a. No retail package liquor license shall be issued for any premises unless the applicant certifies under oath that ninety (90) percent of the total projected gross receipts from sale made at the licensed premises during the twelve (12) month period following the issuance of the license shall consist of the projected gross receipts from sales of alcoholic beverages; and, no such license shall be renewed for any premises unless ninety (90) percent of its gross receipts from sales for the immediate past month and the immediate past twelve (12) months have been derived from the sale of alcoholic beverages. This section shall not apply to nonprofits with Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) status when the nonprofit is selling package liquor for fundraising purposes. Said nonprofits shall be limited to sales of no more than 150 individual items per calendar year.
b. A retail package liquor license shall not be granted or issued to any licensee who proposes to sell retail package liquor at a location within one thousand (1,000) feet of a location of any similar establishment in the City of Bowling Green. This Section shall not prohibit the renewal or reissuance to the same premises of existing licenses which may be closer in proximity than the distance herein prohibited.
(Ord. BG2013-42, 12/3/2013; Ord. BG2024-11, 6/4/2024)