Statesboro’s new Alcoholic Beverages Ordinance, most provisions of which take effect Friday, requires that owners of bars and restaurants maintain order in and around their establishments or risk probationary measures or revocation of their licenses. But the ordinance gives City Council more flexibility, instead of prescribing license suspensions for certain numbers of violations, as the old ordinance did. These were points Mayor Jan Moore and City Attorney Alvin Leaphart emphasized last week when a renewed discussion of the ordinance with bar and restaurant owners focused on a section that restricts drink specials.
New alcohol ordinance takes effect Friday
Bars allowed in Boro; owners required to keep order