(A) Licenses may be issued to qualified applicants, as herein provided, whereby the licensee shall be authorized and permitted to sell alcoholic beverages at retail in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter. Qualified applicants shall include persons, hotels, clubs and fraternal organizations.
(B) Where a license hereunder is issued for a period commencing subsequent to the first of the current year a pro rata charge may be made therefor, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to entitle any licensee hereunder to any refund of any portion of the license fee in the event of the discontinuing of such business, or the suspension or revocation of his or her license, except that he or she shall be entitled to a pro rata refund in the event that his or her business is discontinued by virtue of said State Alcoholic Beverage Code being, by referendum petition, rendered inoperative and awaiting such time as it may be passed upon at an election.
(C) The license fees herein provided for are exclusive of and in addition to other license fees chargeable in this city for the sale of beer and malt beverages.
(Ord. 165, passed 5-27-1995; Ord. 2021-01, passed 5-17-2021)