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 Windermere
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 8. BUSINESSES
 Article IV. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

  § 8-83. Hours of sale.  

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  • No alcoholic beverages shall be sold, consumed or served or permitted to be served or consumed in any place holding a state license between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 7:00 a.m. of the same morning, seven days a week, except as hereafter provided:

    (1)

    Within the meaning of this section, a sale shall be regarded as being made if the alcoholic beverages are delivered to any person during prohibited hours regardless of whether payment therefore is made at some other time. If any such license vendor be a corporation, the officers of such corporation shall be regarded as the owner thereof for purposes of enforcement of this chapter. All vendors holding state licenses to operate places of business shall not keep such places of business open for business during prohibited hours. If any door of such place of business be opened during prohibited hours except to admit the owner or one of his regular employees, or if any person other than the owner or one of his regular employees enters into such place of business during prohibited hours, it shall be prima facie evidence that such place is open for business, provided that nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the operation of a business for purposes other than the sale of alcoholic beverages during the hours between 12:00 midnight and 7:00 a.m. of the same morning; provided further that any place of business holding a state license, except those places qualifying under subsection (2) of this section, shall, at the hour of 12:00 midnight, cause all outside lights on the premises occupied by it to be extinguished and shall cause all entrances and exits to such establishment to be locked and the entrances and exits shall not be opened during the prohibited hours, except to admit the proprietor of such place of business and his employees to enter and to permit the egress of the proprietor, employees and customers of such place of business from the premises, Customers within the place of business at the hour of 12:00 midnight who have prior thereto purchased any single drink of alcoholic beverage and have not completed the consumption thereof shall be permitted to complete the consumption of such alcoholic beverage and shall be required by the proprietor or his employees to leave the place of business as soon as may be reasonably possible. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed so as to permit any place of business to sell, or serve, or permit alcoholic beverages to be sold or served, during prohibited hours.

    (2)

    However, licensees for the sale of alcoholic beverages in the town shall, on that date known as New Year's Eve (December 31), be permitted to remain open for such sales for one hour after the regular closing time established by this section.

(Code 1972, § 4-20; Code 1991, § 4-85; Ord. No. 93-3, 7-13-1993; Ord. No. 2014-08, § 1, 9-9-2014)

State law reference

Municipal regulation of the hours of alcoholic beverage sales, F.S. §§ 562.14, 562.45.