(A) No license shall be issued for the sale at retail of any alcoholic liquor within 100 feet of any church, school other than an institution of higher learning, hospital, home for aged or indigent persons or for veterans, their spouses, or children, or any military or naval station, provided that this prohibition shall not apply to hotels offering restaurant service, regularly organized clubs, or to restaurants, food shops, or other places where sale of alcoholic liquors is not the principal business carried on if the place of business so excepted is not located in a municipality of more than 500,000 persons, unless required by local ordinance; nor to the renewal of a license for the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor on premises within 100 feet of any church or school where the church or school has been established within that 100 feet since the issuance of the original license. In the case of a church, the distance of 100 feet shall be measured to the nearest part of any building used for worship services or educational programs and not to property boundaries.
(B) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the issuance of a license to a church or private school to sell at retail alcoholic liquor if any sales are limited to periods when groups are assembled on the premises solely for the promotion of some common object other than the sale or consumption of alcoholic liquors.
(C) No person shall sell or engage in business as a retailer of any alcoholic liquor within 100 feet of any municipal building used or occupied as a city hall or by a city fire department.
(D) American Legion Post No. 436 is allowed to sell and/or deliver alcoholic liquor at the premises located at 10365 Niemanville Trail and in the building at that location occupied by them under a lease with the city, providing American Legion Post No. 436 obtains all proper and necessary applications and permits to do so from all local, state and federal government authorities.
(1983 Code, § 3-43) (Ord. 2725, passed 9-21-1995; Am. Ord. 3212, passed 3-18-2008) Penalty, see § 10.99