(A) A retail liquor dealer’s license shall be purely a personal privilege, good for not to exceed 1 year after issuance unless sooner revoked, as provided for in this subchapter, 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. This license shall not descend by the laws of testate or interstate 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 the 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 death of the decedent, or the insolvency or bankruptcy until the expiration of the license but not longer than 6 months after the death, bankruptcy, or insolvency of the 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 the license in accordance with the provisions of this division (A).
(B) Except as provided in division (A) above, no refund of liquor license fees and employee registration fees shall be made at any time.
(Prior Code, § 3-35) (Ord. 1999-26, passed 12-16-1999)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see ILCSCh. 235, Act 5, § 6-1