A license to sell alcoholic liquor at retail is purely a personal privilege, good for not more than one year after its issuance unless sooner revoked as provided in this chapter, and 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. Such license shall not descend by the laws of testate or intestate devolution, but it shall cease upon the death of the licensee. However, executors or administrators of the estate of any deceased licensee, or the trustee of any insolvent or bankrupt licensee, when such estate consists in part of alcoholic liquor, may continue the business of the sale or manufacture 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 continuous months after the death, bankruptcy or insolvency of such licensee. Any license that is surrendered or abandoned may be, upon proper application, available for a qualified applicant.
(Ord. 287. Passed 12-22-64; Ord. 424. Passed 2-28-74; 1976 Code § 3-28; Ord. 512. Passed 2-27-78; Ord. 670. Passed 1-27-86.)