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� ORDINANCE N0. 7315
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, REPEALING
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SECTIONS 8, 14, 15 and 16 OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 3745 (SECTIONS
718 724, 725 and 726 OF THE REVISED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF
JEFFERSON 1956) RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF INTOXICATING
LIQUOR LI6ENSES, AND ENACTING A NEW SECTION 8, 14, 15 and 16
OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 3745 (ALSO TO BE KNOWN AS SECTIONS 718, 724
725 and 726 OF THE REVISED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON,
1956) RELATING "TO THE SAME SUBJECT
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON,
MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Sections 8, 14, 15 and 16 of Ordinance
Number 3745 (also known as Sections 718, 724, 725 and 726 of
the Revised Ordinances of the City of Jefferson, Missouri, 1956),
be, and the same are hereby repealed.
Section 2. There are hereby enacted four new provisions
to be known as Sections 8, 14, 15 and 16 of Ordinance Number
3745, and also Sections 718, 724, 725 and 726 of the Revised
Ordinances of the City of Jefferson, 1956, regulating the
issuance of intoxicating liquor licenses, which shall read in
words and figures as follows:
"ORDINANCE NO. 3745
Section 8. Bond required. - - Before any license shall
be issued, the applicant therefor shall apply in writing to
the city collector, giving the location of the place of
business, the names of all parties interested in the business
to be operated under said license, except in the case of a
corporation, the name of the president, secretary and manager
only need be given, and shall execute and file with the cit
collector a bond in the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000T
with good and sufficient sureties, such bond to be approved by
the board of liquor control, conditioned that the person or
persons obtaining such license shall keep at all times an orderly
house in conformity with this ordinance, and that he or they
will not sell, give away, or otherwise dispose of or suffer
the same to be done, about his or their premises, any intoxicatin
liquor in any quantity to any minor, or on Sunday to anyone,
or to an habitual drunkard, and conditioned that he or they
will not violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, and
that he or they will pay all taxes and license fees provided
for herein, together with all fines and penalties which may be
adjudged against him or them under the provisions of this
ordinance.
Section 14. Adjoining property owners must give consent.
No license* as'required by this ordinance for the sale of in-
toxicating liquor for consumption on the premises where sold
shall be issued until the applicant or applicants therefor
shall file with the city collector a statement signed by a
majority of the resident property owners owning real property
in the block in which said liquor business is to be located.
waiving any objection to the establishment of the business for
which such license is sought. For the purpose of this ordinance,
� . the word 'block' shall be construed to mean a square block as
l ��. platted in the plat of Jefferson City.
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All applications for licenses provided for in this ordinance
and all petitions so filed with said applications shall be
by the City Collector referred to a board to be known as the
board of liquor control, which board shall be composed of the
pemons holding the office of mayor, city attorney and city
engineer, respectively, and the collector shall issue no such
license without the written approval of a majority of said
board of liquor control. It shall be the duty of said board of
liquor control to determine whether or not the application for
license complies with the provisions of this ordinance relative
to licenses to be paid, distance from churches, school houses,
play grounds, public parks, and until said application is approve
in writing by said board, of liquor control, the collector shall
have no authority to issue such licenses: Provided, however,
that any application for a license whose application may be
acted upon adversely by the board of liquor control, or any
other citizen who may deem the board's finding improper, may,
within ten days after such action by the board of liquor control,
file a petition with the city council appealing from the action
of the said board of liquor control, and the council shall have
final authority in said matter, and shall have the right to
reverse as it deems proper, the action of the board of liquor
control. On matters appealed to the council from the board of
liquor control the mayor shall have no right to vote.
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Section 15. Licenses to contain what. - - All licenses
shall be issued by the city collector of the City of Jefferson,
upon the proper forms and each license shall state specifically
whether the license is for a distiller, brewer, wholesaler,
distributor, and in the case of a retailer's license, shall
state the alcoholic content of the intoxicating liquor to be
sold under said license, and whether said license is issued
authorizing the sale of intoxicating liquor or consumption on
the premises, or authorizing the sale, only in the original
package, not for consumption on the premises, or whether said
license issued is for both, the sale in the original package and
for consumption on the premises where sold.
Section 16. City collector shall keep records. - - The
city collector shall keep a complete record of all licenses
issued, the date when issued, and of all license fees collected
by reason of the issuance of said licenses , shall transmit all
license taxes collected by reason of this ordinance to the city
treasurer within twenty-four (24) hours after the same have
been collected, and report to the council at the first regular
meeting of each month all license fees collected, by whom paid
and to whom said licenses have been issued, and the city collector
shall also report monthly to the city council a list of all
persons, firms and corporations who have been licensed under the
provisions of this ordinance, and who have failed or neglected
to renew such license at its expiration, and shall deliver a copy
of such report to the marshal of the City of Jefferson; and it is
hereby made the duty of the marshal of the City of Jefferson to
investigate such person, firm or corporation whose license has
not been renewed, or any other person, firm or corporation who
has been reported to him asiselling intoxicating liquor as
defined in the provisions of this ordinance without first obtainin
a license as provided herein, and if such person, firm or
corporation is selling intoxicating liquor as defined herein, it
shall be the duty of said marshal to arrest such person, firm
or official of any such corporation and report such arrest to
the city attorney for proper disposition."
Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and approval.
• Passed: December 3, 1962 Approved: December 4, 1962
resident o the nc Mayor
Attest : ,
y Clerk
HAROLD B. BAKER, Jr.