Beverages, alcoholic liquor or spirits, beer or wine covered by this chapter shall be sold only during the following hours.
(A) For Class A, B, C and P license holders:
(1) Monday through Thursday: from 6:00 a.m. each day until 12:00 midnight that same day, provided however when New Year’s Eve falls on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, the licensee may sell until 2:00 a.m the following day;
(2) Friday and Saturday: From 6:00 a.m. each day until 2:00 a.m. the following day; and
(3)
6:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. on Sundays for licensees holding a Class S or SP license. On Super Bowl Sunday, the holder of Class S or SP license may sell between the hours of 6:00 a.m. until one hour past the end of the football game, or 10:00 p.m., whichever is later. The holder of an S or SP license shall not be entitled to a TX license.
(B) No license holder, except holders of an S or SP license as provided above, may sell alcoholic liquor or spirits, beer or wine between 2:00 a.m. Sunday and 12:00 midnight Sunday; provided, however, if New Year’s Eve falls on a Sunday, any licensee may sell alcoholic liquor or spirits, beer or wine on such day between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m the following day (Monday).
(C) All premises on which alcoholic liquor, beer or wine is sold, must be vacated by the public within 30 minutes of the time specified in this section for the cessation of the selling of alcoholic liquors. All alcoholic liquor, beer or wine must be removed and not made available for use by persons remaining on the premises past 30 minutes of the time specified for the cessation of the selling of alcoholic liquors.
(D) Any licensee engaged in other business activities on the premises who shall be open for business during any time that the sale of alcoholic liquors, spirits, beer or wine is prohibited, must keep all alcoholic liquor, spirits, beer or wine in a physically separated area of the premises and shall keep such an area enclosed to the public during the hours that the sale of liquor is prohibited.
(E) Physical separation shall meet the following standards.
(1) A permanent partition at least seven feet high constructed of material strong enough to restrain persons from illegal entry into the liquor sales area, or an enclosed display case accessible only to the licensee and at least five feet distant from the nearest point of access by the public.
(2) A barrier of all entrances and exists to a liquor sales area. Said barrier must be constructed of a material which will prevent access by body or reach into the liquor sales area during the hours that liquor may not be sold.
(3) A single separate checkout counter for the sole purpose of checking liquor or where one cash register is to serve a dual purpose the configuration situated in such a manner as not to force patrons purchasing goods other than liquor into the liquor sales area.
(1975 Code, § 22-129) (Ord. 10-20-2015, passed 10-20-2015; Ord. 2020-01-21, passed 1-21-2020)
Penalty, see § 111.99