licensing laws
Authorization legal requirements
Licensing laws are regulations governing the issuance of licenses—official permissions to engage in activities that would otherwise be restricted or prohibited.
The term most commonly refers to laws controlling the sale of alcohol: operating hours, age restrictions, who can sell, and where.
Beyond alcohol, licensing laws regulate professions (medicine, law), businesses (restaurants, taxis), firearms, broadcasting, and other activities the state chooses to control.
The pub closed early because of licensing laws.
- permitOfficial written authorization
- alcohol salesCommerce in intoxicating drinks
- liquor boardAgency regulating alcohol sales
- credentialingVerifying professional qualifications
- certificationAttestation of qualification
licensing agreement · age verification · proof of age · legal drinking age · accreditation · continuing education · advertising restrictions · vehicle registration · sublicensing · state regulations · professional associations · excise taxes · prohibition · content regulation · liquor · regulations · hours · closing time
- lawslaws, statute, ordinance, acts, statutes
- local lawszoning, city ordinances, zoning ordinance, city ordinance, permits
- regulationsrules, rule, regulations, regulation, law
- state lawsstate statutes, state code, state constitution, criminal code, WAC
- tavernstavern keeper, taverns, tavern sign, tavern wench, inns
- British Beerale, bitter, lager, mild, porter
licensing lawsderegulation
Removing governmental business restrictions
free market · laissez-faire · open access · self-regulation · decriminalization
licensing lawslaissez-faire economics
Minimal state economic involvement
free enterprise · anarcho-capitalism · libertarianism · voluntary association · spontaneous order