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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1956-260 - Regulations on Restaurants Selling Nonintoxicating LiquorBill No. ~~ Ordinance No. ~ to ~ AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING REGULATIONS AS REGARDS THE OPERATING OF RESTAURANTS ANU EATING PLACES IN THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE;, WHEREIN NON-INTOXICATING LI~~,UOR CONTAINING NOT MORE THAN FOUR PERCENT ALCOHOL BY VOLUME IS OFFERED FOR SALE BY THE DRINK, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION OF THE TERMS HEREOF. BE IT ORDAIPdED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEIQ OF THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE, i+IISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. All restaurants or other eating establish- ments within the City of Riverside in which restaurants or establishments non-intoxicating beer containing not more than 4 alcohol by volume is offered for sale by the drink, shall not be recuired to close their establishment at the hours provided by the ordinances of this city for the closing of taverns, if the volume of sales of non-intoxicating beer in uch restaurant or other eating establishment shall not exeeed~9o of the total sales of food, non-intoxicating beer and other merchandise sold by said restaurant or establishment. Section 2. All such restaurants or establishments shall, however, cease the sale of non-intoxicating beer at the same hours as are provided by the ordinances of the City of Riverside for the cessation of such sales by taverns within the City of Riverside. Any customer who is drinking beer, shall have consumed any beer ordered by him by the time provided by ordinance for the closing of taverns, or the proprietor of such restaurant or eating establishment shall have removed any un- consume d_ beer from the tables and counters in said establishment and disposed of it by such time. Section 3. All such restaurants and establishments which, so long as there are any customers within such restaurant or establishment after the hour provided by ordinance for the closing of taverns on each day, shall keep the main entrance to said restaurant or other establishment unlocked, and after such closing time set for taverns and until the last customer leaves such restaurant or other establishment, shall keep sufficient libhting throughout all of such restaurant or est- ablishment so that at no place in said establishment shall there be light of less than twenty candle power. Further, all such restaurants and other establishments shall have a glass window in the front thereof of not less than three feet by four feet dimensions, which shall be of clear glass and shall afford an unobstructed view into the interior of such establishment. If a bar is operated in connection with the eating facilities in such restaurant or establishment, then there must be in the front of said building, a window of such proportions affording a view of such bar. Section ~. Such window shall not be illuminated in any manner so as to interfere with the view of any person on the outside of said building desiring to see into said building. Section 5. Intoxicating lig.uor shall not be allowed in any such restaurant or establishment and no customer shall be allowed to open bottles of intoxicating liquor while in such an establishment and either drink from said bottles or pour a portion of said intoxicating liquor into any soft drink or other beverage or liquid in said restaurant or eating establish- ment. No set-ups shall be served. All soft drinks shall be poured into a glass before being served, and no empty glasses or glasses containing only ice shall be served to any customer in such restaurant or establishment. Section 6. There which customers are served shall be visible from the standing within three feet of. shall be windows in all roams in so that the interior of such roans outside of the building to any person of said window on the outside there- Section 7. The Board of Aldermen shall have the right at any time to cause the books of any restaurant or other eating establishment to be inspected by the City Marshal for the purpose of determining the percentage of the total sales which is allocable to non-intoxicating beer. Section 8. Any person owning or managing any restaurant or other eating establishment who shall violate the terms of this ordinance or shall permit the violation of the terms of this ordinance by any employee or customer within said restaurant or eating establishment, shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine of not more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than ninety (90) days, or both such fine and imprisonment and costs. Section 9. The license of any operator who shall violate or permit the violation of the terms of this ordinance in the establishment for which he holds such license after having been previously found guilty of a violation of the terms of this ordinance shall, in addition to the other penalties pro- vided for herein, forfeit such license and the city shall revoke and cancel such license immediately upon his conviction for such second offense. The owner of the building in which such operator was operating shall be allowed to lease to some other operator who is in no way connected with the operator whose license shall have been forfeited. Passed this f~~day of ~,~~ 1956. ATTEST: ,~/ /~' .fit -y -,_, A R ~/ i4~-7z~'. CITY CLERK ~ Approved this ~ day of _[~~~, 1956. _ l z' , / ~~~ ~ MAY