For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning. These definitions are in addition to the definitions contained in M.S. § 340A.101, as it may be amended from time to time.
APPLICANT. Any person making an application for a license under this subchapter.
APPLICATION. A form with blanks or spaces thereon, to be filled in and completed by the applicant as his or her request for a license, furnished by the city and uniformly required as a prerequisite to the consideration of the issuance of a license for a business.
CHURCH. A building which is principally used as a place where persons of the same faith regularly assemble for the public worship of God.
CITY. The City of Jenkins.
CLUB. Any corporation duly organized under the laws of this state for civic, fraternal, social, or business purposes, or for intellectual improvement or for the promotion of sports, or a congressionally chartered veterans organization, which shall have more than 50 members, and shall, for more than a year, have owned, hired, or leased a building or space in a building of such extent and character as may be suitable and adequate for the reasonable and comfortable accommodation of its members, and whose affairs and management are conducted by a board of directors, executive committee, or other similar body chosen by the members at a meeting held for that purpose, none of whose members, officers, agents, or employees are paid directly or indirectly any compensations by way of profit for the distribution or sale of beverages to the members of the CLUB, or to its guests, beyond the amount of such reasonable salary or wages as may be fixed and voted each year by the members or other governing body.
COUNCIL. The City Council of the City of Jenkins.
EXCLUSIVE LIQUOR STORE. Shall be defined by M.S. § 340A.412, Subd. 14, as the same may be amended from time to time.
FRATERNAL CLUB. A club which serves only members and their guests and which uses any profits derived from liquor sales principally for sponsoring activities beneficial to the community and not for the profit of any individual and which has been in existence for 15 years or more, or to congressionally chartered veterans organization which has been in existence for five years. Such club, either of which in order to be eligible, must be incorporated to come within this definition.
HOTEL. An establishment, including a motel, having a resident proprietor or manager, where, in consideration of payment therefor, food and lodging are regularly furnished to transients, and which contains not less than ten guest rooms with bedding and other suitable and necessary furnishings in each room, and which is provided with a suitable lobby, desk, and office for the registration of its guests at the main entrance and on the ground floor, which employs an adequate staff to provide suitable and usual service, and which maintains under the same management and control as the rest of the establishment and has an integral part thereof a dining room with appropriate facilities for seating not less than 30 guests at one time, where the general public is, in consideration of payment therefor, served with meals at tables.
INTOXICATING LIQUOR and LIQUOR. Ethyl alcohol and distilled, fermented, spirituous, vinous, and malt beverages containing in excess of 3.2% of alcohol by weight.
LICENSE. A document, issued by the city, to an applicant, permitting him or her to carry on and transact the business stated therein.
LICENSEE. An applicant who, pursuant to his or her approved application, holds a valid, current, unexpired license, which has neither been revoked nor suspended (during the period of such suspension), from the city of carrying on the business stated therein.
LICENSE FEE. The money paid to the city pursuant to an application and prior to issuance of a license to transact and carry on the business stated therein.
MANUFACTURER. Every person (except an on-sale licensee under this subchapter) who, by any process of manufacture, fermenting, brewing, distilling, refining, rectifying, blending, or by the combination of different materials, prepares or produces liquors, wine, or beer for sale.
OFF-SALE. The retail sale of beer or liquor in original packages for consumption off or away from the premises where sold.
ON-SALE. The retail sale of beer, wine, or liquor by the glass or by the drink, for consumption on the premises where sold only.
RESTAURANT. An establishment, other than a hotel, under the control of a single proprietor or manager, having appropriate facilities for the serving of meals, and where, in consideration of payment therefor, meals are regularly served at tables to the general public, which employs an adequate staff to provide the usual and suitable service to its guests which shall have seating facilities for seating not less than 30 guests at one time, and whose gross receipts are at least 60% attributable to the sale of food from the RESTAURANT.
THREE-POINT-TWO PERCENT MALT LIQUOR. Hereinafter referred to as BEER, malt liquor containing not less than 0.5% alcohol by volume or more than 3.2% of alcohol by weight.
VIOLATION. Lawlessness; illicitness; breach of law, violation of law, infraction of the law.
WHOLESALER. Any person engaged in the business of selling liquor, wine, or beer to retail dealers.
WINE. Wine not exceeding 14% alcohol by volume.
(Ord. 70, passed 2-12-2007)