The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-26
CITY CONF FORMS
To LIQUOR LAW
Proposed Ordinances Drafted
TO Meet Requirements of
New Statute.
FIN LICENSE REQUIREMENT
AND OUTLINE DISTRICT
Tentative Boundaries Sug.
gested Wherein IntoXicaDts
May Be Dispersed.

Proposed city ordinances IN conformity
with IN, new state liquor law enacted oS
the recent legislature we're considered al
length bv the license committee OF the
city council Thursday evening Prelim
mary ordinances prescribinS TN" aHloun'S
that NAV nc charged for licenses and dcs
IpnatIng the license district were drafted.
The former will go 10 tho city council
Monday night. AS 10 the ordinance des-
ignating the district in which liquor may
be sold action was deferred until after
the special election which Will be held
on June - TO determine whether or not
the sale OF Intoxicating liquors shall be
permitted within Salt Lake City.
Under the sechGule OF license fees ~
the proposed new ordinance the city VIII
receive approximately the same revenue
as n does at the present time, II is un-
dcrstood The retail license, under the
tentative new ordinance. Will be the same
as il is at the present time, sl5OO year.
The wholesale license Will be $500: drug
store license. $500: club license, $500. No
provision being made in the new law as
10 foreign brewers agencies. the com
mittee decided to tax them $500 under
tho new ordinance.
Breweries and Distilleries,
Under the old law the breweries were
on beer but under the new state law
bre weries must be licensed on a capacity
basis. Under this provision the proposed
ordinance provides that breweries with n
capacity OF 5000 barrels or less year
shall pay a license of $500: capacity OF
SOM TO "a. 900, $4,000; % 600 to $4,000
$4,000: 80 900 TO 5000. $4,000; 5000 10
100. 900. s5O0G. Distilleries under tho pro-
posed ordinance must pay license of
$500 year.
The committee outlined In another ordi-
nance the proposed section Of the city
in which the sale Of LIQUOR shall be al
lowed IL the city does not go dry The
district is described In the outline OF the
proposed ordinance as follows:
Outline Saloon District
Beginning at Third West and North
OF North Temple street 10 the east side
OF State street. thence south TO First
avenue. thence east twenty rods on First
avenue. thence south twenty rods south of
East South Temple street, thence west
10 east side Of State street. thence south
on State 10 twenty rods south OF Fifth
South street, thence west 10 First West
street. thence north 10 Fourth South
street, thence west twenty rods of the
north to the north side OF First South
street. thence east to Third West street.
thence north Ia the point Of beginning.
Under the proposed ordinance Sugar
House and the Warm Springs, where ss-
looms now are will be excluded. Sepa-
rate districts cannot be made to take
in these places. according TO the city
attorneys office, and II the city council
we're 10 endeavor to extend the one dis
trict II would likely he held to be in
conflict with the new state law in that
IL would take in residential districts also.
No action, however. was taken on this
matter until the result OF the special
election is known. and hence the matter
went over until after June 27.