2023-79 Ordinance Amending City Code Chapter 52 Alcoholic Liquor

Home Browse Search

Historic Neighborhood Use. Video gaming shall be prohibited in establishments that possess a Class H license. Class I, under which the licensed premises may only be a restaurant at which alcoholic liquor may be sold by the drink or pitcher only, for consumption on the premises and only at tables and incidental to the service of meals. A Class I licensee shall not be permitted to operate on the licensed premises a bar or lounge area at which alcoholic liquors alone may be purchased, which said Class I license shall not be issued for any premises situated in any Residence, Office or Park Mobile Home or Neighborhood Shopping District as established by the Zoning Ordinance unless the licensed premises are a club house connected with a golf course or a restaurant establishment as an approved Historic Neighborhood Use. A Class I Restaurant shall be defined as any public place kept, used, maintained, advertised and held out to the public primarily as a place where meals are served and where meals are actually prepared and served without sleeping accommodations, such space being provided with adequate and sanitary kitchen which shall include, but not limited to, sink; refrigerator with the minimum capacity of 20 cubic feet; and oven with the minimum capacity of 4.3 cubic feet or a range or a grill; and dining equipment and capacity and having employed therein a sufficient number and kind of employees to prepare, cook and serve suitable food for its guests, where the sale or consumption of alcoholic liquor is only incidental to the serving of meals and where 50% or more of the gross revenue of the business must be from the serving of meals. A restaurant must serve at least four (4) full entree style meals available to be ordered from and/or served at the customer's table. The mere availability and service at any premises of cold or hot sandwiches, pre-cooked frozen meals that are reheated, hors d'oeuvres, popcorn, nachos, pretzels, potato chips,hot dogs, candy, or other snack foods will not, standing alone, be deemed sufficient to constitute such premises as a restaurant within the meaning of this Chapter. Class I Restaurants may not share interior access to another business, may not share the same utilities, and said premises shall have a seating capacity for the service of meals at tables and/or counters for not less than twenty-five (25) patrons at the same time. Alcoholic liquor may be dispensed and sold no later than one (1) hour after meal service has ended Class J, under which alcoholic liquor may be sold only in packages for consumption off the licensed premises, and under which the licensed premises may only be a retail establishment which derives more than 50% of its gross income from the sale of goods other than alcoholic liquors and in which the licensee has invested, after January 1, 1991, not less than $1,000,000 (which may include the capitalized value of the first ten years only of a leasehold interest), and, which establishment employs a minimum of 50 full-time employees, or the equivalent thereof, at the licensed premises, which said Class J license shall not be issued for any premises situated in any Residence, Office, Park Mobile Home or Neighborhood Shopping District established by the Zoning Ordinance unless