State Act

EXCISE LAW OF BIHAR & JHARKHAND 1915

22. Grant of exclusive privilege of manufacture and sale of country liquor or intoxicating drugs or denatured spirit or any other intoxicant (1) The state Government may grant to any person, on such conditions and for such periods as it may think fit, the exclusive privilege (a) (i) of manufacturing or supplying wholesale, or (ii) of manufacturing and supplying wholesale, or (iii) of selling wholesale or retail or (iv) of manufacturing or supplying wholesale and selling retail or (v) of manufacturing and supplying wholesale and selling retail; any country liquor or intoxicating drug with any specified local or (b) of manufacturing, storing using, possessing, exporting, importing including wholesale or retail sale of liquor, which after manufacture is denatured to render it unfit of human consumption and is thereby termed as denatured spirit and any other intoxicant. Provided that public notice shall be given of the intention to grant any such exclusive privilege, and that any objection made by any person residing within the area affected shall be considered before an exclusive privilege is granted. (2) No grantee of any privilege under sub-section (i) shall exercise the same unless or until he has received a license in that behalf from the collector of the Excise Commissioner