Regulation-AlcoholPackageStores-080519

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7. Automatic amusement devices in compliance with Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 140, § 177A may be kept in licensed premises, provided that each such device is properly licensed by the shown of Lexington as an automatic amusement device, and is installed on the premises so as to be kept in open view at all times while in operation, and shall at all times be available for inspection. No device designed or intended for gambling, gaming or betting for money or property shall be permitted in a licensed premise, nor shall any other automatic amusement device be permitted to be used for such purpose. 'rhe term "automatic amusement device" shall mean any mechanism whereby, upon the deposit therein of a coin or token, any apparatus is released or set in motion or put in a position where it may be set in motion for the purpose of playing any game involving, in whole or in part, the skill of the player, including but not limited to such devices commonly known as pinball machines and video or electronic games. 8. Licenses shall not be issued to establishments located within a residential neighborhood area. 9. Package store licensees must conspicuously post a list of prices for all alcoholic beverages being sold on the premises in each room where alcoholic beverages are displayed or sold. 10. No license shall be sold, transferred or surrendered without the prior approval of the Board of Selectmen. 11. Pursuant to state law, each applicant, whether an individual, partnership or corporation (including its affiliated entities), is eligible to receive no more than one package store license in Lexington. 12. All alcoholic beverage licenses are conditioned on the compliance with all applicable state and local laws, including but not limited to M.G.L. Chapters 138 and 140, the state building code, the ABCC Regulations and Lexington's bylaws and regulations. 13. No corporation, organized under the laws of the Commonwealth or any other state or foreign country, shall be issued a license to sell in any manner any alcoholic beverages unless such corporation shall have first appointed, by vote of its Board of Directors or other similar board, as manager or other principal representative, a citizen of the United States who is 21 years of age or older, and shall have vested in him by properly authorized and executed written delegation full authority and control over all business relative to alcoholic beverages which takes place on the premise. 14. Such manager or representative shall be present in the licensed premises and shall be available to the licensing authorities at all times during which alcoholic beverages are being sold pursuant to the license of such corporation, unless some other person, similarly qualified, authorized and satisfactory to the licensing authorities, and whose authority to act in place of such manager or principal representative shall first have been certified to the licensing authorities as set forth in paragraph 13, is present in the premises and acting in the place of such manager or principal representative.