Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control
800 W Washington 5th Floor
Phoenix, AZ 85007-2934
(602) 542-5141
A.R.S. Section 4-203 (G) provides:
A licensee who holds a license in nonuse status more than five months shall be required to pay a one-hundred dollar
surcharge for each month thereafter. The surcharge shall be paid at the time the license is returned to active status.
A license automatically reverts to the state after being held in continuous nonuse in excess of thirty-six months.
Also, A.R.S. Section 4-203(O) states:
If a licensed location has not been in use for two years, the location must re-qualify for a license.....
(In other words, if your license has been in nonuse for over two years, you lose the location and must reapply.)
If you are NOT using your liquor license, complete an INACTIVE STATUS FORM and submit it to the Department's Licensing
Division. Your license can remain on inactive status for FIVE months before an assessment of $100.00 per month thereafter
begins accumulating. If you activate the license WITHOUT notifying the Department, you may be assessed the surcharges.
Therefore, it is important that you notify the Department on an ACTIVE STATUS FORM promptly. Failure to notify the
Department of either Inactive or Activating Status may result in revocation as stated in A.R.S. 4-203(N):
Failure to pay any surcharge.... or failure to report the period of nonuse of a license shall be grounds
for revocation of the license ....
Your license MUST be renewed when it is in nonuse status. Renewal of your license does NOT place it into use or nonuse.
You must use the Department's forms or a personal written request.
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