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ORDINANCE NO. 6866
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CODE OF AUGUSTA-RICHMOND
COUNTY BY ADOPTING A NEW SECTION TO BE KNOWN AS
ARTICLE 6, CHAPTER 2, SECTION 64(d)(1),ET SEQ.;. TO DEFINE
SPECIAL ALCOHOL LICENSE DISTANCE REQUIREMENTS WITH
REFERENCE TO STRUCTURES NOT ORIGINALLY BUILT AS A
PLACE OF WORSHIP AND LOCATED IN THE DOWNTOWN
BUSINESS DISTRICT; TO DEFINE THE DOWNTOWN BUSINESS
DISTRICT FOR PURPOSES OF THE SPECIAL ALCOHOL LICENSE
DISTANCE REQUIREMENTS; TO PROVIDE FOR EXCEPTIONS TO
THIS ORDINANCE FOR SUCH STRUCTURES IN USE AS OF THE
EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ORDINANCE; AND TO REPEAL ALL
ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT
HEREWITH.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE AUGUSTA-RICHMOND. COUNTY
COMMISSION AND IT IS HEREBY ORDAINED BY THE AUTHORITY OF SAME,
that the Augusta-Richmond County Code is hereby amended to add a new Section 6-2-
64(d)(1) providing as follows:
SECTION 1. Special alcohol license distance requirements for the Downtown
Business District.
(a) The "Downtown Business District" for purposes of this Ordinance is
bounded:
1. North by the Savannah River;
2. East by the western right-of-way line of Fifth Street;
3. South by the north right-of-way line of Greene Street; and
4. West by the east right-of-way line of Fifteenth Street.
(b) Any structure in the "Downtown Business District" as herein above defined and not
originally built as a place of worship will not be considered in applying any distance requirement
in reference to the issuance of any alcohol license by Augusta, Georgia after the effective date of
this Ordinance.
(c) Exceptions: This Ordinance shall not apply to any structure in said "Downtown
Business District" not originally built as a place of worship and in use as a place of worship on
the effective date of this Ordinance.
(d) In the Downtown Business District as herein defined, new applications for alcoholic
beverage licenses submitted after the effective date of this Ordinance, shall be subject to distance
requirements of 300 feet measured from the main entrance of the applicant's structure to the
main entrance of the closest occupied structure originally built as a place of worship or ariy other
structure not originally built as a place of worship and in use as a place of worship on or before
the effective date of this Ordinance.
SECTION 1. This ordinance shall become effective upon its adoption in accordance
with applicable laws.
SECTION 3. All ordinance or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are
repealed.
SECTION 4. The prOVlSlons of this Ordinance are severable. If any part of this
Ordinance is held to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions of
this ordinance shall remain in full force and effect.
Duly adopted this ~ day of March
,2006.
Augusta, Georgia
ATTEST:~~~
Clerk
By. cPV(d ~
Mayor
First Reading: March 7, 2006
Second Reading: ..Marcil 21._ 2006
Publish in the Augusta Chronicle April 6, 2006
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I, the undersigned, ,Clerk, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a
true and correct copy of an Ordnance adopted by said Augusta-Richmond County Commission at
two consecutive meetings held on the following dates, to wit: , 2006
and , 2006, as the same appears on the minutes of said Commission this
_ day of , 2006.
Published in the Augusta Chronicle
,2006. .
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Clerk