Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1909 — Time Limit On Liquor Licenses. [ARTICLE]

Time Limit On Liquor Licenses.

Liquor men in “dry” territory have been advised by Attorney General Bingham that their licenses, if taken out after the passage of th,e. county local option law on September 26, will not be permitted to run after the expiration of ninety days after the county in which they are situated has voted “dry.” The opinion was given at the request of the saloon keepers who had liquor licenses and who were uncertain as to the time of their expiration. The county local option law was passed on September 26, and it became effective by proclamation of former governor Hani/ on November 20 of last year. It is provided in the law that those licenses which were taken out after the passage of the bill would be good for one year, provided they were secured in intervening time between the passage of the bill and the time it became effective by proclamation.