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• • • Liquor Licensing (2) Delinquent taxes and charges. No license shall be granted for operation on any premises for which taxes, assessments or other financial claims of the city are delinquent and unpaid. (3) Distance from school or church. No license shall be granted within 1,000 feet of any school or within 1,000 feet of any church. The distance shall be measured from the main entrance of the school or church to the main entrance of the applicant's place of business. (a) For the purposes of the separation restriction in this division, a school is a building that is principally used as a place where 25 or more persons receive a full course of educational instruction and the educational instruction is provided on a daily basis by an established school board or church. This does not include any post- secondary or post -high school educational building, including any college or any vocational - technical college. Nor does the separation apply to a daycare or early childhood facility, where children typically are under constant supervision while at the facility and when traveling to and from the facility. (b) The establishment of a school or church within the separation distance after an original liquor license application has been granted shall not, in and of itself, render the premises ineligible for renewal of the license. (Prior Code, § 701.07) (Am. Ord. 13 -99, passed 6 -14 -1999) § 701.08 CONDITIONS OF THE LICENSE. (1) General. Every license is subject to the conditions in the following divisions and all other provisions of this chapter, and of any other applicable ordinance, state law, or regulation. (2) Licensee responsibility. Every licensee shall be responsible for the conduct of his or her place of business and the conditions of sobriety and order in it. The act of any employee on the licensed premises authorized to sell intoxicating liquor there is deemed the act of the licensee as well, and the licensee shall be liable to all penalties provided by ordinance, statute, or regulation equally with the employee. (3) Inspections. Every licensee shall allow any peace officer, health officer or properly designated officer or employee of the city to enter, inspect, and search the licensed premises during business hours without a warrant. (4) Display hours. No on -sale establishment shall display liquor to the public during hours when the sale of liquor is prohibited. (5) Federal stamps. No licensee shall possess a federal wholesale liquor dealers special tax stamp or a federal gambling stamp. (6) Minors on Premises. No person under the age of 18 years shall be employed in any rooms constituting the place in which liquors are sold at retail on sale, except that persons under the age of 18 may be employed as musicians or to perform the duties of a bus person, host or