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• • • § 701.02 LICENSE REQUIRED. (1) General requirements. No person, except a wholesaler or manufacturer, to the extent authorized under state license, shall directly or indirectly deal in, sell or keep for sale in the city any intoxicating liquor without first obtaining a license to do so as provided in this chapter. Each license shall be issued for a maximum period of one year, expirinq on June 31 of each year. All licenses shall expire on the same date except temporary licenses that shall expire according to their terms. Liquor licenses shall be of-6 7 kinds: (a) On -sale; (b) On -sale wine; (c) Off -sale; (d) Club license; (e) Sunday on -sale; (f) Temporary set -up license; and (q) Temporary on -sale. EXPLANATION: ADDED LANGUAGE CLARIFIES OUR CITY'S LICENSING PERIOD. ADDED "TEMPORARY ON- SALE" LICENSE IS ONE THAT THE CITY SIGNS OFF ON BUT IT WAS MISSING FROM OUR ORDINANCE. For the purposes of this ordinance, the term "restaurant" is defined as an eating facility, other than a hotel, under the control of a single proprietor or manager, where meals are regularly prepared on the premises, where full waitress /waiter table service is provided, where a customer orders food from printed menus and where the main food course is served and consumed while seated at a single location. To be a restaurant as defined by this ordinance, an establishment shall have a license from the state as required by M.S. 157.16, as it may be amended from time to time, and meet the definition of either a "small establishment ", "medium establishment" or "large establishment" as defined in M.S. 157.16, subd. 3d, as it may be amended from time to time. An establishment which serves prepackaged food that receives heat treatment and is served in the package or frozen pizza that is heated and served, shall not be considered to be a restaurant for the purposes of this ordinance unless it meets the definitions of an establishment under M.S. 157.16. EXPLANATION: LEAGUE RECOMMENDS THAT THE TERM "RESTAURANT" BE DEFINED (2) On -sale license. On -sale licenses shall be issued only to hotels, clubs, restaurants, and exclusive liquor stores and shall permit on -sale of liquor only. (3) On -sale wine license. (a) On -sale wine licenses. On -sale wine license shall' be issued only to restaurants that