§ 3. Hotels, Restaurants, etc.

(a)

No such limitation of the number of licenses as herein provided shall be applicable to any hotel of not less than one hundred guest rooms or to any restaurant containing all necessary equipment and supplies for, and serving full course meals regularly and having accommodations for service of two hundred or more patrons at tables and occupying more than four thousand square feet of space; provided, however, that any licenses heretofore or hereafter issued to any such hotels or restaurants under the provisions of any law shall not be moved to a new location, such licenses being valid only on the premises of such hotel or restaurant, and provided further that licenses issued to hotels or restaurants under the general law and held by such hotels or restaurants on May 24, 1947, shall be counted in the quota limitations contained in section 1 hereof.

(b)

No such limitation of the number of licenses as herein provided shall be applicable to operators of railroads, sleeping cars, steamships, buses and airplanes obtaining licenses good throughout the State of Florida, under the Beverage Law of the State of Florida, or to nonprofit chartered or incorporated clubs, including social clubs, and caterers at horse or dog racing plants as defined in the Beverage Law of the State of Florida.

(Laws of Fla. ch. 31098(1955), § 3)