The Arizona sentinel., 1904-08-31
ORDINANCE No. 23 An Ordinance Amending Ordi- nance No. 10 and Providing Special License for Li-
 QUOT 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 t0) and eleven OD of said ordinance. and substituting i1 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 a quarterly license tax of one hundred dollars.
 Second Class: Those whose quarterly sales amount to less than twenty thousand dollars and more than twelve thousand shall pay a quarterly license tax of fifty dollars.
 Third Class: Those whose sales amount to less than twelve thousand dollars per quar- ter shall pay aquarterIy license tax oftwenty- five dollars per quarter.
 Section 2. Any person or persons, firm, or corporation who shall sell or dispose of any wines, intoxicating, distilled or malt liquors, in quantities of less than two gallons and not less than one pint, ard who shall sell no liquor by the glass, nor permit the liquor sold by him to be drunk customarily on the pre- mises where sold, is hereby defined to be retail liquor dealer, and each such dealer shall pay a license tax of twenty dollars per quarter, payable quarterly in advance.
 Section 8, 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 or portion thereof to be drunk customarily on the pre- mises 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 1. Every person who shall desire to engage. in the town Of Yuma, in the busi- ness of selling or disposing Of any wines, in toxicating, distilled or malt liquors, as a re- t=Il liquor dealer, or as saloon keeper, shall, 5<elere engagingin the said business, present to the Common Council of the town of Yuma an application for license to engage in said business, which said application shall state the name, age, birth-place 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 busi- 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 before the Common Council and ask hearing, and that they issue him 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. A 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 newspap published in the town of Yuma.
 Section 5. At the said hearing upon the said application. said applicant shall present to the Common Council a petition, asking that applicants license be granted. said petition to be signed by as large number as ap- plicant can secure to sign said petition, Of the owners Of real property fronting upon the street where the said business is proposed to be elocated, in the block where said business is proposed to be located, and of the owners of real property situated directly
 
 from any property last described. PFovi- ded, that where the owner of said real proper fy is not a resident of the town of Yuma, or is corporation, the said owDer shall not be eligible to sign said petition, but the tenant 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 ar, Ior 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 shall not be full, approve fhe said application, and orcer the town tax collector to issue applicant a license accord ing to the request of said application. Section 6. The proceeding sections num- Der four tD and five (0 shall not be construed 10 apply to any person who at the 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 bushes, 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 four(D and five t5) hereof for a 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 out 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 (3) | 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 () retail liquor 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 more licenses to saloon keepers, Section S. The licenses by this amend ment authorized to be granted shall under the direction of the Common Council, be is sued by the town tax collector in the usual form of license tax receipt as provided in sec ton two @ Of ordinance number 10. Section 9. That ordinance number 10 be and is hereby amended by striking thercfrom section six (6) Of said original ordinance, and inserting instead thereof the following: Whenever any person shall transact any business in the town Of Yuma, which is re- auired by ordinance ten OO) or this amend ment thereof to he licensed withOut first