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ORDINANCE NO.405
An Ordinance Related to Regulations
And Licenses for Alcoholic Beverages;
Repealing Sections 630 and 635, Amending Sections 625.23 and 515.03.
The city council of the city of Medina ordains as follows:
SECTION I. Medina Code Sections 630 and 635 are hereby repealed.
SECTION II. Medina Code Sections 625.23 and 515.03 are hereby amended by deleting the
stricken material and adding the underlined material as follows:
Section 625.23. Conditions of License. Every license granted is subject to the provisions of
this ordinance, and state law and to the following conditions:
(a) every license shall be responsible for the conduct of his or her place of business and
shall maintain conditions of good order and sobriety therein;
(b) except for sales by clubs made to members in good standing who pay regular
monthly membership fees, no sale of any alcoholic beverage shall be made to
anyone on credit;
(c) any peace officer, health officer, or any properly designated officer or employee of
the City or the state, including representatives of the commissioner, shall have the
unqualified right to enter, inspect and search the licensed premises during
business hours without a warrant;
(d) no alcoholic beverage may be served or consumed outside of the compact and
contiguous space specified as the licensed premises, in the approved license
application;
(e) no person may sell or in any way procure for another an alcoholic beverage for the
use of an obviously intoxicated person;
(f) no licensee shall permit any minor to consume alcoholic beverages on the licensed
premises. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell alcoholic beverages to a
minor, except that a parent or guardian of a minor may give alcoholic beverages
to that person solely for consumption and solely in the household of the parent or
guardian; and
a violation of any term or condition of any other permit or license granted by the City
regarding the property upon which the licensed premises is located shall be
deemed to be a violation of the license granted under this ordinance.
(g)
(h) all licensed establishments shall have the license therefor posted in a conspicuous
place at all times.
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June 20, 2006
Section 515.03. Definitions. For the purposes of this ordinance, the following terms shall have
the meanings given to them.
Subd. 1. "Alcoholic Beverage" means any beverage containing more than one-half of one
percent alcohol by volume.
Subd. 2. "Amusement Contraption" means any contrivance, device, gadget, machine, or
structure designed to test the skill or strength of the user or to provide the user with any sort of
ride, lift, swing, or fall experience including, but not limited to, ball throwing contest devices,
pinball -type devices, animal ride devices, dunk tanks, ball and hammer devices, trampoline
devices and the like.
Subd. 3. "Area" means a specified place within a park.
Subd. 4. "Chief of Police" means the Medina chief of police or designee.
Subd. 5. "Controlled Substance" means any drug, substance or immediate precursor included in
Schedules I through V, of Minnesota Statutes, Section 152.02, as amended.
Subd. 6. "Deadly Weapon" means any device or instrument designed or intended to cause
bodily injury or death to humans or animals, including bows and arrows, slingshots, sand
clubs, metal knuckles, daggers, dirks, stilettos, switch -blade knives and similar instruments,
but not including firearms. The term also includes any device or instrument designed or
intended for use in the capture or trapping of animals.
Subd. 7. "Firearm" means any gun from which shot or a projectile is discharged by means of
explosive, gas or compressed air.
Subd. 8. "Fireworks" means any substance or combination of substances or article prepared for
the purpose of producing a visible or an audible effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration,
or detonation, and includes blank cartridges, toy cannons, and toy canes in which explosives
are used, the type of balloons which required fire underneath to propel them, fire -crackers,
torpedoes, skyrockets, Roman candles, daygo bombs, sparklers, or other fireworks of like
construction, and any fireworks containing any explosive substance and commonly used as
fireworks. The term "fireworks" shall not include toy pistols, toy guns, in which paper caps
containing 25 hundredths grains or less of explosive compound are used and toy pistol caps
which contain less than 20 hundredths grains of explosive mixture.
Subd. 9. "Guest" means any person physically accompanied within a park by a resident.
Subd. 10. "Intoxicating Liquor" means ethyl alcohol, distilled, fermented, spirituous, vinous,
and malt beverages containing more than 3.2 percent of alcohol by weight.
Subd. 11. "Malt Liquor" means any beer, ale or other beverage made from malt by fermentation
and containing not less than one-half of one percent alcohol by volume.
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Subd. 12. "Motorized Recreational Vehicle" means any self-propelled, off -the -road, or all -
terrain vehicle including, but not limited to, snowmobiles, mini -bikes, motorcycles, dune
buggies, or all -terrain cycles.
Subd. 13. " 3.2 Percent Malt Liquor" means malt liquor containing
not less than one-half of one percent alcohol by volume nor more than 3.2 percent alcohol by
weight.
Subd. 14. "Park" means any land or water area and all facilities thereon, owned and controlled
by Medina and used for park or recreational purposes.
Subd. 15. "Permit" means the written permission obtained from the Chief of Police to carry out
specified activities within a park or vehicular parking lot.
Subd. 16. "Pet" means any animal that is tamed and domesticated and kept as a companion.
Subd. 17. "Pollutant" means any solid, liquid or gaseous substance, which could cause
contamination of land or water, so as to create or cause a nuisance or render unclean, noxious,
or unpure or be actually or potentially harmful, detrimental or injurious to human health,
safety or welfare or the health and safety of wildlife or vegetation.
Subd. 18. "Resident" means any person who maintains or occupies a permanent or seasonal
home within Medina.
Subd. 19. "Wine" means sparkling and carbonated wine, wine made from condensed grape
must, wine made from agricultural products other than sound, ripe grapes, imitation wine,
compounds sold as wine, vermouth, cider, perry and sake, in each instance containing not less
than oewo one-half of one percent nor more than 24 percent alcohol by volume for non-
industrial use.
Section III. This ordinance shall take effect upon its adoption by the city council and publication
in the City's official newspaper.
Adopted by the Medina city council on the 20th day of Ju : , 2006.
B ce D. Workman, Mayor
ATTEST:
is/r
Chad M. Adams, City Administrator -Clerk
Published in the South Crow River News this 26`h day of June 2006.
Ordinance No. 405
June 20, 2006