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 Kure Beach
 Code of Ordinances
 Part II. Code
 Chapter 3. Alcoholic Beverages

  § 3-2. Requirements for taverns and bars  

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  • (a) Definition. Bar or tavern licensed by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of North Carolina shall mean any place primarily engaged in the sale of malt beverages as provided in G.S. § 18B-1000(7).

    (b) All bars and taverns shall provide bathroom facilities as required by the North Carolina State Building Code, Volume I.

    (c) All bars and taverns during the hours of operation shall keep the windows and doors closed. Air cooling and ventilation shall be from mechanical means only and shall comply with the standards contained in Table 1500, Ventilation Design Criteria of the North Carolina State Building Code, Volume III, for restaurants.

    (d) All bars and taverns shall have a person managing the business on the premises during the hours of operation at all times. The name of such person shall be conspicuously displayed at the entrance of the business premises.

    (e) All bars and taverns shall provide off street parking spaces as required by the Code.

    (f) No open air bars and taverns or bars and taverns on rooftops shall be allowed, or public access permitted to any open air decks or rooftops from any bar and/or tavern.

    (g) Civil penalty. Any operator of any bar or tavern who violates any of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of fifty dollars ($50.00) per each day of continuing noncompliance.

    (h) Injunctive relief. Whenever the town council has reasonable cause to believe that any person is violating or threatening to violate any section of the Code of the town, the town may either before or after the institution of any other action or proceeding authorized by this Code, institute a civil action in the name of the town for injunctive relief to restrain the violation or threatened violation. The action shall be brought in the appropriate division of the General Court of Justice in New Hanover County. The institution of an action for injunctive relief under this subsection shall not relieve any party to such proceeding from any civil or criminal penalty proscribed for violations to this Code.

(Ord. of 4-20-83)