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Sec. 28-188. Right to limit or deny admission or service. • Within the designated area of a cafe, the operator holding a permit under this article shall have the right to limit access and occupancy to only bona fide paying customers of that operator's restaurant who are behaving in a lawful manner, and shall have the same right to deny admission or service as the operator exercises on his own premises. However, no person shall be denied access or service to the cafe area on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, ape or disability physieal-handicap. Sees. 28-189--28-210. Reserved. DIVISION 2. PERMIT Sec. 28-211. Required. Oa No person shall operate an outdoor cafe on a city sidewalk or the downtown pedestrian mall referred to in section 28-212 without a permit issued pursuant to this division. (b) City Council shall, from time to time, approve a map identifying the locations along the downtown pedestrian mall which will be eligible for use as outdoor cafe areas. The locations identified on this map shall be the only areas for which any cafe permit(s) may be issued by the zoning administrator for spaces on the mall. • (c)For the purposes of this division a "permit term" shall refer to the period from March 2002 through the last day of February, 2004; then, commencing on March 1, 2004, consecutive two- year periods thereafter. Sec. 28-212. Application. (aa) The operator of any licensed restaurant in the city may, on or before the commencement of each permit term apply to the ^'�uneil zoning administrator for a permit to operate an outdoor cafe on the city sidewalk contiguous to such restaurant, or in the case of a restaurant abutting the downtown pedestrian mall on Main Street between East Seventh Street and Ridge - McIntire Road, upon such a portion of the pedeStFi mall located within the same block as the restaurant and which has been designated by city as the council may on an approved map as being available and appropriate for use as an outdoor cafe area. designate in the pe b)Anv operator holding a valid nermit for a particular outdoor cafe space shall be deemed to have re-applied for a succeeding permit term. Such operator shall pay the required application fees and rent, and shall complete all paperwork required by the zoning administrator, within thirty (30) days of the commencement of the succeeding permit term. During such 30 -day period, the cafe space shall not be assigned to any other operator; however, if the incumbent operator fails to meet all requirements within the 30 -days, then the operator's permit shall expire and the City may deem that space to be unassigned. Unassigned spaces (those not subject to any existing permits) C]