Number
241661
Version
SUBSTITUTE 2
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. BURGELIS, ZAMARRIPA, MOORE, TAYLOR AND WESTMORELAND
Title
A substitute ordinance relating to the licensing of hookah establishments.
Sections
108-3-2.7 cr
108-3-6 am
Analysis
The ordinance adds establishments offering hookah service to the list of entities requiring a public entertainment premises license.
Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:
Part 1. Section 108-3-2.7 of the code is created to read:
108-3. Definitions.
2.7. HOOKAH SERVICE means the rental or complimentary use of a hookah provided by an establishment. A hookah is any recreational water pipe used to inhale heated or vaporized substances, including, but not limited to, non-tobacco shisha.
Part 2. Section 108-3-6 of the code is amended to read:
6. PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT means any entertainment of any nature or description to which the public generally may gain admission, either with or without the payment of a fee. Any entertainment operated commercially for gain by membership, season ticket, invitation or other system open or offered to the public generally shall be deemed to constitute a public entertainment. This definition includes dances, dancing by patrons to prerecorded or live music, dancing by performers for or without compensation, shows and exhibitions provided for a fee including plays, skits, musical revues, children’s theater, dance productions, musical concerts, opera and the production or provision of sights or sounds or visual or auditory sensations which are designed to or may divert, entertain or otherwise appeal to members of the public who are admitted to a place of entertainment, which is produced by any means, including radio, phonograph, jukebox, television, video reproduction, tape recorder, piano, orchestra or band or any other musical instrument, slide or movie projector, spotlights, or interruptible or flashing light devices and decoration. This term includes a carnival, festival, >>establishment offering hookah service,<< motion picture house or theater and, when offered to the public for a fee, bowling, billiard tables or amusement machines as defined in s. 107-13.
Part 3. This ordinance is effective 90 days after passage and publication.
LRB
APPROVED AS TO FORM
K. Broadnax
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Legislative Reference Bureau
Date: April 22, 2025
Attorney
IT IS OUR OPINION THAT THE ORDINANCE
IS LEGAL AND ENFORCEABLE
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Office of the City Attorney
Date: ______________________
Requestor
Drafter
Kathleen Brengosz
LRB180121-4
4/21/2025