No license shall be issued for the sale at retail of any alcoholic liquor within one hundred (100) feet of any church, school, hospital, home for the aged or indigent persons or for veterans, their spouses or children; provided, that this prohibition shall not apply to hotels offering restaurant services, regularly organized clubs, or to restaurants, food shops or other places where the sale of alcoholic liquors is not the principal business carried on if such place of business so exempted was so located and established before the enactment of the city’ s liquor code.

    The prohibition contained in this section shall also not apply to renewal of a license for the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor on premises within one hundred (100) feet of any church or school where such church or school has been established within one hundred (100) feet since the issuance of the original license. In the case of a church, the distance of one hundred (100) feet shall be measured to the nearest part of any building used for worship services or educational programs and not to property boundaries.

    Nothing contained herein shall prohibit the issuance of a license to a church or private school to sell at retail alcoholic liquor if any such sales are limited to periods when groups are assembled on the premises solely for the promotion of some common object other than the sale or consumption of alcoholic liquors. (Ord. 989 § 1, 1992: prior code § 21-3-2)