Republic’ of the Philippines
Quezon City
CITY CoUNCIL
PM88-291-4
ORDINANCE No. No-_85 , s_a9
ORDINANCE
CONSOLIDATING HE PROVISIONS oe JzquoR ORDINANCES a
INCORPORATING THE SAME INTO COMMO} REGULATORY MEAS
AND PROVIDING PENALATES FOR VIOLATION ‘THEREOF.
Introduced by Council:
Sponsored by Councilors George Cans:
A
Herrera, Melencio M. Castelo, Vicente D.
Piglang-awa, Dente V, Liban, Isidro fe
Saludes, Edgardo 8. Serrano} Mitchell Y.
Gumabao (Dennis Roldan), Jorge Le Banal,
Jose J. Faculdo, Elizabeth O. Gaba,
Eduarde F. David, Cielito "Hahei" t, Del
Mundo, Ricardo R. Del Rosario, Alfredo
A, Francisco (Fred Motilla), Hernicss
pButch" C, Bautista, Francis ’P. N.
Pangilinan end Guillermo C. Aliuna.
WEEREAS, in view of the absence of an ordinance
jReorperating ali ordinances regulating the sale of
jiquor or other intoxicating beverages any without
Beoney Tnscentifying the concerned local governoont
sgency thereot, there is difficulty in implementing
Provisions of said ordinances;
+, Sas Unsentinedbed étepesal of Liquor or
intoxicating ‘beverages within the promised radius
has contributed immensely to the alarming incidence
of Juvenile delinquency end criminality fame: City;
ee -—— not
effectively checked would Gisrupt the morals, under-
mine public order and the stability of state;
WHEREAS, there is urgent nece, sity to reinforce
the drive against alcoholism in the City;
mig eas), 211 taxes and tees due the City fron
the sale of liquor and intoxicating beverages are
By the gine Properly and fully collected Sen trope
by the City is losing plenty of revenue from the
source.wo- 85 | g.a9 |
NOW, THEREFORE,
Be it ordained by the City Council of Quezon City
in session assembled:
SECTION 1. 11 provisions of liquor ordinances
$f Quezon City are hereby consolidated and incorponsted
into common regulatory measure.
SECTION 24 Declaration of policy - It is the
policy of the Citys
1s To regulate the welli: serving
and dispensing of liquor and/on
intoxicating deverag:
2. To regulate the establishment and
gperation of the liquer business
‘the City;
3- To lessen criminality, the pre-
servation of peace and
to upgrade operation standards
of busine, ablishmexts, mam~
fac’ cing, éistliling,
$plling, Serving ‘snd’ dispensing
liquor "and/or intoxicating beve—
rages;
4. To provide for the collection of
fees and constituting law-
ful source of revenues or income;
5+ To prohibit and penalize intoxi—
cation: and other species of dis-
orderly conduct or disturbance of
peace; and
6. To compel operaters of amusenent
laces, eate
3 to, Ly obi ‘and comply
es to properly observe and c
With the voeulvecente ee law, or
es and directive regulating
business operations,
SEOTION 3. Definition - For Purpose
Ordinance the terms:
as Liquor or intexicating beverages
shell include any alcoholic drink
containing a specific percentage
of alcohol by volume. or weigh
whieh may be in the form of whisky,
brandy, gin, rum, cordial, liquor, |
coektali, wine, champagne’ yereorth |
basi, tuba, saki, beer, ale, stout |
and Others;
of thisOrd. No. no _85.,-3.39
d. Licensee - « person, partnership,
firm or corporation authorized to
engage in the business of manufac-
tring, producing, selling or ser-
ving Uuor or intoxicating beve-
rages;
ec. Serving - To furnish, set out, sup-
Ply, provide or extend to persons
the facility to drink or consume
liquor or intoxicating beverages
the premises of the Licensee;
as Acatenic Behool = Inchutes those
offe: euentary, sc
and college couress' chased See as
academic by the Secretary of Educe-
tion, Culture and Sports, excluding
schools offering hair selence, dress-
making, dancing, radio sutomechanic,
telegraphy and other ‘vocation courses;
~ refers te any place,
building or strueture of
designated as such by the Cty Govern-
nent including public streets, side
walks, plazas, parks, theaters and
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SECTION 4, Establishments Entitled te Liquor
Licenses ~ Subject to the provisions of Section 6 hereof,
galy establishments as follows may be issued a liquor
censet
Yor Retailing/Wholesaling ~ Duly permitted and
licensed ‘ablishnents doing retail and/er wholesale
of general merchandise or those which sell solely liquor
‘or intoxicating beverages;
For serving/dispensing of liquor and/or intoxicating
Ddeverag.
4. Nightclubs
2. Bere/Cocktail/Lounges
3. Beer Houses/Gardens
4. Publiouses
6. Restaurants
7+ Membership/Sports Clubs
For Manufacturers/Distilleries/Producers - 421
Setablishments manufacturing, distillings or producing
liquor and/or intoxicating beverages.
SECTION 5. Payment of Taxes and Fees ~ The rates
of taxes as provided for under the existing Me litan
Manila Revenue Code No. 82-03, as amended by MMC Ord. Now
83-02, is hereby adopted to be imposed for all permit/Pag!
Ord. No. NC- 85, 5-89
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license to be issued by the City Government. However,
a filing fee for all applications for a permit to sell
liquor shall be paid as follows:
Retailer
Wholesaler
Serving/Di
SECTION 6.
License ~ Cont:
‘spen:
Nanufacturer/Distillers/
ucers
- 740.00
20,
= 100.00
Conditions for the exercise of Liquor
6 exercise: of the liquor depends ~
‘Anuows
on the follewing conditions:
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ce
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SECTION 7.
That the Licensee shall undertake
and provide measures to suppress
disorderly conduct and disturbance
of the place due te liquor used;
Tat liquer shall be sold or served
only to persons 18 years of age or
over, and in case of doubt, the li-
Censee shall demand proof of age;
That the licenses, shall hot allow
his place of business or establish-
ment to be haven of hoodlums and
women of ill-repute;
That the licensee shall not violate
any provision of this Ordinances
Prescribed Sign - Every liquer licensee
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shall be required to put up a prescribed sign bei
the words "Authorized Ligquar Dealer" A a ©:
no which shall not be less than three (3)
the cerresp.
expiry date of the same clearly
SECTION 8.
Idquor License i
ssued to 8 person eng:
tall with
number of the permit/license and the
Tndieated underneath:
Exhibition of Liquor Idcense ~ The
ed in liquor
business shall kept conspicuously exhibited in plain
view or at the place where the business is conducted.
SECTION 9.
Prohibited Areas - No liquor license
shall be issued to any person, partnership, firm or
corporation, whose place where business isi
ae
be
Bars cocktail lounges, pub-
houses, beer gardens, ‘and other
smusement places within a radius
of fifty (50) meters from an
academic school, church, hospital
or public building,
Night clubs, Cabarets - within
a radius of two hundred (200)
meters from an academic school,
church, hospital or public
building.Ord. No. No-_85 , 5-89
Page —5~
Ce Mamufacturers, distillers, pro-
ducers - within residential
areas of the City.
Provided, However, that amusement establishments men-
tion in tems @ and b already existing before the
erection of any academic school, churoh, hospital or
public building shall not be covered by the prohibition,
SECTION 10. Hotels and Other Tourist Oriented
Establishment ~ Notwithstanding the preceding section,
hotels and other tourist oriented establishments duly
licensed and registered with the Department of Tourism
wherever they are located may be granted liquor license.
SECTION 11. Prohibited Time - No licensed Jiquor
dealer shall sell or serve liquor before 8:00 A.M, and
past 10:00 P.M.. However, Special Permit may de issued
ro aerment of an aanval permit fee in the amount of
usand Pesos (P2,000,00) te a qualified estab—
lishment to be allowed’ to sell liquor past 10:00 P.M..
it shall be unlawful for any person to sell, buy
and/or otherwise diverse of any kind of hard drinks or
liquor in sari~sari stere within the jurisdiction
of Quezon ne from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 A.M. of the
following day.
ee 12. croces Bours: When srieetol to Sell. F
etc. = saloons, bars and er, drinking plac ‘shal:
be allowed to remaln open to the public eve: ine
cluding Sundays, except from 2:00 A.M. until 810d Act.
unlawful for any person to sell, give avey,
or otherwise dispose of any fermented malt, visous, fox
ritous lor other intoxicating liquore between the
above-mentioned hours except as herein provided; But
the words "give away", where they occur in this erdi.
pence, shall not apply to the giving away of intesieating
liguer by a person in his private dwelling unless such
vate dwellings shall become a place of public resort;
Provided, “hoverse, that 2 oecc es tee s2 ‘also licensed
to operate a restaurant, cafe or refreshnents parlor,
it may remain open 4 the prohibited heurs unle;
prohibited by inw of: e but only to serve meals,
vith or without refreshments, or nom-intexioatiag Liquors
or drinks: Provided, further, that a store, place on
establishments other then bars or saloons, Licensed ro
sell, or give away alcoholic beverages or liquers of
any kind, ‘shall be subject to the same limitations
to days and hours of operation as herein prescribed for
bars.
SECTION 13. Evidence of Illegel Sale — Drinking
of liquor or intoxicat beverages within the premises
of any store or establishment which is not a d&
licensed liquor deader shall be evidence of the illegal
sale or disposal or such liquor or intoxieating beves
rages by such store er establishment.
It shall be unlawful for 227 person or persons to
conduct or maintain any saloon, ber, or drinking place
without first having obtained a license therefor, aseerie in this StLtareotd einer be Srp ead
ny employee or agent to sell or give away liquor when
no, license has been issued to his principal author
izing the same.
SECTION 14, Amusement in Saloons and Disorder,
Intoxication and Adulterated Idquer: Forbidden, = It
shall be unlawful to conduct er operate or permit to be
Conducted or operate any gambling device, slot machine,
billiard or pool teble in saloons, bars or drinking
aces.
It shall be unlawful for the holder of license
herein provided for, to maintain but a clean, quiet and
orderly place, or sell or serve or permit tobe sold
or served any adulterated liquor or intoxieating person
or to permit such persons to be or remain er about the
Premises where such liquors are kept for sale or to
poll therein any wine, beer or liquor, except mich as
Gh good standard qual!
‘ty and free from adulteration,
+ - No license
intextsating liguers in public maskets
booths, or stand mituated in the public places’
P! or to street vendors or peddlers, or in any
nse, to an establishment located within a raiiue oF
firty (50) meters from any academic schools
SEGRION 16. Idquors of Domestic Mamfaetures
When sale of, May be bited. ~ Whenever in the
opin the Mayor, after due investigation, any lia
quer or domestic manufacture being sold by any bay,
seloen; or other establishment is adultersted or other
wise injurious to health, he may prohibit the sale
thereof, reveke the correspending license, and orier
‘the establishment closed; Provided, that in case the
4 sale of other liquors, she
business to convime but the license
shall bear a notation thereon to be made by the City
Mayor or his authorized representative, to the effest
$hat the seme does net cover the sale of th bited
liquors or e. But any such adulteration made
er caused to be made by the owner or operator or the
establishment shall be penalized as in this ordinance
provided.
It shall be unlawful for erson to be drunk *
or intoxicated, or while in any public plese or placesOrd. No, Now_85 ; 5.89
Eras Hee Nom_GS
open'to public view, to behave in a drunken, boister
ous, rude or indecent manner in lace or premises
within the jurlediction of queses 1Aby, to the ennoy=
ance and inconvenience of another person.
SECTION 18,. Prohibition to Minors. —- Persons
below 18 years of age are hereby prohibited te drink or
axe” ed malty. Lntericsting: Liquors, inclading
Beer, taeent sees beverages in Seateurenter tere
steres, saloons, pavillions and other eimisr sleses
in Quezon City where such liquors are served of setts
of any owner or operator of
saloon, pavilien and ether
such liquors are
y the letters'of which shall
¢ en tall, relative to the
said prohibitions in a conspicuous place.
Tdkewise, it shall be unlawful for any operater
to allow such’persons below 18 years of sge in night
clubs, bars, or other night spots in Queron City shich
sf ‘taxi dene the
shall not apply during p:
days, civic and school Betal
vices of hostesses or taxi dancers are
such occasions,
Puployaent of hostess or taxi dancer called for
under 8 ordinance shall not take place unless a
health certificate of examination issued by. a govern~
ans. physician that the applicant is free. from ‘venereal
seases.
SECTION 19, Transfer of license must be author
ized: Fee. ~ No license shall be transferred frem ene
Person to another or from one place te anether except
by written euthority of the Mayor, and no transfer
all be made which jnvolves the addition of privileges,
For all authorized tranéfers ten percentum (10%) ef
the original license fee and a new permit fee shall
de collected.
SECTION 20, Charges and Fees for Regulation, -
charges and fees imposed by this ordinance are
essentially for purpose of regulation. A liquer license
who pays the annual charges and fe: under this re~
story measure is not exempted frem the payment of
Fayor's Permit fees and jas License taxes provided
under the Quezon City Revenue Code,
SECTION 21. Offenses on Officers and ae
ae oye
led, that ser
not engaged on
Every officer, mt er loyee of the Oi: overnnent:
charged with the enforcenent or exsortion te sie Pro-
YAsions of this Ordinance, who ie gullty of
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queney herein below indicated shall bi
fine ef not less than One Thou:
sonment for not less than
fine er imprisonment at the diiPage -8-
de
» for the performance of any duty;
Ce
fe
&e
SECTION 22,
provisions of this Ordinance
shall be apable bye fine of not more than Five
Hundred Pesos (P500,00) er imprisonment at the dis-
eretién of the Court.
If the vielation is committed’ by a firm, corpo-
coon er pe te
charg e
and the managing
SECTION 23,
addition to the
Ord. No. NO-_85, ssag
penalty imposed for the vielgtion of
any Provision of this
with it the confiscation and forfeiture of
deverages in faver of the City Government of Quezon City.
Those guilty of extortion or
willful oppresion under color
of law;
Those who knowingly demand
other or greater sums than what
is autherized by lew or receive
any fee, compensation or reward,
except or as prescribed by law,
Those who willfully neglect to
give receipts for any cum
Gollected.in the performance of,
ect to
Pof the duties en=
8 Ordinance;
Those who will:
tuni’
Those who conspire or celiude
with another to defraud gn applicant,
a jiconsee of the goveratenty or
otherwise violate the provisions
of this ordinano
Those who ently or signedly
perait the wolstion of ten tee by
any other person;
Those who, without the authority
of law, demand or accept er ate
Feagt to cdliect, directly of
rectly, as payment er ether
whee, any Sun of ny
xr the compremise,
adjustment or settlenent of any
charge or complaint for any
violation or alleged vislation
of existing ordinance,
Penalty. ~ Any violation of the
ent Bection 21 hereef,
ship, the er of any other person.
Manggenont of the fire or copperetien
partner’ shall be c: Tables
Confiscation and Forfeiture. = In
Ordinance, the same shall carry
: all alcoholic
WS,ON 2h, 2 Clause. - obrtinance Nos.
a “eens $333" eas 6957, 8-67; 7 eels
8-67; §-56; 2598, 8-56; 2358,
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