No alcoholic beverages shall be sold, served or delivered, nor shall any licensee suffer or permit the sale, service or delivery of any alcoholic beverage, directly or indirectly, or open for business any place so licensed, between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m., local prevailing time, any weekday or Sunday; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the proprietors of bona fide restaurants equipped for and actually engaged in the serving of meals, and who shall serve meals in a room entirely disconnected and separate from the bar or other room in which alcoholic beverages may be displayed, stored, mixed or dispensed, and who may be licensed under this chapter for the sale of alcoholic beverages, from conducting the restaurant business and from serving meals in the hours herein specified. All parts of licensed premises where alcoholic beverages shall be sold shall be cleared of all patrons between the hours of 3:15 a.m. and 7:00 a.m., prevailing time.
('74 Code, § 36-8) (Ord. passed 5-1-46; Am. Ord. passed 9-12-62; Am. Ord. passed 4-8-65)