Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-10
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1855

All ORDINANCE TO REGULATE
THE DISTRIBUTION AND
SALE OF CERTAIN BEVER-
AGES; TO PROVIDE FOR
THE LICENSING THEREOF;
TO PRESCRIBE FOR THE
VIOLATION OF THIS ORDIN-
ANCE; AND TO PROVIDE
THAT THIS ORDINANCE
SHALL TAKE EFFECT I'M
MEDIATELY.
The City Council of the City OF
Ell Centre do ordain as follows:
SECTION I: as used in this
Act:
(a) Beverage means and in
cludes any beer, lager beer, ale
porter, wine, similar fermenteC
malt or vinous liquor, and fruit
juice, or other fermented beverage
containing not less than one-hali
of one per cent and not more thar
three and two tenth per cent Of
alcohol by weight.
OBJ Person" means and includes
every natural person. partnership
association, company, corporation
organization, or manager, agent
servant, officer or employee of any
of them.
Co Sale" means and includes
any sale, exchange, barter or Other
act whereby the title to bever'
age is transferred for a considera.
ton, from an "on sale" license Of
"off sale" license as herein de-
fined, to any other person and thu
words sell or sold" means anc
include the act of making any such
sale'.
I'D "On sale license" means ant
includes a license to sell beverages
at retail for consumption only OF
the premises in respect to which
the license is issued.
(e) "Off sale license" means ant
includes a license to sell beverage
at retail in original packages TO
consumption only off the premise
in respect to which the license
issued.
| % Package" means and in
cludes and container or receptacl
used for holding or containin
beverages, which container or re
ceptacle is corked or sealed.
| (g) "Corked" and sealed" shal
mean and include closed with an
stub, stopper, or cap, whethe
made of cork, wood, glass, metal o
other material.
(h) Board means the City Coun
Gil of the City of Ell Centre.
ID Premises" as used in Sec
ton III hereof, shall, when ap
piled to drive-in eating places, in
clude the stand from which meal
are served and the grounds i'm
mediately surrounding such stand
on and from which meals are serv
ed, in the usual and ordinary cours
of such business.
! SECTION II: In addition to an
other occupation tax. license fe
for retail sales of beverages q
herein defined shall be and Is here
by imposed and fixed as follows:
(a) For an ION sale" licens'
$4,000 per annum.
(b) For an "off sale" licens
$1,000 per annum.
All licenses hereunder shall expir
on the Both day of June mex
succeeding the date of their is
suance and subject to the fore
going provisions, such license sha
be for a period of one year an
shall be payable on the first da
of said period; provided that tn
application for such license sha
be accompanied by the license fe
as hereinbefore set forth, or pro
portionate part thereof, which 1
no case shall be less than twenty
five per cent of the annual fee.
SECTION III: ION sale" licensee
shall be granted only to bona fid
restaurants, public eating place
clubs, boarding houses, or hotels.
"On sale" licensees may serv
beverages as herein defined
guests and patrons only, to be con
sumed only with meals furnishe
in good faith at regular publ
tables or at eating counters 9
which said guests and said patron
are seated, or in the case of club
or hotels, may be served in guest
rooms. In the case OF drive-in-eat
ing places, such beverages may b
served with meals within the pre-
misses as said terms is defined b
subdivision ID of Section 1 hereo
"Off sale " licensees may sell bev
erages as herein defined in originu