This chapter has been enacted in accordance with a plan designed for the purposes,
among others, of promoting the health and general welfare of the community; to establish
reasonable and ascertainable standards for the regulation and control of the licensing
and sales of alcoholic beverages to protect and preserve schools and churches; to
give effect to land use and to preserve certain residential areas, with reasonable
considerations, among others, to the character of the areas and their peculiar suitability
for particular uses, the congestion in the roads and streets and with a general view
of promoting desirable living conditions and sustaining stability of neighborhoods
and property values; and to protect against the evils of concentration of the retail
outlets for distilled spirits in one family or to prevent undesirable persons from
engaging in or having any interest in alcoholic beverage licenses.
(a)
The purposes of this chapter are not advanced when alcoholic beverages are provided
to the general public under the guise that such alcoholic beverages are not being
sold but are being given away as part of a business operation or other activity and
unless a premises which provides alcoholic beverages to the general public is licensed
by the city for that particular purpose, the violation of practices which are regulated
this chapter and other applicable law, including without limitation, the serving of
alcoholic beverages to under age persons, the serving of alcoholic beverages to intoxicated
persons, the serving of alcoholic beverages at times other than those allowed, and
the consumption of alcoholic beverages at public places inside of the prescribed distances
from churches, schools, libraries and parks are more difficult to enforce.
