§ 4-19. Additional provisions pertaining to ward one.

(a)

Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the respective meanings as shown herein, except in those instances where the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1)

Alcoholic beverages shall mean any fluid or any solid capable of being converted into fluid, containing more than one-half of one per cent alcohol by volume, including malt, vinous, spirituous, alcoholic or intoxicating liquors, beer, porter, ale, stout, fruit juices, cider or wine.

(2)

Person shall mean any individual or combination of individuals, whether male or female, and whether acting for any other person, and shall further mean any entity including any partnership or corporation or other thing recognized under Louisiana Law.

(3)

Sale shall mean any transaction whereby an alcoholic beverage in any quantity is disposed of or transferred from one person to another, whether as a conventional legal sale or any other guise, including habitual giving away and notwithstanding the absence of legal consideration.

(4)

Possession for sale shall mean the possession by any person of an alcoholic beverage in any quantity under such circumstances that a reasonable man would conclude or infer that such alcoholic beverage was possessed for "sale" as above defined in paragraph (a)(3). "Possession for sale" shall also mean the possession of any alcoholic beverage in any quantity in any public retail place of business by any employee, owner, operator or other person who sells or who is connected with the sale of goods or beverages at that retail place of business.

(5)

Consumption on retail business premises shall mean the consumption by drinking of an alcoholic beverage by any person on or about any retail business premises selling goods at retail to the public at any time when the part of the retail business premises where the consumption occurs is open to the public. Any employee, owner or operator of a retail business premises who permits or allows any person to consume by drinking an alcoholic beverage on or about the retail business premises to which he has a relationship, in violation of this ordinance, when the employee, owner or operator knows or reasonably should know that an alcoholic beverage is being consumed shall be guilty of violating this section.

(b)

Sale, consumption, etc., prohibited. The sale of an alcoholic beverage; the consumption on retail business premises of an alcoholic beverage, or the possession of an alcoholic beverage for sale, in ward one of Webster Parish, excluding municipalities, are hereby declared illegal and are hereby prohibited.

(c)

Penalty. Any person found guilty of violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisoned for not more than thirty (30) days, or both.

(Ord. No. 714, §§ 1—3, 12-3-74)

Editor's note

Ord. No. 714 did not specifically amend this compilation; hence inclusion as § 4-19 was at the editor's discretion.