File #: O-10-23    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Adopted
File created: 3/9/2023 In control: City Council
On agenda: 10/23/2023 Final action: 10/23/2023
Title: Allowing Cigar Lounges to Serve Alcoholic Beverages - For the purpose of creating a definition of Cigar Lounge as a unique category of Tobacco Shop; and allowing cigar lounges to serve alcoholic beverages in conjunction with the consumption of premium cigars, pipe tobacco, and related products; and generally related to tobacco shops.
Sponsors: Elly Tierney, Gavin Buckley, Brooks Schandelmeier, Sheila Finlayson
Indexes: Economic Matters Committee, Planning Commission, Rules and City Government Committee
Attachments: 1. O-10-23 First Reader, 2. O-10-23 Staff Report, 3. O-10-23 Fiscal Impact Note, 4. O-10-23 The Capital Public Hearing Notice Affidavit, 5. O-10-23 Signed (color), 6. O-10-23 Signed (b&w)
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Allowing Cigar Lounges to Serve Alcoholic Beverages - For the purpose of creating a definition of Cigar Lounge as a unique category of Tobacco Shop; and allowing cigar lounges to serve alcoholic beverages in conjunction with the consumption of premium cigars, pipe tobacco, and related products; and generally related to tobacco shops.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Ordinance 10-23

Introduced by: Alderwoman Tierney
Co-sponsored by: Mayor Buckley, Alds. Schandelmeier, Finlayson
Referred to:
Planning Commission
Economic Matters Committee
Rules and City Government Committee

AN ORDINANCE concerning

Allowing Cigar Lounges to Serve Alcoholic Beverages

FOR For the purpose of creating a definition of Cigar Lounge as a unique category of Tobacco Shop; and allowing cigar lounges to serve alcoholic beverages in conjunction with the consumption of premium cigars, pipe tobacco, and related products; and generally related to tobacco shops.

BY repealing and reenacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2023 Edition
7.12.010
7.12.250
21.64.150
21.72.010

SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:

Title 7 - BUSINESS LICENSES, TAXES AND REGULATIONS
Chapter 7.12 - Alcoholic Beverages
Section 7.12.010 - Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases have the meanings indicated:
A. "Alcoholic beverage" means alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum, gin, beer, ale, porter, stout, wine and cider, and in addition, any spirituous, vinous, malt or fermented liquor, liquids and compounds, by whatever name called, containing one-half of one percent or more of alcohol by volume, which are fit for beverage purposes. "Alcoholic beverage" does not include (1) wine and cider manufactured for home consumption and which are not sold for the maker or manufacturer, nor by the maker or manufacture...

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