1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to commerce; repealing prohibition on municipality issuing more than one 
1.3 	off-sale license to any one person or place;repealing Minnesota Statutes 2016, 
1.4 	section 340A.412, subdivision 3.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1.  REPEALER.
 1.7 	Minnesota Statutes 2016, section 340A.412, subdivision 3, is repealed.

1.8 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

APPENDIX 

Repealed Minnesota Statutes: 17-1212 

340A.412 LICENSE RESTRICTIONS; INTOXICATING LIQUOR LICENSES.Subd. 3.Limitations on issuance of licenses to one person or place. 
(a) A municipality may not issue more than one off-sale intoxicating liquor license to any one person or for any one place. 

(b) A municipality may not allow the same business name to be used by more than one of its off-sale intoxicating liquor licensees. 

(c) For purposes of this subdivision, "person" means: 

(1) a holder of an off-sale intoxicating liquor license; 

(2) an officer, director, agent, or employee of a holder of an off-sale intoxicating liquor license; or 

(3) an affiliate of a holder of an off-sale intoxicating liquor license, regardless of whether the affiliation is corporate or by management, direction, or control.