SECTION 45:20-3-1. Restriction on location of licensed premises

  All premises used for the sale of alcoholic beverage by a Retail Spirit licensee shall be located on the street level or ground floor. No entrance for the use of the public to such premises shall be located on a public or private alley. All entrances for the use of the public shall open immediately into the room used for retail sales purposes; PROVIDED, that no customers may be permitted to enter or leave the shopping area of a retail spirit store through a door which is not in full view of a public street or highway, except stores situated adjacent to, or opening into hotel or motel lobbies, public passageways in arcades and other buildings through which the public is permitted to pass at all times between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 12:00 a.m. of each day, and then only after written permission is obtained from the Commission or Director.

[Source: Amended at 35 Ok Reg 827, eff 10-1-18]