§ 5-29. Permitted hours of sale, consumption and service.

(a)

Permitted hours of sale, consumption and service.

(1)

Clubs, nightclubs, cocktail bars, hotel bars and restaurant bars licensed under the state beverage laws to sell beer, wine or alcoholic beverages may sell, serve or deliver or offer to sell, serve or deliver any beer, wine or alcoholic beverage, regardless of alcohol content, Sunday through Thursday between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. of the following day, and Friday and Saturday between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. of the following day, as long as the beer, wine or alcoholic beverage is served and consumed on the premises.

(2)

Convenience stores, bottle clubs, package stores, vendors licensed under the state beverage laws to sell beer, wine or alcoholic beverages and any vendor not listed in section (1) above may sell, serve or deliver or offer to sell, serve or deliver any beer, wine or alcoholic beverage, regardless of alcohol content, Sunday through Thursday between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. of the following day, and Friday and Saturday between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. of the following day.

(3)

Any beer, wine or alcoholic beverage, regardless of content, ordered by a patron from a club, nightclub, cocktail bar, hotel bar, restaurant bar, convenience store, bottle club, package store or vendor and served prior to 2:00 a.m. Monday through Friday, may be consumed on licensed premises by a patron until no later than 2:30 a.m. Any beer, wine or alcoholic beverage, regardless of content, ordered by a patron from a club, nightclub, cocktail bar, hotel bar, restaurant bar, convenience store, bottle club, package store or vendor and served prior to 3:00 a.m. Saturday or Sunday, may be consumed on licensed premises by a patron until no later than 3:30 a.m.

(4)

Sale, service or consumption after the applicable hours in this section are prohibited.

(b)

Liquors, beers and wines, hours of sale. No vendors licensed under the state beverage law to sell liquor, beer or wine by the package, bottle or original container, for consumption off premises, shall sell or offer for sale or deliver any liquor, beer or wine in the original package bottle or container for consumption off the premises during any hour prohibited by (a) above.

(c)

Taking container off premises after hours. It is the intention of this section to prohibit such vendors from permitting anyone purchasing package goods in the original container to leave the vendor's premises during the prohibited hours, taking with him in any container any beers, wines, liquors, or alcoholic beverages originally purchased by package, bottle or container, so that the same may be consumed off the premises.

(d)

Sales by employees during prohibited hours. Any employee of a vendor licensed under the state beverage law shall not sell, or offer for sale, any beers, wines, liquors, or alcoholic beverages of any kind during the prohibited hours.

(e)

Gifts. It shall be deemed a violation of this section for any person, or any agent, servant or employee of any person, licensed under the state beverage law, during the hours prohibited under (b) above, to gratuitously give any kind of alcoholic beverage, whether conditioned upon the purchase of another kind of alcoholic beverage, or product of any nature, at any inflated price, or otherwise, or in the form of a so-called bonus predicated upon another purchase, or as a gift.

(f)

The provisions of this section shall also apply to vendors within the special entertainment overlay district, except that the hours of operation within the special entertainment overlay district shall be those specified in section 5-56 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Fort Lauderdale.

(Code 1953, § 5-10; Ord. No. C-73-11, § 1, 2-6-73; Ord. No. C-77-98, § 1, 7-20-77; Ord. No. C-81-88, § 1, 9-29-81; Ord. No. C-96-44, § 1, 10-1-96; Ord. No. C-00-38, § 1, 9-6-00; Ord. No. C-04-63, § 1, 12-21-04 ; Ord. No. C-06-45, § 1, 1-4-07 ; Ord. No. C-11-07, § 1, 2-15-11 ; Ord. No. C-16-18 , § 1, 9-7-16; Ord. No. C-16-26 , § 1, 11-15-16; Ord. No. C-18-15 , § 1, 7-10-18)

State law reference

Regulation of hours of sales, F.S. § 562.14.