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low:
Section i. Definitions. In the in
depreciation OF these regulations, un-
less the context indicates q different
meaning:
The word "act" means the act Of
Congress entitled an act to control
the manufacture, transportation, pos
session and sale of alcoholic beverages
in the District of Columbia" approved
January "a, 1884.
The word license" shall mean q IL
cense issued under said act.
The word "licensee' shall mean the
holder of Q license issued under said
act.
Words defined in section Of said
act shall have the same meaning in
these regulations.
Section 2. Except in the case Of a
solicitor, no license shall be issued to
any person unless he Is the holder of
certificate OF occupancy issued under
the authority Of the coming act and
the regulations promulgated hereunder
for the business for which such license
is sought to be obtained, and is also
the holder Of all other licenses and
permits required by law or regulation
for such business.
Distance Regulation.
Section 3. (a) No license other than
q retailers license class B, or retail
er's license class C or class D issued
for a club or hotel, or a retailers
license class E, or q retailers license
class F issued as hereinafter provided.
shall be issued for any place Of busi-
ness within 400 feet of any public, pri-
vate or parochial primary, elementary
or high school or any college, univer-
sity or church: Provided, however,
that this section shall not apply to any
business established on January "a,
nor forbid the issuance OF license for
any place within such prohibited dis
tance for which said place a license Of
the same class has been issued and is
in effect on the date the application is
filed A retailers license class F may
be issued for q place within such pro-
hibited distance with the consent OF
such school. college, university or
church. Said distance shall be meas
ured between the nearest street en-
trance to said place of business and the
nearest street entrance to said school,
college, university or church by the
shortest line between such entrances on,
over or across any public Travelled
way or public park or parking.
(b) No beverage shall be sold or
served by any licensee upon any portion
Of any premises not within building
which said portion OF said premises
fronts upon, abuts or adjoins or is op-
posite to the premises Of any public,
private or parochial primary, ele-
mentary, high school, college. univer-
sity or church. This subsection shall
not apply to the premises designated in
a retailers license class F.
Section 4. No license shall be granted
for the sale Of beverages in any build
ing, q part of which is used as a dwell
ing or lodging house, unless the appli-
cant shall file an affidavit, signed and
sworn to by him, stating that access
from the portion of said building so
used as a dwelling or lodging house to
the portion where the said applicant
desires to sell said beverages is effective
ly closed. unless the board shall indorse
upon such application that it has dis
pensed with such requirement for rea-
sons considered by it to be satisfactory
and shall also indorse thereon said rea-
sons. If any way of access from the
other portion of said building to the
portion used for sale Of such beverages
shall be opened after such license is
board Endorsed on said license, such
license shall thereupon be subject to
revocation by the said board, and shall
be null and void. And said board may
order seals to be so placed that such
way Of access cannot be opened with
out breaking, and such seals shall not
be broken without the consent of the
board. This section shall not apply to
hotel or club.
Freedom to See Premises.
Section S. All applicants for licenses
and persons holding licenses under the
act shall allow any member of the
board, or any duly authorized inspector
Of the board, full opportunity and every
facility to examine at any time during
business hours the premises where any
beverage is manufactured, kept or sold
or for which q license Is asked or has
been granted.
Section 6. No beverages. nor any
container bearing a label showing OF
implying or importing the name of any
beverage. shall be displayed by the
holder Of retailers license Class c OF
Class D in the space in which beverages
are sold or served in any place visible
from such space except such beverages
as are expressly ordered by a customer
for immediate consumption; and nc
| beverages shall be mixed in the space
in which beverages are sold or served OF
in any place visible from such space.
Section 7. The authority. if granted
by the board, for any holder Of a re.
tailer's license Glass c or Glass D tc
sell or serve beverages to assemblages o!
more than six persons in private room