A. No license shall be issued for the sale at retail of any alcoholic liquor within three hundred feet of any church, school, hospital, home for the aged or indigent persons or for veterans, their wives or children or any military or naval station. This prohibition shall not apply to hotels offering restaurant service, 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 shall have been established for such purposes prior to the taking effect of the ordinance codified in this chapter.
No person shall hereafter engage in business as a retailer of any alcoholic liquor within three hundred feet of any undertaking establishment or mortuary, or within four hundred feet of another location where a liquor license has been issued, except that a fraternal organization or church may be issued a liquor license as a retailer of alcoholic liquor, without regard to its distance from another fraternal organization, church, or regularly organized club.
Distances provided by this section shall be measured between property boundary lines and not from the improvements on such premises.
B.
The distance prohibition described in subsection A of this section shall not of itself prohibit the renewal under Section 5.04.110 of this chapter of a license originally issued prior to the effective date of the ordinance codified in this section when such renewal is to the original holder, or its successor at the original licensed location.
C.
None of the location and restriction requirements in this section shall apply to Class C liquor licenses for restaurants. Nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to alter lessen, or waive, any zoning requirements of the city of Granite City, such as Ordinance 3818, as now or as hereafter amended.
5.04.125 - Short term license issuance to fraternal, religious or civic organizations.
The liquor commissioner of the city is empowered to grant licenses for a period not to exceed seven days to any fraternal, religious or civic organization upon the payment of a thirty-dollar license fee per day and the filing of a proper certificate of insurance with the commissioner.