File #: O-42-22    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Adopted
File created: 7/1/2022 In control: Finance Committee
On agenda: 9/12/2022 Final action: 9/12/2022
Title: Business License, Taxes and Regulations - Street Caf? - For the purpose of clarifying the definition of street caf?s
Sponsors: Gavin Buckley
Indexes: Finance Committee
Attachments: 1. O-42-22 First Reader, 2. O-42-22 Staff Report, 3. O-42-22 Fiscal Impact Note, 4. O-42-22 Amendment 1, 5. O-42-22 Signed

Title

Business License, Taxes and Regulations - Street Café - For the purpose of clarifying the

definition of street cafés

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CITY COUNCIL OF THE

                     City of Annapolis

                     Ordinance 42-22

 

                     Introduced by: Mayor Buckley

                     Co-sponsored by:

 

                     Referred to

                     Finance Committee

 

                     AN ORDINANCE concerning

 

                     BUSINESS LICENSES, TAXES AND REGULATIONS - Street Café

 

                     FOR                     the purpose of clarifying the definition of street cafés

 

                     BY                     repealing and reenacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City

                     of Annapolis, 2022 Edition

                     7.42.010

                     

                     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 7.43 - STREET CAFÉS

7.42.010 - Sidewalk café-Defined-Permit required

 

D. For purposes of this chapter, "sidewalk café" means any area situated on a public

                     sidewalk, and, as authorized by a lease with the City, any adjoining public street, where

                     food, refreshments, and/or beverages are sold by a restaurant, delicatessen, ice cream

                     shop or coffee shop (hereinafter "operating establishment") for public consumption at

                     tables or counters located on the sidewalk fronting the operating establishment. Sidewalk

                     cafés shall operate only as authorized pursuant to this chapter. any area on the public

                     sidewalk:

 

                     1. adjacent to a food service business where food and/or beverages may be

                     consumed at tables and chairs whether the food and/or beverages are purchased

                     at the table or inside the adjacent city-licensed food service business,

 

                     2. that is permitted by the city to be a sidewalk café section of the public walkway.

 

                     E. SIDEWALK CAFÉS SHALL OPERATE ONLY AS AUTHORIZED PURSUANT

                     TO THIS CHAPTER.

 

                     SECTION II:                     AND BE IT FURTHER ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE

                     ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that this ordinance shall take effect from the date of its passage.

 

 

                     Explanation:

                     UPPERCASE indicates matter added to existing law.

                     Strikethrough indicates matter stricken from existing law.

                     Underlining indicates amendments.