A.    Closing Hours. It is unlawful to keep open or permit to be open any business, except restaurants, retail grocery stores, convenience stores (a/k/a quick shops) or convenience stores (a/k/a quick shops) operated as part of a gasoline service station, where alcoholic liquor is sold (whether sold for consumption on the premises or consumption off the premises, including but not limited to taverns and package liquor stores) between the hours of one a.m. and five a.m. of every day of the week, Monday through Sunday, inclusive.

    B.    1. Restaurant Hours. Restaurant operators possessing a license to sell alcoholic liquor shall not sell, dispense or serve any alcoholic liquor between the hours of one a.m. and five a.m. of every day of the week, Monday through Sunday, inclusive. Further, the operators of restaurants shall not permit customers upon the restaurant’ s premises to have alcoholic liquor in their possession, except in containers with unbroken seals, at any time between the hours of one-thirty a.m. and five-thirty a.m. of every day, Monday through Sunday, inclusive.

    2.    Retail Grocery Stores, Convenience Stores (a/k/a Quick Shops) and Convenience Stores (a/k/a Quick Shops) Operated as Part of a Gasoline Service Station Hours. Retail grocery stores, convenience stores (a/k/a quick shops) and convenience stores (a/k/a quick shops) operated as part of a gasoline service station whose operators possess a license to sell packaged liquor, shall not dispense liquor on premises and shall only be permitted to sell packaged liquor for off-premises consumption. Such establishments shall not and it shall be unlawful for such establishments to sell packaged liquor between the hours of one a.m. and five a.m. of any day of the week, Monday through Sunday, inclusive.

    C.    Penalty. Except as stated above, no alcoholic liquor shall be sold and all licensed premises must remain closed at the times specified. Any holder of a retail liquor license or his agent or employee who violates the provisions of this chapter in regulating the legal hours of operation shall, upon conviction of the first offense, be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00), nor more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), and for the second offense, be fined not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), and suffer the revocation of such retail liquor license.

    D.    Time. The times referred to above shall mean daylight savings time when the same is in effect in the city, and upon cessation of daylight savings time, shall mean central standard time. (Ord. 1826 § 1, 2000: Ord. 513 § 1, 1982: prior code § 21-3-1)