cured for the district for which such license is sought, as required by the Constitution and Laws of this State. If any Collector of Taxes shall allow any liquor license to be paid for in installments, or if any Collector of Taxes shall issue any license without having first been paid the face value of said license, such Tax Collector shall be removed from office by the Governor. Distillers of Liquors. Distillers of Spirituous and Brewers of Malt Liquors: Shall pay to the State a license tax of seven hundred and fifty ($750.00) dollars in each County, for each place of business. Provided, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to require a license tax from any person Proviso. who shall manufacture wines or brandies from sweet potatoes, or other produce of vines, fruit trees, strawberry bushes and pineapples grown in this State; provided, that no license shall be issued to any person to sell or distill spirituous, vinous or malt liquors in any County or election district when such sale has been prohibited in pursuance of the Constitution and Laws of this State; provided further, that no license issued to distillers of spirituous and brewers of malt liquors shall be so construed as to permit such distiller or brewer to sell their products in quantities of less than fifty gallons of spirit uous or ten gallons of malt liquors, either in bottles or casks, except to regular licensed liquor dealers. Quantity allowed to to whom. be sold and Makers of Domestic Brandies. Selling on That makers of domestic wines or domestic brandies, shall be permitted to sell the same in quantities of not less than one quart without being considered dealers in liquors; provided that should any maker of domestic wines or brandies mix the same with any other liquor, or adulterate the same, he shall be considered a Proviso. dealer in liquors, and shall be required to take out a license as a liquor dealer; provided, that the selling of such wines, beer, cider or other intoxicating drinks on Sunday is expressly prohibited, and any person so selling shall be guilty of misdemeanor and upon conviction be fined in the sum of one hundred ($100.00) dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail sixty days for each offense; provided further, that druggists may sell such mixtures as are made official in the United States Dispensatory without being required to take out a license to sell spirituous, vinous or malt liquors; provided, that no license issued under the provisions of this Act shall Sunday pro hibited. Penalty. Druggists certain mixtures. may sell 1913 Sale on hibited; license to be marked in red ink. allow the holder thereof to sell such liquors as described in this Act, between the hours of 12 o'clock Saturday Sunday pro- night and 12 o'clock Sunday night, and the Collector issuing any license under this Act shall have written upon its face in red ink "This license does not allow the holder to sell liquors between the hours of 12 o'clock Saturday night and 12 o'clock Sunday night," and if the holder sells liquors at times in which this Act prohibits the selling of same, he shall be deemed guilty of selling liquors without a license; provided, that if any door of any place where such liquors, wines or beers are sold, be opened on Sunday, except to admit the owner, or if any person other than the owner go into such place on Sunday, it shall be prima facie evidence of the sale of such liquor. Penalty. Penalty for selling without a license. Duty of State's Attorney and County Solicitor. Soliciting, selling, delivering, etc., in certain places prohibited. Penalty. Clubs Selling liquors to members and non That any person or persons, who shall engage in the sale of such liquors in this State as provided in this Act without first having procured a license as provided in this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished for the first of fense, by a fine not exceeding $500.00, or by imprisonment not exceeding six months. And for the second, or any subsequent offense, by a fine not exceeding $3,000.00 or by imprisonment in the State Prison not more than 5 years. It shall be the duty of the State's Attorneys and County Solicitors to file information against any party violating the provisions of this Act. No license shall authorize any person, dealer or agent to sell, accept, or solicit orders for, or deliver any spirituous, vinous or malt liquors in any mill, manufactory, phosphate plant or turpentine still, or upon the premises or land of the owner or operator of such mill, manufactory, plant or still, or upon any private or public road passing through such premises or land, or in any county or voting precinct where the sale of such spirituous, vinous or malt liquors is prohibited by law, and any person, dealer or agent so selling, soliciting or accepting or delivering shall, upon conviction, be punished as for a sale of liquors without license. Sec. 32. Clubs Selling Liquors to Members and NonResidents: Persons associating themselves together as a club, whether incorporated or not incorporated, includ guests, must ing social clubs incorporated by orders of Circuit Judges, after their charters have been found to be for objects resident pay a license. authorized by law and approved by such judges, organized for lawful purposes and not for the purpose of evading the payment of license taxes on dealers in spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, before serving or distributing to their members or non-resident guests, spirituous, vinous or malt liquors or any preparation thereof, whether such service or distribution be made upon contribution to the club of money, or by check or other devices, shall pay to the State an annual license tax as follows: 1913 Bond for each club required If composed of less than seventy-five (75) members, License. one hundred and seventy-five ($175.00) dollars; if composed of seventy-five members or more, two hundred and fifty ($250.00) dollars, and to the county and municipality in which located, to each, a tax of one-half the amount paid to the State; Provided, That no such club Provided. license shall be issued in any county or election district in which the sale of intoxicating liquors is prohibited in pursuance of the Laws and Constitution of this State. Provided further, That no such club license shall be issued unless and until such club shall enter into a good and sufficient bond for two thousand ($2,000) dollars with two good and sufficient sureties and payable to the Governor of the State of Florida and his successors in office, and conditioned that no officer, agent or employee of such club shall violate any of the laws of this State regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors, wines and beers; said bond to be approved by the Board of County Commissioners of the county in which such license is to issue. The payment of such club license tax shall authorize such service or distribution to members only and non-resident guests of such clubs, and such service and distribution to members and non-resident guests shall not be deemed sales within the meaning of the Laws of this State, but any service or distribution to any other than a member or non-resident guests of such licensed club shall be deemed a sale, and any officer, member or employee of any such licensed club who shall sell or serve or distribute any spirituous, vinous or malt liquors to any person other than a non-resident guest or member of such club, for money or other value shall be deemed guilty of selling intoxicating liquors without a license and shall be punished as provided by law. Any officer of any such club which has not paid such license who shall knowingly permit such service or distri what 11 censed clubs entitled to. Duty of officers of such clubs. 1913 Penalty. Lawyers. Launches. Laundries; Livery and bles. bution by such club of intoxicating liquors to members or non-resident guests of such club for money or other value shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred ($500.00) dollars; Provided, That this section shall not apply to clubs incorporated or unincorporated, organized and used for the purpose of evading the payment of the license tax on dealers in spirituous, vinous and malt liquors as provided in this Act, but such club shall be subject to the payment of a license tax of one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars as in this Act specified. The President, Vice-President or Secretary and Treasurer or officers of corresponding duties by whatever name they may be called, of any club required by this section to pay a license tax shall be required to see that such license shall be paid, and in default thereof shall each be personally liable to the punishment provided by this Act for non-payment of the license required thereby. Section 33. Lawyers shall be required to pay a license tax of ten ($10.00) dollars each. Launches, Steam, Electric, or Naphtha, kept for hire or public use, shall be required to pay a license tax of five ($5.00) dollars for each launch with a capacity of twenty passengers or more, and two and one-half ($2.50) dollars for each launch with a capacity of less than twenty passengers. Laundries, owner or managers of steam laundries, or Chinese laundries, in cities of ten thousand inhabitants or over, shall pay a license tax of fifteen ($15.00) dollars. In cities and towns of less than ten thousand inhabitants shall pay a license tax of ten ($10.00) dollars. Livery and Feed Stables, individuals or firms keeping for hire or public use horses or mules for conveying passengers or freight, shall pay a license tax as follows: When not more than five head of horses or mules are kept or used, shall pay a license tax of five ($5.00) dollars. When more than five head and less than ten head of horses and mules are kept or used, shall pay a license tax of seven and one-half ($7.50) dollars. When ten head and less than twenty head of horses and mules are kept or used, shall pay a license tax of fifteen ($15.00) dollars. When twenty head and less than twenty-five head of horses and mules are kept or used, shall pay a license tax of twenty ($20.00) dollars. When twenty-five head or more are kept or used, shall pay a license tax of twenty-five ($25.00) dollars. 1913 bles. Sale stables shall pay a license tax of twenty-five Sale Sta($25.00) dollars. Lunch Lunch Stands, and Eating Houses at Railroad Depots: Stands: Owners or managers of, shall pay a license tax as follows: In cities and towns of twenty thousand inhabitants or more shall pay a license tax of fifty ($50.00) dollars. In cities and towns of less than twenty thousand and more than ten thousand inhabitants, shall pay a license tax of twenty-five ($25.00) dollars. In cities and towns of ten thousand and more than five thousand inhabitants, shall pay a license tax of fifteen ($15.00) dollars. In cities and towns of five thousand inhabitants or less, shall pay a license tax of five ($5.00) dollars. Lung Testers: When operated for profit, shall pay a license tax of five ($5.00) dollars for each machine or device. R.R. Eating Lung Test ers. Dealers. Lumber Dealers: Carrying a stock on hand and sell- Lumber ing at retail shall pay a license tax of fifteen ($15.00) dollars. Buying or selling on commission and (or) exporting, shall pay a license tax of twenty-five ($25.00) dollars. Locksmiths and Trunk Repairers: Who pay no other Locklicense shall pay a license tax of five ($5.00) dollars. Lightning Rods: Dealers in, shall pay a license tax of twenty-five ($25.00) dollars, when permanently located. Non-resident shall pay a license tax of fifty ($50.00) dollars in each county. smiths and Trunk Repairers. Lightning Rods. |