Bill Text: FL H0637 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Citrus County

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-05 - Ordered enrolled -HJ 1097 [H0637 Detail]

Download: Florida-2012-H0637-Introduced.html

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HB 637

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to Citrus County; amending chapter 84-
3	409, Laws of Florida, as amended; revising criteria
4	for special alcoholic beverage licenses for
5	restaurants within the county; providing an effective
6	date.
7
8	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
9
10	Section 1.  Section 1 of chapter 84-409, Laws of Florida,
11	as amended by chapter 86-391, Laws of Florida, is amended to
12	read:
13	Section 1.  Notwithstanding any Citrus County ordinance or
14	special law prescribing standards for special restaurant
15	alcoholic beverage licenses, or any general law limiting the
16	number of alcoholic beverage licenses in a county, the Division
17	of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco shall issue a special
18	alcoholic beverage license to any restaurant in Citrus County
19	which meets all of the following criteria:
20	(a)  Two thousand five hundred 2,500 square feet of service
21	area.
22	(b)  Equipment to serve 150 persons full-course meals at
23	tables. at one time
24	(c)  Fifty-one 51 percent of its gross revenue is from the
25	sale of food and nonalcoholic beverages.
26	(d)  Alcoholic beverage consumption is limited to table
27	service with meals.
28	(e)  no cocktail lounge or open bar on the premises.
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30	However, Any restaurant licensed under this section that
31	maintains a service area of 4,000 square feet or more of service
32	area may provide a cocktail lounge or open bar on the premises
33	with no limit on service, and alcoholic beverage consumption is
34	not limited to table service with meals. A restaurant licensed
35	under this section that maintains a service area of 2,500 square
36	feet or more, but less than 4,000 square feet, may provide a
37	cocktail lounge or open bar on the premises that serves up to 10
38	percent of the capacity of the restaurant, and alcoholic
39	beverage consumption is not limited to table service with meals.
40	Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.

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