§ 4-5. Facilities and business required; location of business limited.

(a)

No permit authorizing the sale of any alcoholic beverage under this chapter shall be granted for any premises situated within 300 feet or less of a parish or municipal playground or of a building used exclusively as a regular church or synagogue, public library, school, full-time day care center as defined in R.S. 17:405(A)(4), or a correctional facility housing inmates, including but not limited to a halfway house. When there are subdivisions with streets, blocks, sidewalks, etc., this distance shall be measured from the nearest point of the property line with the church, synagogue, library, playground or school to the nearest point of the property line of the premises to be permitted. In undeveloped areas of the village, the distance shall be measured in straight lines from the nearest point of the respective premises.

(b)

The prohibition in this section shall not apply to any premises maintained as a bona fide hotel or fraternal organization, nor shall it apply to premises which have been permitted to deal alcoholic beverages for a period of one year or longer prior to the effective date of the ordinance from which this section is derived.

(Code 2004, § 13.5; Ord. No. 4, 1952)