The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-10-07


hy the prohibition commissioner, with ref
renee to the possession and sale of any
such liquors. In the event of failure to
comply strictly herewith the amount of
said bond shall be forfeited to the state of
Wisconsin and in addition the persons so
offending shall be liable to all other penal
ties herein prescribed.
Section 1868. No person who shall
Keep or have in possession for retail sale
Misunderstanding beverages as defined in
section 1868 hereof shall at any time
have in his possession or under his control
in the building in which he conducts his
business or selling or dispensing any such
beverages any intoxicating liquor defined
in said section. The prohibition commits
sioner or his deputies shall have the right
of access at all reasonable hours, without
notice, to the premises occupied by any such
retail dealer in Notwithstanding beverages,
to investigate if this provision is being
Section 1862. No place in which non
intoxicating drinks or beverages, as defined
in section 1868 hereof, are sold or dis
pensed for consumption upon the premises
where sold, shall maintain a standing bar
or counter at which any such drinks or
beverages containing alcohol in any degree
are permitted to be drank or consumed by
the purchaser.
Section 1569-1O. The common council of
cities, the village board of villages and the
town board of towns for the purpose of
regulating and enforcing the sanitary con-
duct of places in which Notwithstanding
beverages as defined in section 1868
hereof are manufactured or sold may pass
ordinances fixing the terms and conditions
under which such places may be conducted
and operated and may limit the number of
such places, and the locations at which such
business or any part thereof may be con-
Quoted and may require that any person
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shall first procure a permit (which permit
may be revoked for failure to comply with
the conditions of this act or any ordinances
relating to said business) A fee of not
more than one hundred dollars per annun
may be exacted before the granting of such
permit and shall be payable in such amounts
and at such times as may be fixed by ordi-
nance. The commodities to be sold under
such permit may be separated into classes
and separate fee may be exacted for each
class not exceeding in all the maximum OF
one hundred dollars.
1t shall be the duty Of the treasurer Of
each town, village or city in this state
wherein fee is collected for permit a.
herein provided, to remit to the state treas
urer within sixty days after such fee is col
lected five per cent Of the total amount
collected, and such moneys when so received
by the state treasurer shall be set aside and
constitute a separate fund for the payment
of salaries and other expenses of the pro-
Mbition commissioner and in carrying on
the work connected with the enforcement
of this act
Section 1569-11. Whenever number Of
the qualified electors of any town, village
or city equal to or more than ten percentum
Of the number of votes cast therein fol
governor at the last general election shall
present to the clerk thereof a petition in
writing signed by them praying that the
electors thereof may have submitted to them
the question whether or not any permit
shall be issued under the provisions of this
act to sell any Notwithstanding beverages
as defined in section 8 hereof, containing
alcohol in any degree whatsoever as a bev.
erage and shall file such petition with tht
clerk at least two weeks prior to the frs
Tuesday of April next succeeding, such
clerk shall forthwith make an order provid
ing that such question shall be submitted
on the first Tuesday in April next succeed
ing the date of such order. The city clerk
making such order shall give notice of the
election to be held on such question in the
manner notice Is given for the regular city
election; town and village clerks who make
such orders shall give notice by posting
written or printed notices in at least five
public places in the town or village moi
less than two weeks before the day of elec.
ton. The election on such question shall
be held and conducted and the returns can,
vassed in the manner in which elections in
such city, town or village on other ques.
tions are conducted and the returns thereof
canvassed The result shall be certified by
the canvassers Immediately upon the deter
mination thereof and be entered upon the
records of the town, village or city, and
shall remain in effect until another election
is held for the same purpose.
The ballots upon the question so submit.
ted shall be deposited in a separate box in
each tOUUn and aloafiNn diof,.saf nd oh oil
contain the words For permit and
Against permit and shall otherwise con.
form with the provisions of subsection oil
section 6.23. If majority of the ballots
cast upon such question be Against per-
init" then it shall be unlawful for any
person to sell or traffic in any Of the bev.
erages defined in section 1868 of this act
as Notwithstanding which contain any al.
cohol whatsoever in the town, village or
city voting against permit and any
permit granted or issued therein so long as
the result of such election shall remain un.
reversed by another election held for the
same purpose shall be void, but if a major
ity of the ballots so cast shall be For per-
NIT" it shall be lawful for the town board
village trustees or common council, as the
case may be, to grant permit for the sale
of such beverages.
The provisions Of this act shall not au-
thorize the sale of beverages containing al
cohol in any town. village or city in this
state where such sale is now illegal until
an election shall have been had under the
provisions hereof permitting such sale un-
der the conditions in this act prescribed.
Section 1851 Manufacturers and
chemists who use alcohol for industrial and
scientific purposes or in the manufacture OF
products not suitable for use as an intoxi-
eating beverage, superintendent of hospf.
tails, museums, laboratories, educational in
situations, dentists, physicians and persons
for lawful purposes, may secure permit
from the prohibition commissioner, author
izing the purchase and possession of alcohol
and liquors for the purposes permitted by
this act, upon making due application
therefor in accordance with such rules and
requirements as the prohibition commission
err may promulgate, and upon filing a bond
in such sum, not to exceed two thousand
dollars, as in the discretion of the prohibit
ton commissioner shall be required, condi-
toned that said alcohol and other liquors
will be used only for the purposes stated in
the application and permit and in accord
ance with law. Such permit may be re-
voked by the prohibition commissioner If
the conditions thereof are not complied with,
after notice is given to the holder of such
permit to appear before said prohibition
commissioner and show cause why such
permit should not be revoked.
Section 1569-13 This act shall not be
construed to authorize the confiscation or
seizure or make unlawful the possession of
LIQUORS defined in section 1868 hereof as
Intoxicating LIQUOR owned by individuals
and possessed and kept for the individual
use of the owners thereof at the time this
act becomes operative; provided such liquors
were lawfully purchased prior thereto for
private purposes and not for purposes of
unlawful sale, but all such liquors kept by
retail dealers in Notwithstanding beverages
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