§ 4-144. License a personal privilege; duration of license; transfer, bankruptcy, descent and alienability testamentary descent.

A class B club drinking establishment, or caterer's license shall be purely a personal privilege, good for not to exceed two years after issuance unless sooner suspended or revoked as provided in this division 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. A class B club, drinking establishment or caterer's license shall not descend by the laws of testate or interstate devolution, but shall cease or expire upon the death of the licensee subject to the following provision. An executor, administrator or representative of the estate of any deceased holder of a class B club, drinking establishment or caterer's license or the trustee of any insolvent or bankrupt class B club, drinking establishment or caterer's license may continue the licensee's business under order of the appropriate court and may exercise the privilege of the deceased, insolvent or bankrupt licensee after the death of such licensee or after such insolvency or bankruptcy until the expiration of such license, but in no case longer than one year after the death, insolvency or bankruptcy of such licensee. A refund shall be made of that portion of the license fee paid for any period in which the licensee shall be prevented from operating under such license in accordance with the provisions of this article.

(Code 1988, § 4-109; Ord. No. 65173, § 3-53, 7-9-1987; Ord. No. O-56-12, § 1, 10-4-2012)

State law reference

Similar provisions, K.S.A. 41-2629.