§ 67. License fees, duration of licenses; fee for part of year. Effective April first, nineteen hundred eighty-three, licenses issued pursuant to sections sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three, sixty-four, sixty-four-a and sixty-four-b of this article shall be effective for three years at three times that annual fee, except that, in implementing the purposes of this section, the liquor authority shall schedule the commencement dates, duration and expiration dates thereof to provide for an equal cycle of license renewals issued under each such section through the course of the fiscal year. Effective December first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight, licenses issued pursuant to sections sixty-four, sixty-four-a and sixty-four-b of this article shall be effective for two years at two times that annual fee, except that, in implementing the purposes of this section, the liquor authority shall schedule the commencement dates, duration and expiration dates thereof to provide for an equal cycle of license renewals issued under each such section through the course of the fiscal year. Notwithstanding the foregoing, commencing on December first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight and concluding on July thirty-first, two thousand two, a licensee issued a license pursuant to section sixty-four, sixty-four-a or sixty-four-b of this article may elect to remit the fee for such license in equal annual installments. Such installments shall be due on dates established by the liquor authority and the failure of a licensee to have remitted such annual installments after a due date shall be a violation of this chapter. For licenses issued for less than the three-year licensing period, the license fee shall be levied on a pro-rated basis. The entire license fee shall be due and payable at the time of application. The liquor authority may make such rules as shall be appropriate to carry out the purpose of this section.