HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - MC-87-396 - 04/01/1987 - Ch 4 no alcoholic beverage license within 100 ft oORDINANCE NO. MC-87-396
AN ORDINANCE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
MCHENRY, MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 4-15 of the Municipal Code, City
of McHenry, Illinois, be and the same is hereby amended
to read as follows:
"Section 4-15. No license shall be issued for the
sale at retail of any alcoholic liquor within 100
feet of any church, school other than an institution
of higher learning, hospital, home for aged or
indigent persons or for veterans, their spouses or
children or any military or naval station, provided,
that this prohibition shall not apply to hotels
offering restaurant service, regularly organized
clubs, or to restaurants, food shops or other places
where sale of alcoholic liquors is not the principal
business carried on if such place of business so
exempted is not located in a municipality of more
than 500,000 persons, unless required by local
ordinance; nor to the renewal of a license for the
sale at retail of alcoholic liquor in premises
within 100 feet of any church or school where such
church or school has been established within such
100 feet since the issuance of the original license.
In the case of a church, the distance of 100 feet
shall be measured to the nearest part of any
building used for worship services or educational
programs and not to property boundaries.
Nothing in this Section shall prohibit the
issuance of a license to a church or private school
to sell at retail alcoholic liquor if any such sales
are limited to periods when groups are assembled on
the premises solely for the promotion of some common
object other than the sale or consumption of
alcoholic liquors."
SECTION 2. Any person, firm or corporation
violating any provision of this ordinance shall be fined
not less than Twenty Five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than
Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each offense committed
on each day during, or on which, a violation occurs or
continues.
SECTION 3. All ordinances, or parts thereof, in
conflict with the terms and provisions hereof, be and the
same are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall be published in
pamphletform b and under the authority of the corporate
authorities of by
City of McHenry, Illinois.
SECTION 5. This ordinance shall be in full force
and effect from and after its passage, approval and
publication in pamphlet form, as provided by law.
PASSED this 1st day of April , 1987.
AYES: Bolger, Lieder, McClatchey, Nolan, Serritel la, Smith, Snell. Teta
NAYS: None
ABSTAINED: None
ABSENT: None
NOT VOTING: None
APPROVED this 1st day of Apri 1
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK