2024-125 Ordinance Amending City Code Chapter 52 - Alcoholic Liquor

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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 V, under which a licensed premises is authorized to pour and serve alcoholic liquor for on-premises consumption, where video gaming is not expressly prohibited by this Chapter, and where the licensed premises requests to operate video gaming terminals inside the licensed premises. Class V liquor licenses shall be issued in addition to the Class of license which authorizes the premises to sell alcoholic liquor and shall run concurrent with said license. Class V licenses shall not be issued for Class B, Class D, Class E, Class F, Class H, Class J, Class K, Class L, Class M, Class N and Class P liquor licenses. Except for Class C licenses, beginning July 1, 2024, each Class V licensee shall not have greater than sixty (60) percent of gross revenue annually from video gaming. The requirements for non-gaming revenue shall go into effect from and after July 1, 2024 for all license holders in existence and holding a liquor license on the date of passage of this amendment. Class P liquor licenses shall not be required to hold a Class V license to operate as a gaming parlor and they shall not be required to meet a minimum threshold of non-gaming revenue. All first time applicants establishme applying for Class V licenses must be in epefation for-at least one ( `yprior-to the apliea4^" enter into a development agreement with the Ci tX to be eligible for a Class V license. If the holder of a premises licensed to sell alcoholic liquor is suspended or revoked, the Class V license shall be automatically suspended or revoked for the same time period and upon the same terms. The number of Class V licenses will be limited to the aggregate number of liquor establishments having valid licenses for video gaming in existing Class A, Class C, Class G, Class I and Class O establishments as of the date this Seel ^., ,.f Chapter-52 ; adopted.... ...7. LICENSE FEE. Beginning July 1, 2024,payment of an annual license fee of Two Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($2,200.00) shall accompany each application for all classes of license except Class BYOB as to which the amount of said fee shall be Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), and Class F as to which the amount of said fee shall be Seven Hundred Twenty-Five