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91_HB3870

 
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  Liquor  Control  Act  of 1934 by
 2    changing Section 6-11.

 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section  5.  The Liquor Control Act of 1934 is amended by
 6    changing Section 6-11 as follows:

 7        (235 ILCS 5/6-11) (from Ch. 43, par. 127)
 8        Sec. 6-11.  No license shall be issued for  the  sale  at
 9    retail of any alcoholic liquor within 100 feet of any church,
10    school   other   than  an  institution  of  higher  learning,
11    hospital, home for aged or indigent persons or for  veterans,
12    their  spouses  or children or any military or naval station,
13    provided, that this prohibition shall  not  apply  to  hotels
14    offering restaurant service, regularly organized clubs, or to
15    restaurants,  food  shops  or  other  places  where  sale  of
16    alcoholic liquors is not the principal business carried on if
17    the  place  of  business  so  exempted  is  not  located in a
18    municipality of more than 500,000 persons, unless required by
19    local ordinance; nor to the renewal of a license for the sale
20    at retail of alcoholic liquor on premises within 100 feet  of
21    any  church  or  school  where  the church or school has been
22    established within such 100 feet since the  issuance  of  the
23    original  license.   In the case of a church, the distance of
24    100 feet shall  be  measured  to  the  nearest  part  of  any
25    building  used  for  worship services or educational programs
26    and not to property boundaries.
27        Nothing in this Section shall prohibit the issuance of  a
28    retail  license authorizing the sale of alcoholic liquor to a
29    restaurant, the primary business of  which  is  the  sale  of
30    goods  baked  on  the premises if (i) the restaurant is newly
31    constructed and located on a lot  of  not  less  than  10,000
 
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 1    square feet, (ii) the restaurant costs at least $1,000,000 to
 2    construct,  (iii)  the  licensee  is  the  titleholder to the
 3    premises  and  resides  on  the  premises,   and   (iv)   the
 4    construction  of the restaurant is completed within 18 months
 5    of the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1998.
 6        Nothing in this Section shall prohibit the issuance of  a
 7    retail  license  authorizing  the  sale  of  alcoholic liquor
 8    incidental to a restaurant if (1) the primary business of the
 9    restaurant consists of the sale of food  where  the  sale  of
10    liquor is incidental to the sale of food and the applicant is
11    a completely new owner of the restaurant, (2) the immediately
12    prior  owner or operator of the premises where the restaurant
13    is located operated the premises as a restaurant and  held  a
14    valid retail license authorizing the sale of alcoholic liquor
15    at  the  restaurant for at least part of the 24 months before
16    the change of ownership, and (3) the restaurant is located 75
17    or more feet from a school.
18        In the interest of further developing  Illinois'  economy
19    in  the  area  of  commerce, tourism, convention, and banquet
20    business, nothing in this Section shall prohibit issuance  of
21    a  retail license authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages
22    to a restaurant, banquet facility, grocery  store,  or  hotel
23    having  not  fewer than 150 guest room accommodations located
24    in   a   municipality   of   more   than   500,000   persons,
25    notwithstanding the  proximity  of  such  hotel,  restaurant,
26    banquet  facility,  or grocery store to any church or school,
27    if the licensed premises described on the license are located
28    within an enclosed mall or building of a height of at least 6
29    stories, or 60 feet in the case of a building that  has  been
30    registered  as  a  national  landmark,  or in a grocery store
31    having a minimum of 56,010 square feet of floor  space  in  a
32    single  story building in an open mall of at least 3.96 acres
33    that is adjacent to a public school that  opened  as  a  boys
34    technical  high school in 1934, and in each of these cases if
 
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 1    the sale of alcoholic liquors is not the  principal  business
 2    carried on by the licensee.
 3        For purposes of this Section, a "banquet facility" is any
 4    part  of  a building that caters to private parties and where
 5    the sale of alcoholic liquors is not the principal business.
 6        Nothing in this Section shall prohibit the issuance of  a
 7    license  to  a  church  or  private  school to sell at retail
 8    alcoholic liquor if any such sales  are  limited  to  periods
 9    when  groups  are  assembled  on  the premises solely for the
10    promotion of some  common  object  other  than  the  sale  or
11    consumption of alcoholic liquors.
12        Nothing in this Section shall prohibit a church or church
13    affiliated  school  located  in a municipality with 75,000 or
14    more inhabitants from locating within 100 feet of a  property
15    for  which  there  is a preexisting license to sell alcoholic
16    liquor at retail.   In  these  instances,  the  local  zoning
17    authority  may,  by ordinance adopted simultaneously with the
18    granting of an initial special  use  zoning  permit  for  the
19    church or church affiliated school, provide that the 100-foot
20    restriction in this Section shall not apply to that church or
21    church affiliated school and future retail liquor licenses.
22    (Source:  P.A.  90-617,  eff.  7-10-98; 90-655, eff. 7-30-98;
23    91-357, eff. 7-29-99; 91-623, eff. 1-1-00.)

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