Quicker process for license amendments in effect
By Rick Ask, Administrator
Gambling Control Division
Working with the Gaming Advisory Council and the Department of Revenue Liquor Control Division, the Gambling Control Division identified three types of amended license applications for which a more streamlined application form and process could be used.
Those types of amended applications include:
• to report transfers of ownership resulting from the death of a licensee, as long the transfer of the decedent's interest is to an estate or a surviving spouse if the interest was held in joint tenancy with right of survivorship and the spouse is not a stranger to the license – is already listed as an owner;
• to obtain approval for a transfer of ownership resulting from divorce as long as the individual to whom the interest is transferred is not a stranger to the license; and
• to obtain approval for gifts of ownership interests, as long as the recipients of the gifts are not strangers to the license.
The administrative rule amendments necessary to implement the streamlined process will go into affect Dec. 25, 2009, and the new one-page application form and list of documents to be provided with the form will be available on the Gambling Control Division's website on and after Jan. 1, 2010.
The list of documents the Departments will require to be attached to the application form for each these types of amended applications has also been shortened to include those items essential to confirm the transfer. The lists can also be found on the back of the form.
Finally, the shortened process will only require personal history updates and fingerprints for personal representatives of estates listed on amended applications submitted to report the death of a licensee and the transfer of the ownership interest to an estate. No fingerprints will be required if you are able to use this form for any other permissible purpose.
For all other types of new and amended applications, you will still have to use the current long form and provide personal history statements, fingerprints, and related documents.
The Gaming Advisory Council License Sub-committee, the DOR/Liquor Control Division and DOJ/Gambling Control Division have committed to continue examining the application processes and work to make improvements where possible. So, stay tuned, as more improvements and streamlining to the license application process may be on the way.
If you have any questions about the new form or process please call the Division, 406-444-1971, and ask for me or License and Tax Supervisor Kathy Baertsch.