While stressing that downtown Kissimmee bars will not have to close at midnight, city leaders Tuesday did pass a new ordinance requiring a special permit for them to sell alcohol after midnight starting Oct. 1.
Commissioners voted unanimously at Tuesday meeting to require businesses selling alcohol after midnight to obtain an annual $250 permit. Law enforcement can check off on it to make sure those businesses are compliant with other laws and ordinances.
Also Tuesday, the Commission voted in parts of another ordinance aimed at keeping noise in check. The noise ordinance’s “second first reading” — commissioners took it up at their July 1 meeting but tabled it for more study and discussion — had a number of parts, but commissioners only voted in to make first-time offenses subject to a written warning and second offenses a possible fine…