A license issued pursuant to this chapter shall be purely a personal privilege, good until midnight on April 30 following its issuance, unless otherwise provided in this chapter or unless sooner revoked as provided in this chapter, 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 be encumbered or hypothecated. Such license shall not descend by the laws of the state or intestate devolution, but it shall cease upon the death of the licensee, provided that 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 (6) 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 with regard to licenses terminated upon the death of the holder. A license may not be transferred by a licensee to another party. Whenever a license issued under this chapter is surrendered or otherwise returned to the city by the licensee for any reason, the license shall be cancelled and the number of licenses available in that classification pursuant to subsection 3-1-9A, shall be restored by one license.
(Ord. O-19-011, 6-17-2019)