This chapter shall be liberally construed to the end that the
health, safety, and welfare of the inhabitants of the Village shall
be protected and temperance in the consumption of alcoholic liquors
shall be featured and promoted by sound and careful control and regulation
of the sale of alcoholic liquors.
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall
apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different
meaning:
The product of distillation of any fermented liquid, whether
rectified or diluted, whatever may be the origin thereof, and includes
synthetic ethyl alcohol. It does not include denatured alcohol or
wood alcohol.
Includes alcohol, spirits, wine and beer, and every liquid
or solid, patented or not, containing alcohol, spirits, wine or beer,
and capable of being consumed as a beverage by a human being.
A beverage obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of an infusion
or concoction of barley, or other grain, malt, and hops in water,
and includes, among other things, beer, ale, stout, lager beer, porter
and the like.
A prearranged private party, function, or event for a specific
social or business occasion, either by invitation or reservation and
not open to the general public, where the guests in attendance are
served in a room or rooms designated and used exclusively for the
private party, function, or event.
Any public place kept, used, maintained, advertised and held
out to the public as a place where meals are served, and where meals
are actually and regularly served, without sleeping accommodations,
such space being provided with adequate and sanitary kitchen and dining
room equipment and capacity and having employed therein a sufficient
number and kind of employees to prepare, cook and serve suitable food
for its guests.
A person who sells, or offers for sale, alcoholic liquor
for use or consumption and not for resale in any form.
Any transfer, exchange or barter in any manner, or by any
means whatsoever, including the transfer of alcoholic liquors by and
through the transfer or negotiation of warehouse receipts or certificates,
and includes and means all sales made by any person, whether principal,
proprietor, agent, servant or employee. The term "sale" includes any
transfer of alcoholic liquor from a foreign importer's license to
an importing distributor's license even if both licenses are held
by the same person.
Sales for use or consumption and not for resale in any form.
An event conducted by an educational, fraternal, political,
civic, religious or nonprofit organization.
Any beverage which contains alcohol obtained by distillation,
mixed with water or other substance in solution, and includes brandy,
rum, whiskey, gin, or other spirituous liquors, and such liquors when
rectified, blended or otherwise mixed with alcohol or other substances.
Any alcoholic beverage obtained by the fermentation of the
natural contents of fruits, or vegetables, containing sugar, including
such beverages when fortified by the addition of alcohol or spirits,
as above defined.
A.
The Village President is designated as the Coal City Liquor Control
Commissioner and is charged with the administration of the applicable
provisions of the Illinois Liquor Control Act, ILCS Ch. 235, Act 5,
§ 1-1 et seq., and the provisions of this chapter, as well
as such other ordinances and resolutions relating to alcoholic liquor
as may be enacted from time to time by the Village.
B.
In addition to any other powers and duties as established by law,
the Liquor Control Commissioner shall have all of the following powers
and duties with respect to local liquor licenses:
(1)
To grant and/or suspend for not more than 30 days or revoke for cause
all local licenses issued to persons for premises within his or her
jurisdiction;
(2)
To enter or to authorize any law enforcing officer to enter at any
time upon any premises licensed hereunder to determine whether any
of the provisions of this chapter or any rules or regulations adopted
by him or her or by the State Commission have been or are being violated,
and at such time to examine said premises of said licensee in connection
therewith;
(3)
To notify the Secretary of State where a club incorporated under
the General Not for Profit Corporation Act of 1986[1] or a foreign corporation functioning as a club in this
state under a certificate of authority issued under that Act has violated
this chapter by selling or offering for sale at retail alcoholic liquors
without a retailer's license;
[1]
Editor's Note: See 805 ILCS 105/101.01 et seq.
(4)
To receive complaint from any citizen within his or her jurisdiction
that any of the provisions of this chapter, or any rules or regulations
adopted pursuant hereto, have been or are being violated and to act
upon such complaints in the manner hereinafter provided;
(5)
To receive local license fees and pay the same forthwith to the Village
Treasurer as the case may be;
(6)
To levy fines for violations of this chapter.
