Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-27


for a retail or a wholesale liquor es-
tablishment, or both, to be conducted
on said street, between said two inter-
secting streets, then the board shall
not grant any for two years, nor until
a written request containing the sig
natures of property owners represent
ing more than one-half the aggregate
frontage on both sides of the street
between the two intersecting streets,
and which signatures shall have been
subscribed thereto within thirty days
from the date of filing the request, Is
filed with the board of police commits
sioners requesting that the petition,
which prays the board to grant no
more permits, be of no further force
or effect. But at any time thereafter
another petition, representing more
than one-half the aggregate Of 'front.'
age on both sides of the street between
the said two intersecting streets as re-
quired in this section for the petition,
which prays the board of police COM
missioners to grant no more permits,
may be filed with the said board, and
have the same binding force on the
board as the original petition request
ing the board to grant no more per-
mits, provided that all of the sigma
lures attached to the petition shall have
been obtained during the thirty days
prior to the filing of the petition.
MAY CHANGE LOCATIONS
Nothing in the ordinance shall affect
any wholesale or retail liquor estab-
lishments already in existence, which,
in case a petition as above provided Is
filed restricting the board OF police
commissioners from issuing any more
permits in the street in which such
liquor establishments are located, shall
have the right to change their location
in the street, between the two inter-
secting streets as set out in the petit
ton, but the right to change the loca>
ton shall be only upon the side OF the
street on which they are situated.
The board of police commissioners,
when an application is made for a per-
nit for the issuance of license to con-
duct hotel liquor establishment, shaAl
consider the bar room or saloon or
such hotel liquor establishment a re-
tail establishment and subject to the
provisions of this section, unless the
street entrance to said bar room or sa-
loon opens upon a street other than one
affected by a petition as provided In
this section.
The board of police commissioners
shall not grant permit for the issu-
ance of a license to conduct a retail
liquor establishment to a corporation,
but shall issue it only to natural per-
sons. Whenever an application for q
permit is made In behalf of a place
owned or conducted by a corporation,
the police commissioners may grant
such permit to one of the executive
officers.
The police commissioners shall not
grant a liquor permit of the same or
any other kind to a person who al
ready holds one kind of liquor per-
init; provided that nothing in this
section shall be construed to affect
outstanding permits.
The police commissioners shall not
grant a permit to conduct a retail
liquor establishment or hotel liquor
establishment to any person, firm or
corporation, or agent, employe or rep
resentative of any person, firm or cor
poration engaged in the business Of
conducting a brewery or place en-
gagged in the manufacture of malt or
spirituous liquors.
The police commissioners shall not
grant a permit to conduct wholesale
liquor establishment which has more
than one room in which the selling
department of such wholesale liquor
establishment is to be carried on, and
which room is not located on the
ground floor with an entrance to the
same from the street.
200 Is LIMIT
No permits for retail liquor licenses
in excess of 200 shall at any time be
granted by the police commissioners
within liquor zone No. l, and none in
excess of six within liquor zone No. 2
of San Pedro, and none in excess of
one within liquor zone No. 3 at Will
mington; provided that the number or
permits for hotel liquor establishments
shall be included in the number of
permits for liquor licenses in each
zone; and provided that the limit as
fixed herein for the number of permits
to be granted within liquor zones Nos.
2 and 8 shall not affect retail liquor
establishments already in existence.
No permits for wholesale liquor IL
censes in excess Of ninety shall at any
time be granted by the police COM
within liquor zone No. l,
and only one In liquor zone No. 2,
and one in liquor zone No. 8.
All permits granted by the police
to conduct a retail
liquor establishment, restaurant
LIQUOR establishment of either class
and hotel liquor establishment shall
expire and be null and void at mid
night June 80 each year; provided that
the holder of such a permit shall be
entitled to have the same renewed for
any ensuing year by the police COM
missioners before 1t expires upon the
filing with the board by the holder of
an affidavit setting forth the facts
that the holder is the sole and exclu- |
sive owner of the business for which |
ne seeks a renewal of his permit, and |
that he desires 1t for his own use,
and that he has no interest in, or |
with, as owner, agent, |
or employe Of any |
brewery or place engaged in the man
fracture or production of spirituous, |
malt. or mixed liquors, and that he
has no agreement or understanding, |
either written or verbal, with any
,ther liquor establishment, brewery or
place engaged in the manufacture or
production OF spirituous, malt or
mixed intoxicating liquors, whereby
lis complete and absolute control Of
he establishment he is making the
application to conduct would be in the
east affected or abridged. Upon the
iling of such affidaVits, If the said |
BOARD Of police commissioners finds |
hat the statements therein contained |
ire true, said board shall reissue the
permit Of the liquor establishment, the
'enewal of which is so applied for.
MAY SUSPEND PERMITS
Wherever under the terms of this
ordnance the police commissioners are
invested with the power to punish
'iolations thereof, or to revoke per-
nits because of such violations, the
,oard, should it deem revocation of
he permit as punishment for the case
n hand too severe, shall have the au-
hority to impose for the first offense
he suspending Of the offenders right
o carry on the kind of liquor estab
ishnent specified in his permit for a