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5/14/2019
51-0-19
AN ORDINANCE
Amending City Code 3-4-6 "Classification and License Fees" to Add
Class R-1 to the Liquor Code
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
SECTION 1: Title 3, Chapter 4, Section 6 "Classification and License
Fees" is amended for revisions to the Evanston City Code of 2012, as amended, and
the new revisions shall read as follows:
(R-1) CLASS R-1 licenses, which shall authorize the sale on the premises specified
of alcoholic liquor only for consumption upon the premises while food service is
available.
1. Such licenses shall be issued for use only in facilities with a permanently
constructed seating capacity of not more than 8,000 and not less than 7,000
persons, designed, and used for presentation of sporting events and other
activities, such as recreational activities and entertainment events, and
includes retail sales areas and retail food dispensing outlets, including, but not
limited to, restaurant areas to accommodate liquor by the drink as well as food
patronage, owned, operated and maintained by not for profit educational
institutions within the designated university areas.
2. Establishments holding Class R-1 licenses must have some food service
available when alcoholic liquor is being sold.
3. Alcohol may be served only on days on which there is a sporting event,
recreational activity, or other entertainment event which occurs in the
qualifying facility.
4. R-1 License holders shall only serve alcohol beginning one (1) hour prior to
the start of the event and must cease selling alcohol no later than thirty (30)
minutes prior to the conclusion of the event. For Men's basketball games at
Welsh Ryan Arena, alcohol sales shall end at or prior to the second half twelve
(12) minute TV timeout. For women's basketball games, alcohol sales shall end
prior to the start of the fourth (4th) quarter.
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5. In the general admission area, all alcoholic beverages must be served in
plastic containers.
6. No more than two (2) alcoholic beverages shall be sold to any person in any
single transaction.
7. The term "university area" shall be as defined in Section 3-4-1 of this Chapter.
The applicant for the renewal only of such licenses may elect to pay the amount
herein required semiannually or annually. Such election shall be made at the time
of application.
The annual fee for such license shall be six thousand dollars ($6,000.00).
The total fee required hereunder for renewal applicants electing to make
semiannual payments, payable according to the provisions of Section 3-4-7 of this
Chapter, shall be six thousand three hundred dollars ($6.300.00).
No more than zero (0) such license(s) shall be in force at any one (1) time.
SECTION 2: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 3: If any provision of this Ordinance 51-0-19 or application
thereof to any person or circumstance is held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such
invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this Ordinance that can be
given effect without the invalid application or provision, and each invalid application of
this Ordinance is severable.
SECTION 4: Ordinance 51-0-19 shall be in full force and effect after its
passage and approval.
SECTION 5: The findings and recitals contained herein are declared to
be prima facie evidence .of the law of the City and shall be received in evidence as
provided by the Illinois Compiled Statutes and the courts of the State of Illinois.
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Introduced: -Sune 16 12019 Approved:
Adopted: 2019 .���%� , 2019
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Attest:
Approved as to form:
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L. Masoncup, Corpora ion
Counsel
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