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ORDINANCE No.
AN ORDINANCE A!IENDING SECTION 3-8 OP THE CODE
OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, IN ITS ENTIRETY,
RELATING TO THE HOURS OF SALE FOR ALCOHOLIC
BEVERAGES WITHIN THE CITY BY COMPLETELY
REVISING THE HOURS ALLOW+IED FOR SUCH SALE BY
VARIOUS CATEGORIES OF VENDORS AND ESTABLISHING
DEFINITIONS FOR SUCH VENDORS; CONTAINING A
REPEALER CLAUSE AND A SEVERABILITY PROVISION
AND CONTAINING AN EFFECTIVE DATE,
IT ORDAINED BY TIIE COMMISSION -Of -TM —CITY OF MIDI, FLORIDA:
Section 1. Section 3-8 of the Code of the City of Miami,
Florida, as amended, is hereby further amended by repealing the
in its entirety and substituting the following provisions;
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Section 3-8. Hours during which sales of alcoholic
beverages allowed; Sunday sales. Definitions:
(1) (a) For the purposes°f shallshavetion the meanings
e respectivelywords and phrases
respectively ascribed to them:
Bar: C.O.P. Any place devoted to the retailing
and drinking of malt, vinous, or other
alcoholic beverages, or any place where
any sign is exhibited or displayed indi-
cating that alcoholic beverages are obtain-
able for consumption on the premises.
Liquor Package Store: N.C.O.P. A vendor licensed
by the state to sell liquor as defined under
the laws of Florida in sealed containers for
consumption off the premises.
Beer and Wine Bar: C.O.P. A bar licensed by the
state to sell beer and wine as defined
under the laws of Florida by the drink
(consumption on the premises).
Liquor Bar: C.O.P. A bar licensed by ,the state to
sell liquor as defined under the laws of
Florida by the drink (consumption on the
premises).
Restaurant, Liquor, Beer & Wine: C.O.P. A vendor
of beer, wine and liquor as defined under the
laws of Florida whose license is issued by
the state in connection with the operation of
a restaurant and whose sale is by the drink
(consumption on the premises).
Hotel, Motel and Apartments: C.O.P. A vendor of
"beer, wine and liquor, as defined under the
laws of Florida whose license is issued by
the state in connection with the operation
of a hotel, motel or apartments, and whose
sale is by the drink (consumption on the
premises)
HON. MAYOR FERRE AND MEMERS OF THE itIA1I CITY COMMISSION
t regret that because of illness and death in my family, I was unable to
voice an opinion in this committee. I appreciate the opportunity however to be
heard at this time. Please hear me out.
Three years ago this month, a young vibrant 16 :ear old boy, lay on the
ground, the victim cf a drunk driver. His hands and legs and face, were caked
with blood and impregnated with little stones...like so much buckshot. His legs
and arms were open to the bare bones, and broken in many places. He grasped
for a thread of life. He is not alone, like so rnany others, his was an alcohol
related ailment...not his ownbut that of a man, who had just left a bar at
night, with just a little too much whiskey and the power of an automobile in
his hands, and controlled by the dulled sense of a drunk...and then St4ASH:...
a boy's body crushed but pulled back from death's door by skilled surgeons and
psychiatric treatment. Two years later, after 16 operations, including skin
grafts and hone grafts and heavy drug sedation, one leg festered badly and was
finally amputated. Not of his own doing, my handsome nephew is now mutilated
in body and spirit. The family is now faced with horrendous bills to salve the
boy's life. The drunk had minimal insurance. Why did this happen? How many
of you have come upon such a tragedy. I pray that At has not, but it could
happen! This subject goes like a dagger...to the heart of things that we all
hold precious our heilth, welfare and safety for ourselves and our children,
and those who come after us
The drunk finds solace and companionship in a bar or nite-club, with other
barflies, and the longer the establishment is open, the easier it is for the
drinker to lose track of timeand drinks perhaps more liquor than the bar-
keeper knows at the time/that the customer can safely hold...since a sobriety
test is not given to the customer. upon leaving the bar or nite club, the
drinkers are usually noisy, and boisterous, starting up their weapon on wheels,
with a noise that startles the neighborhood tax payers out of a sound sleep,
destroying the rest of those who must rise early to go to work.
The drinker is often victimized by burglars and heinous crimes committed
against him in the hours after midnight. This triggers the need for added --
public safety, thus placing an added drain on an already overburdened Police
Department 'i,'' PA 0a5
With all due respect to the whiskey and wine industry, alcoholism.,. is now
treated as a DISEASE! We now have several tax supported agencies, on all
levels, including the local Alcoholic Detoxification & Family Counseling Service
which works endless...countless,..heartbreak!shours in an attempt to rehabilitat
the chronic drinker..,who has caused injury to himself, his family and others
...a...�
There is in this community, Al -Anon, as a separate fellowship from Alcohol-
ics Anonymous, and also Ala -Teen, the off -shoot of Al -Anon for teen agers, who
must live with an alcoholic parent. The Ala teen is told that their mother or
father is as truly sick as a diabetic and that a they must deal with the symp-
toms of an illness. How many families have been shattered because of this
illness is an unknown factor. Judging by the huge numbers of Alcoholic Anony-
mous Organizations in almost every city in this country, including Miami, it
tells a very grim story. Kruschev, the Russian statesman, once declared at the
United Nations, while beating his shoe on the podium, that we would destroy
ourselves from within. Some of us are making a good stab in that direction.
Bizarre as it sounds, countless number of liquor customers, pay millions of
dollars to the liquor industry, to alter the customers' minds, increasing
the probability of creating a greater number of diseases among the social
drinkers, on the verge of becoming alcoholics. The proposed extended time
factor is a good start in that direction.
Self interest, livlihood, notions of what is equitable for the liquor est-
lishments, feeling that the other fellow is getting an advantage at your axpikit
expense...All this and more, is activated by such hearings....even as the tech-
nicians are calibrating the marginal profits, disregarding the bloodletting and
the bloodless statistical paraphernalia, resulting frori an additional alcoholic
beverage served in the first hour or two or third hour after midnight.
Let us not forget that, at this point in time, cur government is obliged to
spend untold millions of our tax dollars in an attempt to cure and curtail the
disease of alcoholism, which is a national disgrace...and provide benefits to
the physically disabled victims of drunks through Social Security, it is out-
rageous and an insult to our intellegence that we here in Miami, are even con-
sidering a resolution extending the hours when liquor can be sold.
It is no secret that we have allowed the liquor industry lobbyists both
hard sell and scft sell the misguided public, but we look to you, our elected
officials...of good concience, to strike down this proposed ordinance, prior
tc giving it credence with a first reading, as this committee's strength in its
proposal was not representative of this city. I am speaking for the many tax-
payers, who must have un-broken rest and freedom from a noisy neighborhood,
caused by tars and nite-clubs, but most of all I spekk for them maimed cripples:
and the silent"
ilent dead, who have no voice in such hearings. ,„ rr, ..�
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It is therefore respectfully requested that this 'nighty City Commission' of
the City Of Miami heed the voice of the people and cut back the hours instead
of lengthening hours for the sale of liquor...or that this question be placed
on a future ballot for the Miami residents to decide this issue by vote.
(once again).
Respectfully Submitted for the
record.
!rs. I. Ricky Caminiti
4245 S.W. 2nd Terrace
{;11`itJ'ii�ta ei : e; ertaivcr. to achieve, .._c; i€siCrorini� c ".ir ?, conit�3tit7. n and other
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r03 a.t ..clnuing timta to • D ;#.:�.:,Quf xi fza11hcctn i tu.et.," from the fact that
of a <n open until that hour ,c't the viorn'isig. In cur esteblishmunts we nova
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tea Vietlir e d F1arnc iei�; whit ; .= trane�;tl:y ti: r;3t.dr_�r tti;, bs tnoyor tc Uriet
ti att`itana i tie .city. As you'., t1t�td t�uir cb Srtiv� as a1+�nys• b can to bef'e '
pc ritlr r;tit; its inmeht ai`td t`4xttsli tag, :4—eir�� }x,riich ilth'"biOugtit' us 1 itbrneatideial
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r„�ttj i"�s' t '.'it f3v.aning afte atl,4nnti.ni our } P6r E 1uba f !bm Flirt t.uurf€�reinIn
find, t'4116 ,t c"L►''i..Lt- 6: _riianu t"LS",St " --6il u3 that they Qrtly tc�rirta dqusn to Mitthri
tz ''i th lii,, tits ridfi : tc3 L43ta1 'i'io i ii. 3u +, ,; 3ttt ,jay . fray en`t tt rtii3?L'C d rnrjc r
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v1 :t Lcttth1trt r. tit�rti 6sa:trl�z �shO is wo17. 'khtowt to thin commission,. .
atca',pzar • it.d the tarty- .t r d can 4i�ttt#et ,ta 'thie Foot. Thane aria many ath�er auoh
t;r�fl9!'''' but Fri; tht : stik t3. taf bxt3VCa t; t.is wi1.1 na t; : rt.ntion thom here tonight.
siting dig arise fs"iim fi , over, bhE ta,orld and tf',ony or you aittin
this com„mi a ion tinvice vie ,£psi ;otJr ra4i u-: ur rz s and know o4' the moral
ar :isti Cuslitius that to,a �;EaIntczit•► ir`i all Ou p :i i erf antes. Our "9iden-
�;tanni,:.�l`.tl..5.A." t'sea:oa nsi.oered' try the local critics, including the Miami
fcrtii r:, as the n patriotic an bust pa t3 anted or ell the floor shows
"r rvw tin tribute to ,'the 201. bi_r' hri;:�V nelc+:.^.ation r�r" tho United States. It
:��� i�'1{,kriit~�- tt�`tfei�. utirs�:;iiirirtial:;usurl directed, tC�Gl,�l�s,iL:,r choreographed and Featured
;� cf:Y` c 4; ;COASidtir 3d. �;;tbg;:rCIVIC LI ;IA haeti3:: and presented the 'show 68
w' o �t`a Lra Ag4 r:.cc n contributi Wn to the u� lebration of the E'iicentunnia1.
taraor Mtn dj'd �t hatior1 0 -iz. �ti: vi; g t tir;�oniala: sand certificate
" 01 .0 it;,y 'Count'Y.raiti�C.tl ti4'sV&7.'rCct f:llt t d
s<t" E� ii3': E:Lati�: ii� Cu a !011prOuiaitj tdl� xt t ".li:, tt�ta:1 to ilairlt't=airl the high standards
ti t i Rt .tt� ;ccsr,7s sid t it;s tei, ��. f✓ �.: wr lt� �,i Ursa. So what better incentive,, can
tOOrt°3t', thai't +:1i ~£:ot 2a ;'. x17ui i einn il`ir onii floors hawa dtf fi r%tr%t
in' of y:.,titther i „`a :: c r Ci iyt.' is t oce1 in: Mismi tht t we know of
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or ttP y other.' alt reaffirms
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pay eta,'.$et ', c r the ail by!. ttif3:' city c1: 1ntmoo.
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