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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY ORDINANCE NO. 85-2 AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 2, "ALCO- HOLIC BEVERAGES" OF THE COUNTY'S CODE OF LAWS AND ORDI- NANCES; REPEALING SECTION 2-2 REGARDING ZONES FOR SALE; PROVIDING FOR DISTANCES OF VENDORS FROM CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS; RENUMBERING OF SECTION 2-4; CODIFICATION; SEVERABILITY; REPEAL OF CONFLICTING PROVISIONS; AND EFFECTIVE DATE. Be it ordained by the Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County, Florida, that: SECTION 1 Section 2-2, Zones for Sale Established; of the Code of Laws and Ordinances is hereby repealed in its entirety; and Section 2-3 is renumbered as Section 2-2 and amended and reenacted in its entirety as follows: Section 2-2, Distances of Vendors from Church or School. A. The following separation distances shall be required between alcohol sales establishments and any church or school -in the County. (1) Alcohol sales establishments where on -premises consumption of alcohol is permitted shall not locate within 1000 feet of an established church or school. (2) Alcohol sales establishments where on -premises consumption is not permitted shall not locate within 500 feet of an established church or school. Alcohol vendors licensed under para- graph (a) of subsection (1) of Chap. 563.02 of the Florida Statutes are exempt from this provision (vendors of alcoholic malt beverages commonly known as beer for off -premises consump- tion only). B. This required separation distance shall be measured by following the shortest route of ordinary pedes- trian travel along the public thoroughfare from the main entrance of such place of business to the main entrance of the church and, in the case of a school, to the nearest point of the school grounds in use as part of the school facilities except: (1) Where such established church or school is within the limits of an incorporated city or town and the applicant for such license is outside such incorporated city or town and outside any other incorporated city or town, then and in that event, the place of business of such vendor in the county may be the same or a greater distance from such church or school as is required by the ordinance of the incorporated city or town wherein such church or school is located. (2) Should a church or school be established after the establishment of a place of business of any vendor for the sale of alcoholic beverages, the subsequently established church or school shall not affect the location of the place of business of any such vendor nor shall it affect a subsequent renewal or transfer of any license of such a vendor.