§ 9:1000. Licenses required for businesses and employees.

(a)

Licenses required. No person, firm, corporation or association of persons shall engage in any business or employment described in section 9:1000 or 9:1003, without first obtaining the necessary licenses and permits required hereunder, including all state and local permits.

(b)

Qualifying beverages and businesses. Any person, firm, corporation or association of persons who, as a business or as a means of employment, manufactures, blends, rectifies, distills, processes, imports, stores, uses, handles, holds, sells, offers for sale, solicits orders for the sale of, distributes, delivers, serves or transports any beer, porter, ale, fruit juices, wine, or spirituous beverages of an alcoholic content not exceeding that now or hereafter permitted by law, but greater than one-half (½) of one (1) percent of alcohol by volume, or, any malt, vinous, spirituous, alcoholic or intoxicating liquors containing more than six (6) percent of alcohol by volume, within the limits of the parish, shall be deemed a retail dealer, or wholesale dealer, or a classified employee, as the case may be, for all purposes of this chapter. All such persons must hold all applicable local and state permits, pursuant to title 26 and the wine, beer and liquor ordinance.

(c)

Wholesale dealer required to verify retail license before delivery. No wholesale dealer shall dispense or sell to any retail dealer any of the beverages described in subsection 9:1000(b), unless the retail dealer has procured and has posted in a conspicuous place in his establishment, the permit/license required in this chapter. Every wholesaler shall, at the time of shipping or delivering such beverages to a retailer, make a true duplicate invoice of each such shipment showing full and complete details of the sale or delivery, and shall include on such invoice the city or parish license/permit number. No wholesaler shall dispense, sell or deliver to any retail dealer until the wholesaler has been furnished the retail dealer's city or parish license/permit number.

(d)

Establishment operated as a retail dealer. Any person, firm, corporation, or association of persons, who conducts an establishment as a business where any of the beverages mentioned in subsection 9:1000(b) of this chapter are stored, used, consumed, handled, sold, given away or otherwise disposed of, shall be considered as conducting such establishment as a retail dealer for all purposes of this chapter, and shall pay the same license tax as that required of a retail dealer selling for use or consumption on or off the licensed premises.

(Ord. No. 15405, § 1, 10-24-12; Ord. No. 15425, § 1, 12-12-12)