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Powder Springs will allow alcohol sales on Christmas
The Powder Springs City Council voted 4-1 Monday to allow the selling and serving of alcoholic beverages on Christmas Day among other changes to the city’s alcoholic beverage law. AJC file photo
Now alcoholic beverages may be sold and served in Powder Springs on Christmas Day.
The Powder Springs City Council voted 4-1 Monday to allow the selling and serving of distilled spirits, wine and malt beverages on Christmas but no packaged distilled spirits still on Thanksgiving.
Councilwoman Nancy Hudson said she voted her opposition because “restaurants could serve on Christmas Day.”
Other changes in the city’s alcohol laws in Ordinance 2017-12 are:
- Veterans who were discharged "under conditions other than honorable" may apply to sell alcoholic beverages when they were not allowed to do so before.
- An applicant for an alcoholic beverage license will have to be a U.S. citizen or possess a valid U.S. government-issued I-551 card but no longer be "a resident alien" or "a legal alien" for at least one year.
- Percentage of food to be served would be 30 percent and no longer 50 percent where alcoholic beverages are served.
- Alcohol license holders will have 12 months, instead of six months, to open their businesses.
- Within seven days, changes "in owners, agents, licensees or their addresses, their marriage status or any changes in the operation of the business" will need to be reported to the city instead of "as soon as reasonably practicable after such changes" or else the license will be void.
Information: CityOfPowderSprings.org/DocumentCenter/View/4311, see Ordinance 2017-12.
