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In VA, if you want an alcohol license for your restaurant, you are required to print an ad in a local newspaper stating that you intend to get a license. I'm gu

by moftz 7y ago

In VA, if you want an alcohol license for your restaurant, you are required to print an ad in a local newspaper stating that you intend to get a license. I'm guessing it's so some prohibitionist can call up the ABC and complain? It's completely ridiculous. I wondering what will happen when print newspaper ceases to exist.

pfranz 7y ago
I've noticed a lot of "public notice" laws. Either a physical sign on the property or something published in the newspaper. I'm not quite sure what the digital equivalent would be--a government run "announce" page that gets indexed and archived? Not really much different from press releases governments and businesses already do required by other laws. I do see the value in publicly announcing things, but I do see newspapers as archaic.
- therealx 7y ago
  Most modern states just post a sign over the door prior to opening that X company seeks Y license and this location.
  - pfranz 7y ago
    Yeah, that works for changes at a physical location. What about founding of an LLC or other less tangible changes? Even with a physical sign it would be nice to have a searchable long term record. That seems to be what newspapers fulfilled; public broadcast and a reasonable long-term archive.
    - pas 7y ago
      Around here the Company Court (which decides that a company formation was lawful and registers the company) has a journal/gazette, and that's the official record. Nowadays it's of course fully on-line. And lawyers (who submit the paperwork of the new company) do it exclusively on-line (they basically upload a signed ZIP of the scanned pages and an XML)! The clerks at this court look at the scanned pages and confirm that yes they do say what the XML says, and then this gets published. People can search for company histories, look at their bylaws, etc. Similarly there's a different gov service for publishing corporate yearly financial reports. Why isn't something like that for US states?
dharmon 7y ago
In Palo Alto we would receive notices in our mailbox whenever a local business was applying for a liquor license. I think this is fairly common.

by moftz 7y ago

pfranz 7y ago

I've noticed a lot of "public notice" laws. Either a physical sign on the property or something published in the newspaper. I'm not quite sure what the digital equivalent would be--a government run "announce" page that gets indexed and archived? Not really much different from press releases governments and businesses already do required by other laws. I do see the value in publicly announcing things, but I do see newspapers as archaic.

therealx 7y ago
Most modern states just post a sign over the door prior to opening that X company seeks Y license and this location.
- pfranz 7y ago
  Yeah, that works for changes at a physical location. What about founding of an LLC or other less tangible changes? Even with a physical sign it would be nice to have a searchable long term record. That seems to be what newspapers fulfilled; public broadcast and a reasonable long-term archive.
  - pas 7y ago
    Around here the Company Court (which decides that a company formation was lawful and registers the company) has a journal/gazette, and that's the official record. Nowadays it's of course fully on-line. And lawyers (who submit the paperwork of the new company) do it exclusively on-line (they basically upload a signed ZIP of the scanned pages and an XML)! The clerks at this court look at the scanned pages and confirm that yes they do say what the XML says, and then this gets published. People can search for company histories, look at their bylaws, etc. Similarly there's a different gov service for publishing corporate yearly financial reports. Why isn't something like that for US states?

dharmon 7y ago

In Palo Alto we would receive notices in our mailbox whenever a local business was applying for a liquor license. I think this is fairly common.