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Dear Mr. Bass:

Your request for an Attorney General's Opinion has been directed to me for research and response. As I understand your question, it is a follows:

"After annexation, by a municipality, of an area which has sales of beverages of high and low alcohol content, may the retail outlets continue business if the municipality permits only the sale of low alcohol content beverages by referendum?" The referendum was passed prior to the annexation by the municipality."

It would appear that the answer to the question you have asked is set forth in LSA-R.S. 26:583, which states the following:

(A)…