(A) License fee; periods of payment.
(1) Such person, firm, or corporation applying for and holding an alcoholic liquor license shall pay for such license at the rate of $350 per year, payable in advance; or said license fee may be payable in semiannual installments in advance at the rate of $350 for such period.
(2) Such person, firm, partnership, or corporation applying for and holding a seven-day alcoholic liquor license shall pay for such license at the rate of $450 per year, payable in advance; or said license fee may be payable in semi-annual installments in advance at the rate of $450 for such period.
(3) Such corporation applying for and holding a club alcoholic liquor license, shall pay for the license at the rate of $50 per year, payable in advance; or payable in semiannual installments in advance at the rate of $50 per year; and provided further, that the holder of such club alcoholic liquor license or an affiliated or parent corporation or club may obtain a temporary license for the dispensing of alcoholic liquors for a period not to exceed 24 hours, for any function held in the same building as that in which the club has its headquarters and bar, upon the payment to the city or its Liquor Control Commissioner, for such temporary license, the sum of $2 to be paid in advance.
(4) Such organization applying for and holding a temporary alcoholic liquor permit shall pay for the permit at the rate of $10 per day, payable in advance.
(5) All such licenses herein provided for, unless expiring by their terms at a sooner date, shall expire on April 30 in the fiscal municipal year in which the license is granted.
(1978 Code, § 5.04.040)
(B) License; bond required. Every person applying for a license under the provisions of this chapter shall, before obtaining such license, enter into a bond with good and sufficient security, to be approved by the Mayor as Local Liquor Control Commissioner, in the penal sum of $1,000, and such bond shall be in substantially the following form.
“KNOWN ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That we of the County of Washington, and State of Illinois, are held and firmly bound unto the he people of the State of Illinois, in the penal sum of...............Dollars, lawful money of the United States, for the payment of which well and truly to be made, we, and each of us, do hereby bind ourselves, our heirs, executor, and administrators, jointly, severally, and firmly. “Witness our hands and seals this ................ day of.......A.D. 20.... |
“The condition of the above obligation is such, that, whereas, the above bounden .......... has obtained a license to keep a...........in which to sell or deal in alcoholic liquors, at.......in the City of Nashville, in the County of Washington and State of Illinois from the .......... day of.......A.D. 20........ until the day of ......A.D. 20. “NOW, if the said................................... shall sell and truly pay all damages to any person or persons, which may be inflicted upon them either in person or property, or means of support, by reason of said..........selling or giving away alcoholic liquors, and shall well and truly observe all laws of the State of Illinois, and all Ordinances of the City of Nashville not in conflict therewith concerning the sale of alcoholic liquors, then this obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and effect. “Taken and approved by me this day of ..... A.D. 20. “Mayor of the City of Nashville, and as Local Liquor Control Commissioner”. |
(1978 Code, § 5.04.050)
(C) Who shall not receive a license. No person or persons shall receive a license under the provisions of this chapter unless he, she, or they are citizens of the United States and of good moral character; nor shall any person, firm, partnership, or corporation, as aforesaid, obtain a license under the provisions of this chapter without first stating the location of such place of business and furnishing satisfactory proof of legal qualifications and requirements under the laws of the United States and of the state relative thereto.
(1978 Code, § 5.04.060)
(D) License; display required. Every licensee shall cause his or her license or licenses to be framed and hung in plain view in a conspicuous place on the licensed premises.
(1978 Code, § 5.04.070)
(E) License; renewal.
(1) The owner or owners of a license to keep a place where such alcoholic liquor is sold or offered for sale shall have and be given the right to a renewal at the same or different place of business, in compliance with the laws of the United States and the state; and upon compliance with the provisions of this chapter and all other ordinances now in force in this city, or which may hereafter be passed, governing the licensing of places where such alcoholic liquor is sold or given away.
(2) The privilege of renewal provided by this section shall apply so long as the license in each case have been kept in force, continuously and uninterruptedly, in the name of the licensee.
(3) No license to keep a place where such liquor is sold or given away shall be hereafter issued to a firm except to the individual members of the firm; provided, however, that such person or persons shall duly qualify by complying with all the laws of the United States and of the state; and the laws and ordinances in force at the time in this city; and provided further, that nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to deny or refuse to grant a new license, to conduct a place where liquor is sold, as provided in this chapter, to the owner, tenant, or lessee of any premises, on the January 10, 1974, lawfully occupied and used as and for a place where such alcoholic liquor is sold hereunder.
(1978 Code, § 5.04.080)
(Ord. 447, passed - -1974; Ord. 467, passed - -1975; Ord. 599A, passed - -1985; Ord. 2015-7, passed 9-3-2015)