insolvent or bankrupt licensee, when such estate consists in part of a license hereunder and 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, 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. A refund shall be made of that portion of the license fees paid for any period in which the licensee shall be prevented from operating under such license in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(2000 Code, § 111.09) (Ord. 596, passed 2-3-1964)