(A) The location of a retail package store is specifically prohibited within 300 feet of a public school or any church property primarily and regularly used for worship services and religious activities; provided that, if any such church or school shall be established within 300 feet of any licensed retail premises after such premises have been licensed, this shall not be a bar to the renewal of such license so long as it has been in continuous force and effect. The distance indicated in this section shall be measured from the nearest property line of the church or school to the nearest public entrance door of the premises of such package store, along the street right-of-way line providing the nearest direct route usually traveled by pedestrians between such points. For the purpose of determining measured distance, property situated on the opposite side of the street from such church or school, shall be considered as if it were located on the same side of the street with such church or school. A license shall not be issued for a location on any block where a school or church is located.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or maintain or to assist in the operation or maintenance of any retail package store when the premises are not separated from the premises on which any other goods, wares or merchandise are sold or services are rendered, by nontransparent walls (which may be broken by a passageway to which the public is not admitted). It shall be unlawful for any person to take any alcoholic beverage from such store through the passageway to which the public is not admitted for the purpose of selling, reselling or delivering in connection with the sale of said alcoholic beverages.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person holding a license for a retail package store, or any employee or agent thereof, to keep the premises of the retail package store open for the purpose of selling or to sell any alcoholic beverages at any hour other than between the hours of 10 a.m. and 10 p.m., Monday through Saturday or to keep such premises open for such purposes on the day of any general, primary, runoff primary or special election or on New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day.
(D) Retail package stores may sell alcoholic beverages:
(1) Only in retail containers in the original package for consumption off the premises; and
(2) Only at ordinary room temperature.
(E) It shall be unlawful for any person holding a license for a retail package store or any employee or agent thereof to:
(1) Knowingly sell, deliver or furnish any alcoholic beverages to any person under 21 years of age, an intoxicated person or any person who has been adjudged insane or mentally deficient;
(2) Employ any person under 21 years of age in the selling or handling of alcoholic beverages;
(3) Permit any person under 21 years of age to enter into, remain within or loiter about a licenses premises; or
(4) Permit any person to open a retail container or consume alcoholic beverages on the premises of a retail package store.
(`85 Code, § 2-6) Penalty, see § 111.99