§ 4-15. Location of business limited.

(a)

No permit shall be granted under this chapter in contravention of any parish ordinance adopted pursuant to the zoning laws or the state or provisions of the parish charter.

(b)

The council may enact ordinances to prohibit the conduct of alcoholic beverage businesses within a certain distance of a parish or private playground or a building used exclusively as a regular church, public library, school, or child day care/nursery. No permit shall be issued in contravention of any such ordinance. The prohibition may not extend more than five hundred (500) feet from the church, library, school, playground or child day care/nursery. The measurement of this distance shall be made as a person walks from the nearest point of the property line of the church, library, playground, school or child day care/nursery to the nearest point of the premises to be licensed.

(Ord. No. 103, § 14, 6-12-69; Ord. No. 94-57, § 1, 2-24-94)

State law reference

Similar provisions, R.S. 26:80, R.S. 26:280.