A. Alcoholic Beverage Establishment. A commercial and non-commercial establishment wherein alcoholic beverages are sold, served, or given away for consumption on the premises, excluding full-service restaurants. Typical alcoholic beverage establishments include but are not limited to the following recognized types of establishments: bars, cocktail lounges, ballrooms, dance bars, piano bars, billiard or game parlors, bowling alleys and nightclubs.

B. Alcoholic Beverage Sales. The retail sale, for on-premises consumption of liquor, beer, wine, or other alcoholic beverages.

C. Financial Interest. Any direct or indirect interest in the management, operation, ownership, profits or revenue (gross or net) of an alcoholic beverage establishment. A "financial interest" means a monetary investment in an alcoholic beverage establishment or the premises and business enterprises directly related to it.

D. Full Service Restaurant. A place which is regularly and in a bona fide manner used and kept open for the serving of meals to guests for compensation which has: 1) suitable kitchen facilities; 2) a primary use of sit-down meal service to patrons; 3) adequate seating arrangements for patrons provided on the premises; 4) alcoholic beverages served for consumption on the premises are clearly incidental to the primary food services determined by the Director. A full-service restaurant does not include any billiard or pool hall, video arcade, bowling alley or adult entertainment business. The sale or service of sandwiches or snack foods (whether prepared in a kitchen or made elsewhere) shall not constitute a full service restaurant.

E. Interested Person. Any member, stockholder, officer, director, partner, principal, associate, individual, trustee, or combination thereof holding any financial interest in a permit, or who has the power to exercise influence over the operation of an alcoholic beverage establishment or a permittee.

F. Manager. Anyone who represents the interest of the permittee in the operation of an alcoholic beverage establishment whose duties include but may not be limited to: the making or changing of policy; hiring or firing of employees; or generally exercising independent judgment in the operation of the alcoholic beverage establishment. A manager need not have a financial interest in the alcoholic beverage establishment. A manager must be an employee of the permittee, or if not an employee, then a person having a financial interest as a partner, a shareholder, or trustee of the alcoholic beverage establishment (but not otherwise).

G. On-Site Sale. The sale of alcoholic beverages including beer, wine and distilled spirits for consumption on the premises where sold.

H. Permit. A conditional use permit issued pursuant to Section 24.060.

I. Permittee. The individual or entity that owns an alcoholic beverage establishment and to whom a conditional use permit to operate an alcoholic beverage establishment has been issued by the City.

J. Transfer of a Financial Interest. The assignment, bequest, conveyance, demise, devise, gift, grant, lease, loan, sublease or transfer of a financial interest in an alcoholic beverage establishment. (Ord. 2811 § 4, 2022.)