Alcohol is, by law, an age-restricted product that is regulated
differently than other products. The provisions of this Chapter establish
vital regulation of the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages
in order to promote responsible consumption, combat illegal underage
drinking, and achieve other important policy goals such as maintaining
an orderly marketplace composed of licensed alcohol producers, importers,
distributors, and retailers.
When used in this Chapter, the following words shall have the
following meanings:
CLOSED PLACE
A place where all doors are locked and where no patrons are
in the place or about the premises.
INTOXICATING LIQUOR
Alcohol for beverage purposes, including alcoholic, spirituous,
vinous, fermented, malt, or other liquors, or combination of liquors,
a part of which is spirituous, vinous, or fermented, and all preparations
or mixtures for beverage purposes containing in excess of one-half
of one percent (0.5%) by volume. All beverages having an alcoholic
content of less than one-half of one percent (0.5%) by volume shall
be exempt from the provisions of this Chapter.
LIGHT WINES
An intoxicating liquor consisting of wine containing not
in excess of fourteen percent (14%) of alcohol by weight made exclusively
from grapes, berries and other fruits and vegetables.
MALT LIQUOR
An intoxicating liquor containing alcohol not in excess of
five percent (5%) by weight manufactured from pure hops or pure extract
of hops, or pure barley malt, or wholesome grains or cereals, and
wholesome yeast, and pure water.
ORIGINAL PACKAGE
Any package sealed or otherwise closed by the manufacturer
so as to consist of a self-contained unit, and consisting of one (1)
or more bottles or other containers of intoxicating liquor, where
the package and/or container(s) describes the contents thereof as
intoxicating liquor. "Original package" shall also
be construed and held to refer to any package containing three (3)
or more standard bottles of beer.
PERSON
An individual, association, firm, joint stock company, syndicate,
partnership, corporation, receiver, trustee, conservator, or any other
officer appointed by any State or Federal court.
RESORT
Any establishment having at least thirty (30) rooms for the
overnight accommodation of transient guests having a restaurant or
similar facility on the premises at least sixty percent (60%) of the
gross income of which is derived from the sale of prepared meals or
food, or means a restaurant provided with special space and accommodations
where, in consideration of payment, food, without lodging, is habitually
furnished to travelers and customers, and which restaurant establishment's
annual gross receipts immediately preceding its application for a
license shall not have been less than seventy-five thousand dollars
($75,000.00) per year with at least fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00)
of such gross receipts from non-alcoholic sales, or means a seasonal
resort restaurant with food sales as determined in Subsection (2)
of Section 311.095, RSMo. Any facility which is owned and operated
as a part of the resort may be used to sell intoxicating liquor by
the drink for consumption on the premises of such facility and, for
the purpose of meeting the annual gross food receipts requirements
of this definition, if any facility which is a part of the resort
meets such requirement, such requirement shall be deemed met for any
other facility which is a part of the resort.
The sale of any intoxicating liquor except malt liquor, in the
original package, in any quantity less than fifty (50) milliliters
shall be deemed "sale by the drink" and may be made
only by a holder of a retail liquor dealer's license and, when so
made, the container in every case shall be emptied and the contents
thereof served as other intoxicating liquors sold by the drink are
served.
[R.O. 2012 §600.090(A — B, D); Ord.
No. 627 §8, 3-17-1999]
A. Filing Of An Application. Each application for an original
or renewal license shall be filed with the City Clerk on a form to
be provided by the City, signed and sworn to by the applicant. Each
application shall be accompanied by a proper remittance reflecting
the appropriate license fee made payable to the City.
B. Qualifications.
1. No person
shall be granted a license hereunder unless such person (or such corporation's
managing officer) is of good moral character, a qualified legal voter
and a taxpaying citizen of the State, County, Town, City or Village,
and holds no more than two (2) additional licenses hereunder.
2. No person
shall be granted a license hereunder who has had any form of liquor
license revoked or who has been convicted of any offense relating
to the manufacture or sale of liquor or who employs any such person.
3. All
applications for any license or permit shall be made to the City Collector
who shall require the applicant to file a written statement, under
oath, containing identical information to that required upon the State
of Missouri application for a like license or permit, which application
shall be accompanied by the fee applicable to the license sought.
a. The
solicited license or permit may be acted upon at any meeting of the
Board of Aldermen which occurs more than fourteen (14) days after
the filing of the application.
b. If
otherwise qualified, an applicant shall receive a preference in the
issuance of the solicited license if he/she is acquiring a business
which then holds a like license, but which is surrendering the same.
All other applications shall be considered in the order filed.
C. Upon
approval of any application for a license, the Clerk shall grant the
applicant a license to conduct business in the City for a term to
expire with the thirtieth (30th) day of June next succeeding the date
of such license, unless such license be revoked or suspended for cause
before the expiration of such time.
D. Applications
for renewal of licenses must be filed on or before the first (1st)
day of May of each calendar year. Such renewal application shall be
reviewed by the Board at its next meeting. Upon approval of the majority
of the Board and payment of the license fee provided herein, the Clerk
shall renew the license. In the event that any person residing or
conducting businesses within two hundred (200) feet of the applicant's
place of business shall file a written protest against the renewal
of such license, the Board shall conduct a hearing on the application
for license renewal as provided in this Subsection.
For purposes of determining violations and prosecution under
this Chapter, or any rule or regulation of the Supervisor of Alcohol
and Tobacco Control, a manufacturer-sealed container describing that
there is intoxicating liquor therein need not be opened or the contents
therein tested to verify that there is intoxicating liquor in such
container. The alleged violator may allege that there was no intoxicating
liquor in such container, but the burden of proof of such allegation
is on such person, as it shall be presumed that such a sealed container
describing that there is intoxicating liquor therein contains intoxicating
liquor.
[R.O. 2012 §600.050; Ord. No. 627 §4, 3-17-1999]
It shall be unlawful for any person to drink from or have in
his/her possession an open container of intoxicating liquor in any
public place within the City, unless a liquor license or permit has
been issued and is in effect relating to such public place, except
that no package shall be opened, nor intoxicating liquor consumed,
on any premises licensed for sale only in the original package.
Any person who is licensed to sell or serve alcoholic beverages
at any establishment shall place on the premises of such establishment
a warning sign as described in this Section. Such sign shall be at
least eleven (11) inches by fourteen (14) inches and shall read "WARNING:
Drinking alcoholic beverages during pregnancy may cause birth defects".
The licensee shall display such sign in a conspicuous place on the
licensed premises.
[R.O. 2012 §600.110; Ord. No. 627 §10, 3-17-1999]
A. A person
whom a Police Officer has reasonable cause to believe is intoxicated
may be taken by such Police Officer to such person's residence, to
any available treatment service or to any other appropriate local
facility, which may include a jail, for custody, not to exceed twelve
(12) hours.
B. Any Police
Officer detaining a person whom the officer has reasonable cause to
believe is intoxicated shall be immune from prosecution for false
arrest and shall not be responsible in damages for taking action pursuant
to the foregoing Subsection, provided he/she does not use unreasonably
excessive force to detain such person.
C. Such
immunity shall extend to the right of the officer to take reasonable
action to protect himself from harm by a person whom the officer has
reasonable cause to believe is intoxicated.