PROVIDENCE — The city Board of Licenses has fined a Downcity restaurant and a South Providence nightclub for infractions of state and municipal laws, one of which involved the restaurant illegally using an upstairs space for a party.

Richard H. Aitchison, city license administrator, said yesterday the board has imposed a $750 fine on Bravo Brasserie, 202 Washington St., in Downcity, for throwing a party with a deejay spinning records for entertainment although the restaurant lacks an entertainment license, and for serving beer at the party to a Brown University student who is younger than 21.

Bravo was using a second-floor space for the party although it had not obtained certificates of fire code compliance and occupancy, according to the police and fire departments, and that constitutes a third violation as far as the board is concerned.

Since the date of the violations, Oct. 14, Bravo has obtained fire code clearance to use the second floor to serve food and drink — but not with entertainment, according to Aitchison.

About 80 to 100 mostly young people were at the party and nobody was guarding against unsafe crowding by checking them in, according to Detective Michael A. Matracia of the police license enforcement unit. When the police and a fire marshal inspected the premises just after midnight on Oct. 14, they ordered the party closed down.

“The licensee admitted to the facts and there really was no defense” when the board considered the violations last week, Aitchison said.

The Brown student, Daniel Loedel, 18, of 75 Waterman Ave., was given a District Court summons charging him with possession of alcohol by an underage person.

The board also fined Jovan’s Lounge, a nightclub at 6 Portland St., South Providence, for an incident Aug. 12 in which two men were stabbed. Police officers who were standing outside Jovan’s, hired by the club as a private detail, were summoned inside when violence erupted.

The police saw two men “lying on the floor in large puddles of blood and [who] were not responding to anyone trying to help them,” according to a police report. The police detained three suspects but had to let them go when nobody could or would identify them as the attackers. The victims were treated at a hospital.

In a settlement negotiated by Jovan’s and the city Law Department, the nightclub agreed to pay a $300 fine for allowing the disorderliness and to waive its right of appeal. A modest fine was deemed appropriate, according to Aitchison, because Jovan’s does not have a recent history of violations.

In other license enforcement action, the board last week relented on the scheduling of a one-day suspension of the liquor license for Finnegan’s Draft House, 395-397 Westminster St., in Downcity. The board had ordered that Finnegan’s be closed Nov. 29, but at Finnegan’s request, the suspension was changed to Nov. 30.

Nov. 29 is a Wednesday, which is Finnegan’s most profitable night, and the bar argued that because it was already paying a hefty $4,000 fine for disturbances on its premises, crowding and serving underage patrons, it would be just if the suspension was moved to Nov. 30. The board agreed, on a vote of 4 to 1.