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11/8/73
ORDINANCE NO
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 3-8 OF
THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA,
ENTITLED "HOURS DURING WHICH SALES
PROHIBITED; SUNDAY SALES" FOR THE PURPOSE
OF CHANGING THE HOURS OF SALE OF ALCOHOLIC
BEVERAGES,FOR BARS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY
OF MIAMI, FLORIDA:
Section 1. That Section 3-8 of the Code of
the City of Miami, entitled "Hours during which
sales prohibited; Sunday sales" is hereby amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 3-8 Hours during which sales
prohibited; Sunday sales.
(a) No distributor or vendor of
alcoholic beverages or any em-
ployee thereof, on the licensed
premises, shall sell, serve,
offer to sell, allow to be con-
sumed or deliver any alcoholic
beverages to any person on
weekdays or on Saturdays be-
tween 3:00 A.M. and 7:00 A.M.,
or on Sundays between 3:00 A.M.
and 1:00 P.M.
(b) No vendor licensed to sell
intoxicating beverages shall
sell, offer to sell, serve or
deliver any intoxicating bever-
ages by the package or sealed
container to any person on
weekdays between 8:00 P.M.
and 7:00 A.M. on the following
day, and on Sundays the sale,
serving, offering to sell,
allowing to be consumed or
delivering shall be prohibited;
provided, that beer, ale and
wine may be sold for con-
sumption off the premises
after 8•00 P.M. and until
1:00 A.1q. the following morn-
ing on weekdays and that only
beer and aCnay be sold be-
tween the hours of 1:00 P.M.
and 7:00 P.M. on Sundays.
(c) The above restrictions
upon the 7:00 P.M. Sunday
hours of closing and the sale
of alcoholic beverages on
Sunday beyond 7:00 P.M. shall
not apply to sales to patrons
by licensed hotels with fifty
or more guest rooms where the
barroom or any room where al-
coholic beverages are served
does not open upon any public
street or sidewalk, and by
licensed restaurants to
persons who are being served
food within the restaurant,
which hotels and restaurants
are duly licensed by the city
for the sale of alcoholic
beverages to be consumed on
the premises, and in which
hotels and restaurants the
sale of alcoholic beverages
is strictly incidental to
the main business of operating
the hotel or restaurant, and where
there are no illuminated signs
of any kind exhibited or dis-
played to the outside at hours
when other licensees are pro-
hibited from selling beverages
denoting that alcoholic bever-
ages are obtainable in such
hotel or restaurant, and which
restaurants shall maintain a
space of at least four thousand
square feet occupied and ex-
clusively devoted to the use
of seating customers at tables
and where chairs at such tables
within such space shall number
at least two hundred; provided
further, that nothing in this
section shall prevent the sale
of alcoholic beverages to
guests in hotels, as defined
herein, within their respective
rooms at any hour for consumption
on the premises; and provided
further, that such hotels and
restaurants shall not advertise
in any way that intoxicating
beverages are obtainable in
such hotels and restaurants
on Sunday.
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(d) Night clubs licensed by
the city shall be governed
by the restrictions herein-
above set forth; except,that
no night club or owner,
operator or employee thereof
shall admit customers to its
premises, nor sell, serve,
offter to sell, allow to
be consumed or deliver, any
alcoholic beverages to any
person between the hours
of 5:00 A.M. and 11:00 A.M.
on weekdays and between the
hours of 5:00 A.M. and 5:00
P.M. on Sundays. Night clubs
may remain open one-half hour
after the sale and consumption
of alcoholic beverages is pro-
hibited herein. The sale of
alcoholic beverages by night
clubs, restaurants and hotels,
by either the package or sealed
container, is prohibited during
the,.hours in which the sale is
prohibited by other licensees.
(e) Incorporated clubs
licensed by the city and
licensed under the provisions
of subsection (11), section
561.34 of the Florida Statutes,
or licensed or defined under
any other provisions of the
state beverage law, shall be
governed by the restrictions
hereinabove set forth; ex-
cept, that no incorporated
club officer or employee
thereof shall admit customers
to its premises, nor sell,
serve, offer to sell, allow
to be consumed or deliver
any alcoholic beverages to
any person between the hours
of 3:00 A.M. and 11:00 A .M.
on weekdays and between the
hours of 4:00 A.M. and 1:00
P.M. on Sundays. The sale
of alcoholic beverages by
incorporated clubs, by either
package or sealed container,
is prohibited during the
hours that the sale is pro-
hibited by other licensees.
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(f) The hours of closing set
forth above shall not apply to
New Year's Eve, nor shall these
restrictions apply to private
residences, unless licensed to
serve or to sell alcoholic bev-
erages. Private clubs shall not,
however, be excepted from these
restrictions. (Code 1957, § 4-7;
Ord. No. 6529, § 1; Ord. No. 6707,
§ § 1,2; Ord. No. 7072, § 1; Ord.
No. 7207, § 1; Ord. No. 7372, § 1.)
Section 2. All ordinances, code sections or parts
thereof in conflict herewith, insofar as they are in con-
flict, are hereby repealed.
Section 3. If any section, sentence, clause, phrase
or word of this ordinance is for any reason held or de-
clared to be unconstitutional, inoperative or void, such
holding or invalidity shall not affect the remaining
portions of this ordinance, and it shall be construed
to have been the intent of The Commission of the City
of Miami to pass this ordinance without such unconsti-
tutional, invalid, or inoperative part therein, and the
remainder of this ordinance, after the exclusion of such
part or parts shall be deemed and held to be valid as if
such parts had not been included therein.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY TITLE ONLY this
day of ,1973.
Attest;
City Clerk
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M A Y O R
PREPARED AND APPROVED BY:
John S. Lloyd
Assistant Director of Law
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS:
Alan H. Rothstein
City Attorney