ACT. The Illinois Liquor Control Act of 1934, as amended (235 ILCS 5/1-1 et seq.).
ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR. Any spirits, wine, beer, ale or other liquor, containing more than one-half of one per cent of alcohol by volume, which is capable of being consumed as a beverage by a human being.
LAW & GOVERNMENT/LIQUOR COMMITTEE MEMBER. An assistant Liquor Control Commissioner for McHenry County, Illinois.
BANQUET HALL FACILITIES. A business conducted on premises at which an activity is catering of private parties, either exclusively or in conjunction with a “restaurant” business; and, whereat there is service for consumption at tables of a full multiple course meal at a prearranged fixed unit price, or hors d’oeuvres, buffet or smorgasbord, and at which alcoholic liquor may be served or sold as incidental to such food services. Each of such private parties must be prearranged and under sponsorship of a particular person or organization.
BOWLING ALLEY. Every establishment or building, or part of an establishment or building, wherein the game of bowling, played with composition balls and ten pins, is played.
CLUB. A corporation organized under the laws of this State, not for pecuniary profit, solely for the promotion of some common object other than the sale or consumption of alcoholic liquors, kept, used and maintained by its members through the payment of annual dues, and owning, hiring or leasing a building or space in a building, of such extent and character as may be suitable and adequate for the reasonable and comfortable use and accommodation of its members and their guests and provided with suitable and adequate kitchen and dining room space and equipment and maintaining a sufficient number of servers and employees for cooking, preparing and servicing food and meals for its members and their guests; provided, that such a club files with the Commissioner at the time of its application for a license under this Ordinance that its affairs and management are conducted by a board of directors, executive committee, or similar body chosen by the directors, executive committee, or similar body chosen by the members at their annual meeting and that no member or any officer, agent or employee of the club is paid, or directly or indirectly receives, in the form of salary or other compensation, any profits from the distribution or sale of alcoholic liquor to the club or the members of the club or its guests introduced by members beyond the amount of such salary as may be fixed and voted at any annual meeting by the members or by its board of directors or other government body out of the general revenue of the club.
COMMISSION. The McHenry County Liquor Control Commission comprised of the Law & Government/Liquor Committee and the McHenry County Board Chairman.
COMMISSIONER. The McHenry County Liquor Control Commissioner.
CONVENIENCE STORE. Any public place kept, used, maintained, advertised and held out to the public as a place at which the primary purpose is to offer gasoline and/or limited groceries and sundries for sale, the retail sale of alcoholic liquors being incidental thereto. The area for display of alcoholic liquors shall be limited to ten percent (10%) of the retail floor display area in such an establishment.
HOTEL AND MOTEL. Every building or other structure kept, used, maintained, advertised and held out to the public to be a place where food is actually served and consumed and sleeping accommodations are offered for adequate pay to travelers and guests, whether transient, permanent or residential, in which ten (10) or more rooms are used for sleeping accommodations of such guests and having one or more public dining rooms where meals are served to such guests, such sleeping accommodations and dining rooms being conducted in the same building or building in connection therewith and such building or buildings, structure or structures, being provided with adequate and sanitary kitchen and dining room equipment and capacity.
PERSON. Any natural person, firm, partnership, association or corporation.
PREMISES. Any permanent physical structure or building from which alcoholic liquors are sold.
RESTAURANT. Any public place kept, used, maintained, advertised and held out to the public as a place where meals are served, and where meals are actually and regularly served, without sleeping accommodations, such space being provided with adequate and sanitary kitchen and dining room equipment and capacity and having employed therein a sufficient number and kind of employees to prepare, cook and serve suitable food for its guests.
RETAILER. A person who sells or offers for sale alcoholic liquor for use or consumption and not for resale in any form.
RETAIL SALE. A sale for use of consumption and not for resale in any form.
SALE. Any transfer, exchange, delivery or barter in any manner, or by any means whatsoever, including a transfer of alcoholic liquors by and through a transfer or negotiation of warehouse receipts or certificates, and includes and means all sales made by any person, whether principal, proprietor, agent, servant or employee. The term “sale” includes any license to an importing distributor’s license even if both licenses are held by the same person.
STATE COMMISSION. The Illinois Liquor Control Commission as created in 235 ILCS 5/3-1.
WINE. Any alcoholic beverage obtained by the fermentation of the natural contents of fruits, or vegetables, containing sugar, including such beverages when fortified by the addition of alcohol or spirits.
WINE-MAKER. A person engaged in the making of less than 50,000 gallons of wine annually.
(Ord. O-201406-12-020, § 2, passed 6-17-2014; Ord. 7468, passed 3-19-2019)