In order to be granted a Class I, City of Decatur alcoholic liquor license, I hereby agree to
the terms set out in Chapter 52, Section 4, which defines Class I Alcoholic Liquor License, as:
Class I, under which the licensed premises may only be a restaurant at which alcoholic
liquor may be sold by the drink or pitcher only, for consumption on the premises and only at
tables and incidental to the service of meals. A Class I licensee shall not be permitted to operate
on the licensed premises a bar or lounge area at which alcoholic liquors alone may be purchased,
which said Class I license shall not be issued for any premises situated in any Residence, Office,
Park Mobile Home or Neighborhood Shopping District as established by the Zoning Ordinance
unless the licensed premises are a club house connected with a golf course or a restaurant
establishment as an approved Historic Neighborhood Use. Restaurant shall be defined as any
public place kept, used, maintained, advertised and held out to the public primarily as a place
where meals are served and where meals are actually prepared and served without sleeping
accommodations, such space being provided with adequate and sanitary kitchen which shall
include, but not limited to, sink; refrigerator with the minimum capacity of 20 cubic feet; and
oven with the minimum capacity of 4.3 cubic feet or a range or a grill; and dining equipment and
capacity and having employed therein a sufficient number and kind of employees to prepare,
cook and serve suitable food for its guests, where the sale or consumption of alcoholic liquor is
only incidental to the serving of meals and where 50% or more of the gross revenue of the
business must be from the serving of meals. (Amended, Ordinance No. 2015-22, May 18, 2015)
(Amended, Ordinance No. 2000-95, November 6, 2000) (Amended, Ordinance No. 89-13,
January 30, 1989)
Dated this ____________ day of ________________, _________
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Manager (Print Name)
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Manager (Signature)
CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS
City Clerk
#1 Gary K. Anderson Plaza Decatur, IL 62523-1106
Phone: 217-424-2708
Fax: 217-450-2297
