2015-22 AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 52 - ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS

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ORDINANCE NO. 2015-22 ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 52 - - ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR— BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS: Section 1. That Chapter 52 of the City Code of the City of Decatur, Illinois, be, and the same is hereby modified and amended by amending Sections 4, 7 and 10, so that Sections 4, 7 and 10 as so modified and amended, shall provide as follows: 4. LICENSE CLASSIFICATIONS. Classes of local Iliquor licenses are hereby established and are hereby authorized as follows: ...Class G, under which the licensed premises may only be a restaurant in which the licensee has invested therein after May 10, 1985 not less than $250,000.00 (which may include the capitalized value of the first ten years only of a leasehold interest) as reasonably determined by the Local Liquor Control Commissioner using general recognized accounting practices, which said Class G 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 the licensed premises are a club house connected with a golf course. 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. ...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, Park Mobile Home or