2005-37 AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 52 - ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR

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r - ORDINANCE NO. 2005-37 ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY CODE -CHAPTER 52 -ALCOAOLIC LIQUOR- BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS: Section 1. That Section 4 of Chapter 52 of the City Code of the City of Decatur, Illinois, be, and the same is hereby, modified and amended by adding a new Class K to the license classifications, to be inserted immediately following Class J, and to provide as follows: Class under which the licensed premises may only be a movie theater in which the licensee has invested therein after January 1, 2004 not less than Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00) as reasonably determined by the Local Liquor Control Commissioner using general recognized accounting practices and said licensed premises must be located in the B-4 Central Business District of downtown Decatur. A Class K license shall authorize beer and wine only to be sold by the drink only for consumption on the premises incidental to the viewing of motion pictures and shall not be permitted to operate on the licensed premises a bar or lounge area at which alcoholic liquors alone may be purchased. A Class K license shall be personal to the licensee and exclusively limited to the premises and shall not be used for any premises situated in any Residence, Office, Park Mobile Home or Neighborhood Shopping District established by the Zoning Ordinance. Section 2. That Sections 10 and 17 of said Chapter 52 be, and the same is hereby modified and amended so that said Sections 10 and 17, as modified and amended shall provide as follows: Section 10. NUMBER OF LICENSES. The issuance of a maximum number of Class A licenses combined with Class B licenses is limited to 95. There shall be no maximum for the issuance of the respective Class C, Class D, Class E, Class F, Class G, Class I, Class J or Class K licenses. Issuance of Class H licenses is limited to 1.