Florida Senate - 2012                            (NP)    SB 1034
       
       
       
       By Senator Dean
       
       
       
       
       3-00792-12                                            20121034__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to Citrus County; amending chapter 84
    3         409, Laws of Florida, as amended; revising criteria
    4         for special alcoholic beverage licenses for
    5         restaurants within the county; providing an effective
    6         date.
    7  
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
    9  
   10         Section 1. Section 1 of chapter 84-409, Laws of Florida, as
   11  amended by chapter 86-391, Laws of Florida, is amended to read:
   12         Section 1. Notwithstanding any Citrus County ordinance or
   13  special law prescribing standards for special restaurant
   14  alcoholic beverage licenses, or any general law limiting the
   15  number of alcoholic beverage licenses in a county, the Division
   16  of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco shall issue a special
   17  alcoholic beverage license to any restaurant in Citrus County
   18  which meets all of the following criteria:
   19         (a) Two thousand five hundred 2,500 square feet of service
   20  area.
   21         (b) Equipment to serve 150 persons full-course meals at
   22  tables. at one time
   23         (c) Fifty-one 51 percent of its gross revenue is from the
   24  sale of food and nonalcoholic beverages.
   25         (d) Alcoholic beverage consumption is limited to table
   26  service with meals.
   27         (e) no cocktail lounge or open bar on the premises.
   28  
   29  However, Any restaurant licensed under this section that
   30  maintains a service area of 4,000 square feet or more of service
   31  area may provide a cocktail lounge or open bar on the premises
   32  with no limit on service, and alcoholic beverage consumption is
   33  not limited to table service with meals. A restaurant licensed
   34  under this section that maintains a service area of 2,500 square
   35  feet or more, but less than 4,000 square feet, may provide a
   36  cocktail lounge or open bar on the premises that serves up to 10
   37  percent of the capacity of the restaurant, and alcoholic
   38  beverage consumption is not limited to table service with meals.
   39         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.