(a) The selectboard members may license for one year, or a less time, suitable persons to keep restaurants, or other places dispensing food or drink to the public, and inns or hotels in their respective towns, and may revoke such licenses granted by them or by their predecessors when the public good requires it. This subsection shall not apply to homes catering to tourists, tearooms, or tourist camps.

(b) The judges of the Superior Court may grant licenses to keep inns or hotels in unorganized towns and gores in their respective counties and may revoke the same when the public good so requires.

(c) A person who keeps an inn, hotel, restaurant, or other place dispensing food or drink to the public without a license, when one is required, as provided in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, shall be fined not less than $10.00 nor more than $50.00. (Amended 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974; 2013, No. 161 (Adj. Sess.), § 72.)