No person, employee, servant or agent shall bottle, blend, sell, barter, transport, deliver, furnish, store or possess any alcoholic or intoxicating liquor or beverages in the City except as provided in this chapter.
Provided, however, nothing herein contained shall prevent the possession and transportation of alcoholic liquor for the personal use of the possessor, his family and guests, nor prevent the making of wine, cider or other alcoholic liquor by a person from fruits, vegetables or grains, or the products thereof, by simple fermentation and without distillation, if it is made solely for the use of the maker, his family and his guests, as permitted by the laws of the State; and provided further, that nothing contained in this chapter shall prevent any duly licensed practicing physician or dentist from possessing or using alcoholic liquor in the strict practice of such profession of the possessor thereof, or any hospital or other institution caring for sick and diseased persons, from possession and using alcoholic liquors for the treatment of bona fide patients of such hospital or other institution; and provided further, that any drugstore employing a licensed pharmacist may possess and use alcoholic liquors in the concoction of prescriptions of duly licensed physicians, subject to the regulations and license provided in this chapter; and provided further, that the possession and dispensation of wine by an authorized representative of any church for the purpose of conducting any bona fide rite or religious ceremony conducted by such church shall not be prohibited by this chapter. This chapter shall not apply to any beverages containing less than one-half of one percentum (0.5%) of alcoholic content. (Ord. 407, 6-15-1987)