Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms, as used in this chapter, shall be construed according to the definitions given in this section:
ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR: Includes alcohol, spirits, wine and beer, and every liquid or solid, patented or not, containing alcohol, spirits, wine or beer, and capable of being consumed as a beverage by a human being.
APPLICANT: A person/persons applying for a retail liquor dealer license.
BAR AREA: That area specified by the liquor commissioner where alcoholic liquor is predominately served at a bar with or without stools or at nearby tables and segregated in some manner from the remaining portions of an establishment license C, E or F.
BEER: A beverage obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of an infusion or concoction of barley or other grain, malt and hops in water and includes, among other things, beer, ale, stout, lager beer, porter and the like.
BEER AND WINE ESTABLISHMENT: Any public place kept, used maintained and advertised and where meals are actually and regularly served in accordance with either a general or specialized menu, without sleeping accommodations, such places being provided with adequate and sanitary kitchen and dining room equipment and having employed therein a sufficient number and kind of employees to prepare, cook and serve suitable food for its patrons. Seating capacity required hereunder shall not include patron seating in basement or subgrade space. The area of the main dining room or dining rooms shall provide a minimum of ten (10) square feet per customer. Without exception, the gross receipts for the beer and wine establishment must reflect, based on the books and records for each preceding federal tax year, at least seventy five percent (75%) from the sale of food and beverage, excluding beer and wine, and no more than twenty five percent (25%) of said gross receipts shall be from the sale of beer and wine. A "beer and wine establishment" shall have no bar for the seating or direct use of patrons. All serving of food and beverage shall be at tables with adequate seating as provided in this definition, and beer and wine shall be served only in conjunction with the purchase (at normal, nonreduced prices) and consumption of food; provided, however, that this prohibition shall not apply to carryout or delivery of food only and nonalcoholic beverages.
CLUB: A corporation organized under the laws of the 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 providing dining room space and equipment and maintaining a sufficient number of servants and employees for cooking, preparing and serving food and meals for its members and their guests; provided, that such club files with the president at the time of its application for a license under this chapter, two (2) copies of a list of names and residences of its members, and similarly files within ten (10) days of the election of any additional member his name and residence; and, provided further, that its affairs and managements are conducted by a board of 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 a 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 governing body out of the general revenue of the club.
HOTEL: 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 twenty five (25) or more rooms are used for the 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 buildings in connection therewith and such building or buildings, structure or structures being provided with adequate and sanitary kitchen and dining room equipment and capacity.
INFLUENCE: The effect of something on a person, thing or event.
LIQUOR COMMISSIONER: Mayor of the village of Waterman.
RESTAURANT: Any public place kept, used, maintained, advertised, and where meals are actually and regularly served in accordance with a general menu, without sleeping accommodations, such space being provided with adequate and sanitary kitchen and dining room equipment and seating capacity for forty (40) patrons and having employed therein a sufficient number and kind of employees to prepare, cook and serve suitable food for its patrons. Seating capacity required hereunder shall not include patron seating in a basement or subgrade space. The area of the main dining room or dining rooms shall provide a minimum of ten (10) square feet per customer. Parking area shall be provided in conformance with the zoning ordinance of the village 3 .
RETAIL LIQUOR DEALER LICENSE HOLDER: Any applicant who has been granted a retail liquor dealer license.
RETAIL SALE: The sale for use or consumption and not for resale.
UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Influenced by the use of a chemical substance, especially alcohol.
WINE: Any alcoholic beverage obtained by fermentation of the natural contents of fruits or vegetables containing sugar, including such beverages when fortified by the addition of alcohol. (1999 Code § 3.01; amd. Ord. 2002-04, 4-9-2002; 2005 Code)
Notes
| 1 | 1. 720 ILCS 550/1 et seq. |
| 2 | 2. 720 ILCS 570/1 et seq. |
| 3 | 3. See title 9, chapter 12 of this code. |