West Feliciana

West Feliciana Parish is a Wet Parish

Town: St. Francisville
Unincorporated community: Wakefield

Hours of Operation - Sunday Sales - Location Regulations -

Closing Hours:
Any person, business or firm licensed to and selling, serving or dispensing alcoholic beverages at retail under this chapter shall be closed during the following hours:

• Between the hours of 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. weekdays and Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve when those days fall on Sunday.
• Between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. Sunday
• Between the hours of midnight Sunday to 6:00 a.m. Monday

In addition to these restrictions, any permittee licensed from the provisions of R.S. 51:191, by the provisions of L.R.S. 51:192, may remain open for the sale of items permitted by L.R.S. 51:192.

Restaurants, grocery stores, drug stores, or other businesses exempted from the provisions of R.S. 51:191 by the provisions of L.R.S. 51:192, may remain open for the sale of items permitted by L.R.S. 51:192.

Location Regulations:
No permit shall be granted for any premises situated within 500 feet or less, as fixed by the ordinance, of a public playground or a building occupied exclusively as a church or synagogue, public library, school, full-time day care center or a correctional facility housing inmates, including but not limited to a halfway house.

Municipal of St. Francisville Ordinances

Legal Hours of Operation - Sunday Sales - Location Regulations - Taking Open Containers from Premises - Open Containers - Serving Permits

Closing Hours:

Any person licensed to and selling, serving or dispensing alcoholic beverages at retail shall be closed during the following hours: Between the hours of 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. weekdays. Between the hours of 2:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. Sundays. Between the hours of midnight Sunday to 6:00 a.m. Monday.

Restaurants, grocery stores, drug stores, or other businesses exempted from the provisions of R.S. 51:191, by the provisions of R.S. 51:192, may remain open for the sale of items permitted by R.S. 51:192.

Location Regulations:

No class A or class B liquor permits shall be issued by the municipality for places of business in the following areas of the Town of St. Francisville, and no alcoholic beverages shall be sold therein pursuant to a class A or class B liquor permit: Any area having historic significance, such areas being defined as follows: (1) Areas recognized as having historic significance by the United States Department of the Interior and entered into the National Register of Historic Places pursuant to the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, which areas are more specifically defined as Ferdinand Street, Sewell Street, and Royal Street; and/or (2) Any area zoned historic district by the municipality. Certain exceptions apply for Class AR restaurant liquor permits.

No permit shall be granted for any premises situated within 300 feet of any public playground, ball park, hospital, or of a building used exclusively as a church, synagogue, public library or school, except a business college. Certain exceptions apply.

Taking Open Containers from Premises:

It shall be unlawful for any person to remove any opened drinking containers containing alcoholic beverages of high or low alcoholic content in or upon the parking lot or other property belonging to any premises licensed to sell beverages of high or low alcoholic content pursuant to a Class B liquor license or pursuant to a Class A liquor license after the business establishment is closed.

Open Containers:

It shall be unlawful for any person to remove an opened container containing alcoholic beverages from any duly licensed business, lounge, restaurant or other establishment licensed to sell the same pursuant to a Class B liquor license or pursuant to a Class A liquor license after the business establishment is closed.

Serving Permits:

No person shall be employed in a bar, lounge, or other business establishment which has a class A retail liquor permit as a waitress, waiter, or bartender, or employed in any capacity mixing and/or serving alcoholic beverages, including beer without first having applied for and received a permit from the municipality to be so employed. All applications for this permit shall be in writing and sworn to, and shall contain the full name of the applicant, the applicant's correct home address and last previous address, the applicant's driver's license number and social security number, and an accurate name or description and address of the business premises where employed.