The Arizona sentinel., 1904-09-07
ORDINANCE No. 23 An Ordinance Amending Ordi- nance No. 10 and Providing Special License for Li-
 auOr Dealers.

The Common Council Of the Town Of Yuma
 do hereby ordain as follows:
 That ordinance No. 10 be and is hereby amended by striking therefrom Sections ten tlO) and eleven CID of said ordinance. and substituting il their stead the following:
 Section l. All persons who shall sell or dispose of any wines, Intoxicating, distilled, or malt liquors in quantities of two gallons and upwards, are hereby defined to be whole sale liquor dealers. and the said dealers shall pay license taxes as follows:
 First Class: Those whose quarterly sales amount to twenty thousand dollars and up- wards shall pay aquarterIy lieepsc tax ef c11e hundred dollars
 Second Class: Those wlEoSe qGf5rterfy sales amount to less than twenty tsousxnd dollars and more than twelve thous;md shaII pay q quarterly license tax of fifty sFeflarS.
 Third Class: Those wlsusc sales ssifEOEJnt to Eess than twelve tE0usrrff dollars per quar- ter sharf pay aqu3srteTfy Tfc1PSe tsN of twenty five dollars pN,T quarter
 Section 2 Airy person or persons, firm, or c-rpoEatfon who shsT sell or dispose Of any wines. Intoxicating distilled or malt liquors, fn quantities of less than two gallons and not Ness than one pint, ard who shall sell no Efquor by the glass, nor permit the iTuOr sold by him to be drunk custOmarily on the pre- mises where sold, is hereby defined to be a retail liquor dealer, and each such dealer shall pay license tax of twenty dollars per quarter, payable quarterly in advance.
 Section 2, Any person who shall sell or dispose of wines, intoxicating, distilled or malt liquors, in quantities of one quart or less, and allow the same portion thereof to be drunk custOmariy on the pre- snises were sold, from the glass, or otherwise, are hereby defined to be saloon keepers. Each saloon keeper shall pay license tax of fifty dollars per quarter, payable quarterly in advance.
 Section f. Every person who shall desire to engage, in the town of Yumd, in the bTTSf- ness of selling or disposing of any wines in- toXicating, distilled or malt liquors, as a re- tail liquor dealer, or as saloon keeper. shall, before engaging in the said business, present to the Common Council Of the town of Yuma an application for a license 10 engage in said business, which said application shall state the name, age, birthplace and occupation of the applicant, the street and rooM in which he proposes to open said business, and every other place where the applicant has heretofore conducted a saloon or liquor buST- ness, describing the said place by town, state. street and number, or if the streets be not named and numbered, then by other equally minute description. The said application shall state the date when the applicant will appear beforethe Common Council and ask a hearing, and that they issne him a license, which date shall be at a regular meeting of the Common Council. At the said date, upon the hearing of the said application, any resident of the town of Yuma may appear and show cause, if any there be, why the license applied for should not be granted. copy of said appli- cation shall be published by the town clerk, at applicants expense, before the said hearing in at least two regular issues of some weekly news paper published in the town of YuIna.
 Section }. At the said hearing upon the said application, said applicant shall present to she Common Council a petition, asking that applicants license be granted, said petition 90 be signed by as large number as ap- plicaat can secure to sign said petition, Of tho owners of real property fronting upon the street where the s;sid business is proposed tcS beloested, in the block where said busqTess is. proposed to be located, and Of the oEvncTs Of real property situated directly across tlre said street, al right angles from any property last described. PrOvi- ded, that where the owner of said real proper ty is not resident of the town of Yuma, or Js a corporation, tire said owner shall not be eligible to sign said petition, but the tenaEt occupying the property last aforesaid may sign. If upon the said hearing the Common Council shall judge that the record Of the applicant in business, and his personal char acter are such that he will conduct an orderly place of business, and that the business he proposes to establish should be allowed in the place where applicant proposes to establish same, then the Common Council shall, pro- viding the number of licenses of that class as Limited hereinafter shalEnot be full, approve the said application, and oTrer the town tax collector to issue applicant a license accord jng to the request of said application.
 Section 6 The proceeding sections num- Der four (D and five @ shall not be construed to apply to any person who at tine date of the passage of this amendment is holder of a license from the town of Yuma, authorizing him to conduct retail liquor business or a saloon btIsineS, so long as he shall conduct The same character of business aS authorized by the said license, in the same place or room where it is authorized by said license to be conducted; nor shall this amendment be con- strued as requiring any holder Of saloon keepers or retail liquor dealers license during any quarter, to apply as provided in sections fourD and five (5) hereof for renewal Of his said license, at the end of that quarter; butany such license, HOW issued or hereinafter grant ed, may be renewed to the same person for The same business, in the same place, or room, by resolution of the Common Council, with cut application, petition. formal hearing, or publication of application. as in other cases by this amendment required, Section :. So long as there shall be issued and in force in the town of Yuma, three C3l wholesale liquor dealers licenses, the Council shall grant no more licenses to wholesale liquor dealers; and so long as there shall be issued and in force in said town six (6) retai. Mquor dealers licenses, the Council shall grant no more licenses to retail liquor dealers; and so long as there shall be issued and in force in the said town fifteen Q5) saloon Keepers licenses, the Council shall grant no alore licenses to-saaoon keepers, Section S. The licenses" by this amend Inent authorized to- be granted shall under She direc4iolE of theCemmou Council, be is- ssseS bsr the, town tfsN collector, in the usual s)r79 Of license tsN reee;Pt provided in sec sic1s tsU @ of orJsil4sglce naInber l9. ,Sectioa Q That ordinance number 10 be and SS hegeby amended Icy striking therefrom sectioa six (s) Of said original ordinance, and inserting instead thereof the following:
 Whenever any person shaIl transact any business in the town Of Yuma, which is re- suired by ordinance ten 00) or tsis amend ment thereof to be licensed, without first having secured, according to the provisions of the said ordinance ten QG) and this amend men thnranr .i lPenSe pT1titIinp him