Dram Shop Defined

A dram shop is a place where spirituous, vinous or malt liquors are retailed by less quantity than one gallon, and intoxicating liquors shall be deemed to include all such liquors within the meaning of this act.

R. S., ch. 43. sec. 1.

Selling Liquor Without License

It is unlawful to sell intoxicating liquors in any less quantity than one gallon without a license. Penalty: fine of from $20 to $100, or imprisonment in the county jail, from 10 to 20 days, or both, in the discretion of the court.

Sec. 2.

Selling Or Giving Liquor To Minors

Whoever sells or gives intoxicating liquor to any minor without the written order of his parent, guardian or family physician shall be fined not less than $20 nor more than $100, or imprisoned in the county jail not less than 10 nor more than 30 days, or both.

Sec. 6.

Persons Who Buy For Minors

Persons who buy for minors or in any manner procure or aid in procuring intoxicating liquors for any minor without the written order of such minor's parents shall be fined as in the above section.

Sec. 61/2.

Nuisances

All places where intoxicating liquors are sold in violation of this act shall be held to be common nuisances, and all rooms, eating houses, coffee houses, etc., where intoxicating liquors are sold in violation of this act shall be deemed public nuisances. Whoever shall keep such a place shall be fined not less than $50 and not more than $100 and confined in the county jail not less than 20 nor more than 50 days, and it shall be a part of the judgment that the place so kept shall be closed until the keeper shall give bond in the sum of $1,000, conditioned that he will not sell intoxicating liquors contrary to the laws of this state, and will pay all fines, costs and damages assessed against him for any violation thereof.

Sec. 7.

Liability For Support

Any person who, by the sale of intoxicating liquor, causes the intoxication of another may be compelled to pay a reasonable compensation for taking care of such intoxicated person, and, in addition, $2 for every day such person is kept in consequence of such intoxication.

Sec. 8.

Suit For Damages By Husband, Wife, Child, Etc

Every husband, wife, child, parent, guardian, employer or other person who shall be injured in person or property or means of support by any intoxicated person or in consequence of the intoxication, shall have a right of action severally or jointly against any person who, by selling or giving the intoxicating liquors, causes the intoxication of such person. The owner, lessor or lessee of any premises wherein intoxicating liquors are sold who has knowledge that intoxicating liquors are sold therein or shall knowingly permit therein the sale of intoxicating liquors that have caused in whole or in part the intoxication of any person, shall be liable, severally or jointly, with the person selling or giving intoxicating liquors as aforesaid, for all damages sustained and for exemplary damages. Any such unlawful sale or giving away of intoxicating liquors shall work a forfeiture of all rights of any lessee or tenant under any lease to such premises.

Sec. 9.

Dances - Admission Of Minors

That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, as owner, agent, lessee or otherwise, that maintains or conducts any public dance hall, where intoxicating beverages or liquors are sold or given away, or any such dance hall that is adjacent to or connected with any room, building, park or enclosure of any kind where such intoxicating beverages or liquors are sold or given away, to permit any minor to enter and be and remain within such public dance hall or be and remain upon the premises where such public dance hall is located, unless such minor is ac companied by his or her parent or parents. Penalty: any violation of this act shall constitute a misdemeanor; fine, $25 to $200 for each offense. Any person falsely representing himself or herself as parent of any minor shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be fined as above.

R. S., ch. 43, sec. 48.

Intoxicating Liquors

It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or give away intoxicating liquors in any premises where public entertainments are given for gain or in any rooms connected with the same, without a special permit from the mayor. Penalty, not more than $100.

R. m. C., sec. 117.

Wine Rooms Prohibited

No person operating, maintaining or conducting a dram shop or other place where intoxicating liquors are dealt in in any way shall establish or maintain in connection with such place any wine room or private apartment the interior of which is shut off from public view by doors, curtains, etc.

Sec. 1341.

License Posted

License to keep a saloon must be posted in a conspicuous place contiguous to or above the bar.

Sec. 1346.

Habitual Drinkers

Whenever the wife or any other relative of any person habitually addicted to the use of any intoxicating drink, by notice in writing personally served, shall make a request to any person licensed to deal in intoxicating liquors not to sell or give away any such liquor to any such person, it shall thereafter be unlawful for such dealer to sell or give away to such person. Penalty, $20 to $100 fine.

Sec. 1351.

Minors

No person owning or operating a place where intoxicating liquors are sold or given away shall permit any minor to drink therein intoxicating liquors of any kind, or to play therein with dice, dominoes, cards, balls or other articles used in gaming. Nor shall any such person owning or operating such place sell or give away or deliver to any minor any intoxicating liquors either to be drunk on the premises or to be carried away. Penalty: $20 to $100 fine.

Sec. 1352.

Minors - Intoxication

Any minor who shall be intoxicated or who shall in any manner obtain for his own personal use intoxicating liquor in a licensed saloon shall be fined $25 for he first offense and not more than $100 for subsequent offenses.

Sec. 1434.

False Representations

Minors who ob-tain intoxicating liquors by means of false pre-censes shall be fined not more than $50.

Sec. 1436.

Materials Impregnated With Liquor

Any person who shall sell or deliver to or procure for any minor under 16 years of age cigarettes, whiskey, candy or other material saturated with intoxicating liquors shall be fined from $20 to $100.

Sec. 1438.

Bar Permits

The mayor is authorized upon written application to issue a bar permit for the sale of intoxicating liquors to any corporation, voluntary association or society of persons organized in good faith for fraternal, educational and charitable purposes, or to any person for such sale at retail at any gathering held by any such corporation, voluntary association or society.

The applicant for such permits shall furnish satisfactory proof of good character, the reputable standing of such society and also as to the respectability of the gathering for which the permit is sought. The ordinance shall not be construed to authorize issuance of bar permits to persons or alleged pleasure clubs for the sale of intoxicating liquors at dance halls where disreputable persons gather and young boys and girls are lured to vice and crime.

Such societies shall each be entitled to receive not to exceed six permits per year, nor shall more than six permits per year be issued to any person for sale at any gathering of such societies, and such permits shall not be granted for a longer time than from 3 o'clock p. m. until 3 o'clock a. m. The fee shall be $6 in advance. Whenever a dance is to be held at any such gathering a police officer shall be detailed whose duty it shall be to see that none of the city ordinances for the maintenance of good order and decency is violated.

Counc. Proceedings for 1910. p. 457.

Intoxicating Liquors, Sample Bottles Of - Distribution To Minors Prohibited

It shall be unlawful for any person to give away or distribute any sample bottle, jug, flask, etc., of intoxicating liquors by leaving them in any hallway or vestibule, private area or yard or on any doorstep or in any street, alley or public ground.

It is unlawful for any person to so deliver any such liquor to any minor. Penalty: fine of from $25 to $200.

Sup. III to R. M. C., p. 302.