§ 4-108. Happy hour promotions.

(a)

No licensee under this chapter or employee or agent of a licensee shall engage in any of the following practices in connection with the sale or other disposition of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises:

(1)

The giving away of any alcoholic beverage in conjunction with the sale of any other alcoholic beverage.

(2)

The sale of two (2) or more alcoholic beverages for a single price, including the sale of all such beverages a customer can or desires to drink at a single price.

(3)

Selling, offering to sell, or delivering to any person or persons any alcoholic beverage at a price less than one-half the price customarily charged for such alcoholic beverage, provided nothing contained herein shall be construed to prohibit reducing the price of a drink or drinks by up to one-half the price customarily charged.

(4)

Requiring or allowing the purchase of a second or subsequent alcoholic beverage at the same time another alcoholic beverage is purchased or before the first such beverage has been consumed, by any one (1) person.

(5)

Increasing the volume of alcoholic beverage contained in a drink without proportionately increasing the price customarily charged for such beverage.

(6)

Selling, offering to sell, or delivering to any person or persons, any alcoholic beverage made with more than three (3) ounces of distilled spirits.

(7)

Selling offering to sell, or delivering to any person, any beer or wine in a container of more than twelve (12) ounces or its metric equivalent.

(b)

It is the intent of this section to prohibit activities typically associated with promotions referred to as "happy hour."

(c)

In this section "customarily charged" means the price regularly charged for such alcoholic beverage during the same calendar week.

(Code 1976, § 7-2028; Ord. No. 89-28, § 1, 6-27-89; Ord. No. 98-04, Pt. 1, 4-30-98)