§ 6-13. Happy hour promotions; alcohol service restrictions.

(a)

No licensee under this chapter, or employee or agent of a licensee, shall engage in any of the following conduct in connection with the sale or other disposition of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises:

(1)

The giving away of any alcoholic beverage in conjunction with the sale of any other alcoholic beverage;

(2)

The sale of two or more alcoholic beverages for a single price, including the sale of all such beverages a customer can or desires to drink at a single price;

(3)

Selling, offering to sell, or delivering to any person any alcoholic beverage at a price less than one-half the price customarily charged for such alcoholic beverage; provided that nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit reducing the price of a drink by up to one-half the price customarily charged;

(4)

Requiring or allowing the purchase of a second or subsequent alcoholic beverage at the same time another alcoholic beverage is purchased or before the first such beverage has been consumed, by any one person; or

(5)

Increasing the volume of alcoholic beverage contained in a drink without proportionately increasing the price customarily charged for such beverage.

(b)

It is the intent of this section to prohibit activities typically associated with promotions referred to as happy hour.

(c)

As used in this section, the phrase "customarily charged" means the price regularly charged for such alcoholic beverage during the same calendar week.

(d)

No licensee holding a license to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises shall knowingly or recklessly allow the selling, offering to sell, or delivering to any person or group of persons more than six fluid ounces of distilled spirits, spirituous liquor, or fortified wine, as defined in section 6-1, in one container.

(Code 1982, § 9-2-28; Ord. No. 754 , pt. VI, 10-16-18)