§ 4-1. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Administrator means the parish administrator of Caddo Parish, Louisiana.

Alcoholic beverage manufacturer means any natural person or other entity recognized by the law as being a legal entity, with legal capacity to contract, to sue and be sued, who, directly or indirectly, personally or through any agency, engages in the making, blending, rectifying, or other processing of alcoholic beverages in the parish.

Dealer means any natural person or other entity recognized by law as being a legal entity, with legal capacity to contract, to sue and be sued, who deals in alcoholic beverages as herein defined.

Dealing in alcoholic beverages means that the natural person or other entity recognized by the law as being a legal entity, engages, as a business, to manufacture, blend, rectify, distill, process, import, transport, store, use, handle, hold, sell, offer for sale, solicit orders for the sale of, distribute, deliver, serve, or allow any person to consume alcoholic beverages on the premises.

Premises means the closed or partitioned-in locality, whether room, shop or building wherein the alcoholic beverage is sold; except where such beverages are regularly sold or served outside the building, the term shall also include such outside area.

The definitions set forth in R.S. 26:1 (Alcohol Beverage Control Law—Definitions) and R.S. 26:241 (Alcohol Beverage Control and Taxation—Definitions), as amended, shall be effective as definitions of the words, terms and phrases used in this chapter. All words, terms and phrases used herein, other than those specifically defined elsewhere in this chapter, shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them in R.S. 26:1 and R.S. 26:241, as amended, and shall have the same scope and effect that the same words, terms and phrases have where used in R.S. 26:1 and R.S. 26:241, as amended.

(Code 1976, § 3-1; Code 1985, § 3-1; Ord. No. 3959, 11-2-2001)

State law reference

Similar provisions, R.S. 26:241.