Resolution 8371 RESOLUTION NO . 8371
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Miami
Beach, Florida, that it is deemed to be to the best interest
of said City to secure the passage, at the 1953 Session of the
State Legislature, of a Bill entitled:
"AN ACT AMENDING CHAPTER 24710, LAWS OF FLORIDA,
ACTS OF 1947, ENTITLED: 'AN ACT AUTHORIZING AND
EMPOWERING THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, IN DADE COUNTY,
FLORIDA, BY ORDINANCE OF ITS CITY COUNCIL, TO LIMIT
THE NUMBER OF LICENSES GRANTED BY THE CITY OF MIAMI
BEACH, FLORIDA, FOR THE SALE OF INTOXICATING BEVER-
AGES WITHIN ITS CORPORATE LIMITS BY VENDORS OPERAT-
ING PLACES OF BUSINESS WHERE BEVERAGES CONTAINING
ALCOHOL OF MORE THAN FOURTEEN PER CENTUM BY WIGHT
ARE SOLD, TO ONE SUCH LICENSE FOR EACH FIFTEEN HUN-
DRED PERSONS IN THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, ACCORDING
TO THE LAST PRECEDING FEDERAL CENSUS, AND PROVIDING
THAT ANY SUCH LICENSES ISSUED TO OR HELD BY OPERA-
TORS OF RAILROADS, SLEEPING CARS, STEAMSHIPS, BUSES
AND AIRPLANES, INCORPORATED CLUBS, INCLUDING SOCIAL
CLUBS, CATERERS AT HORSE AND DOG RACING PLANTS AS
DEFINED IN THE BEVERAGE LAW OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA,
HOTELS HAVING ONE HUNDRED OR MORE GUEST ROOMS AND
BONA FIDE RESTAURANTS WITH A SEATING CAPACITY FOR
SIX HUNDRED OR MORE PATRONS AND IN WHICH THE ROOFED
IN FLOOR AREA WHEREIN FOOD IS SERVED TO GUESTS CON-
TAINS NOT LESS THAN FORTY-EIGHT HUNDRED SQUARE FEET,
SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED NOR COUNTED IN ARRIVING AT
THE NUMBER OF SUCH LICENSES TO BE ISSUED BY SAID
CITY BY VIRTUE OF ANY ORDINANCE ADOPTED UNDER THE
PROVISIONS HEREOF AND PROVIDING THAT NO SUCH LIMITA-
TION BY ORDINANCE SHALL AFFECT OR PREVENT THE RENEW-
AL OR TRANSFER OF SUCH LICENSES AS MAY BE IN RPFECT
ON THE EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF; ' SO AS TO DEFINE A
SERVICE BAR AND EXCLUDE THE LICENSING OF SUCH FROM
THE POPULATION LIMITATIONS PROVIDED; TO AUTHORIZE
THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, BY ORDINANCE, TO ZONE FOR
THE SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS FROM SERVICE BARS,
AND TO PRESCRIBE LICENSE FEES THEREFOR; TO PROVIDE
THAT CHAPTER 561, FLORIDA STATUTES, 1951, SHALL NOT
APPLY TO, NOR LIMIT THE POWER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI
BEACH TO PRESCRIBE THE MANNER OF SELLING INTOXICAT-
ING BEVERAGES FROM SUCH SERVICE BARS FOR CONSUMPTION
ON THE PREMISES; ENACTING OF OTHER PROVISIONS RE-
LATING TO THE SUBJECT, AND PROVIDING THAT THIS ACT
SHALL TAKE EFFECT UPON BECOMING A LAW. "
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this Resolution and
of said Bill be furnished to the Honorable R. B. Gautier, Jr. ,
the Honorable Robert L. Floyd, the Honorable George Okell, and
the Honorable Dante B. Fascell, Members of the Florida Legis-
lature from Dade County, and that they each be respectfully re-
quested to see that said Bill be introduced and passed at said
Session.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 13th day of May2 A. D. 1953.
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Mayor
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OFFICE OF CITY ATTORNEY - CITY HALL - MIAMI BEACH 39, FLORIDA
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