[Ord. No. 89-82 §3-100, 9-20-1989; Ord. No. 94-110 §1, 12-21-1994; Ord. No. 99-65 §3, 8-18-1999; Ord. No. 99-79 §2, 10-20-1999]
A. 
Except as otherwise provided in Section 600.180 of this Chapter, it shall be unlawful for any licensee hereunder, or any employee of such licensee, to sell, give away or otherwise dispose of, or suffer to be done upon or about his premises, any intoxicating liquor or non-intoxicating liquor in any quantity between the hours of 1:30 A.M. and 6:00 A.M.
B. 
Provided however, and in accordance with State Statute, all establishments having a license to sell intoxicating liquor by the drink may be open for business from the hours of 6:00 A.M. to 1:30 A.M. whenever the following days fall on a Sunday:
1. 
New Years' Eve (Dec. 31st).
2. 
New Years' Day (Jan. 1st).
3. 
St. Patrick's Day (March 17th).
4. 
Independence Day (July 4th).
5. 
The Sunday prior to Memorial Day.
6. 
The Sunday prior to Labor Day.
7. 
The Sunday commonly known as "Superbowl Sunday".
C. 
Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prohibit the sale or delivery of any intoxicating liquor during any of the hours or on any of the days specified in this Section by a wholesaler licensed under this Chapter to a person licensed under this Chapter to sell intoxicating liquor at retail.
[Ord. No. 89-82 §3-110, 9-20-1989; Ord. No. 94-105 §2 12-21-1994; Ord. No. 99-65 §4, 8-18-1999; Ord. No. 12-10 §7, 2-15-2012]
A. 
In accordance with Section 600.060 Subsection (A)(7) of this Chapter intoxicating liquor may be sold on Sunday by the drink at retail for consumption on the premises where sold in the following establishments and during the following hours:
1. 
On the premises of a bar, restaurant-bar, as defined under Section 600.010 of this Code, and in accordance with Chapter 311, RSMo., as may be amended, between the hours of 11:00 A.M. to Midnight on Sunday and only when the licensee desiring to do so shall have first obtained a license to do so in accordance with provisions set forth under Chapter 600 of this Code of Ordinances.
2. 
On the premises of any amusement place as defined under Section 600.010 of this Code, and in accordance with Chapter 311, RSMo., as may be amended, between the hours of 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 Midnight on Sunday and only when the licensee desiring to do so shall have first obtained a license to do so in accordance with provisions set forth under Chapter 600 of this Code of Ordinances.
3. 
With a wine or brandy manufacturer's license, as defined under Section 600.065 of this Code, and in accordance with Chapter 311, RSMo., as may be amended, on the premises of any winery for the hours provided in Section 600.065 of this Code.
[Ord. No. 94-105 §3, 12-21-1994; Ord. No. 12-10 §8, 2-15-2012; Ord. No. 14-17 §1, 7-2-2014]
Intoxicating liquor in the original package may be sold on Sunday at retail from between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 12:00 Midnight Sunday, except as provided in Section 600.065 and only when the licensee desiring to do so shall have first obtained a license to do so in accordance with the provisions set forth under Chapter 600 of this Code.
[Ord. No. 89-82 §3-120, 9-20-1989; Ord. No. 12-10 §9, 2-15-2012]
A. 
The provisions of Section 600.080 regarding the presentation of applications for liquor licenses to the City Council shall not apply to any applicant for the license to sell liquor by the drink on Sunday provided for in Section 600.060 of this Chapter who shall have previously obtained a license to engage in another class of sales established in Section 600.060. The City Collector shall issue such Sunday license upon:
1. 
The payment of the fee herein provided for; and
2. 
a. 
The notarized certification of the applicant showing that the percentage of food sales qualifies the establishment as a restaurant-bar; or
b. 
Proof that the applicant holds a wine or brandy manufacturer's license.
The license shall expire on June 30 next following its issuance and shall in all other respects be subject to the provisions of this Article.
[Ord. No. 94-104 §2, 12-21-1994; Ord. No. 12-10 §10, 2-15-2012; Ord. No. 15-17 §1, 5-20-2015]
A. 
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Chapter to the contrary, any person possessing the qualifications and meeting the requirements of this Chapter, who is licensed to sell intoxicating liquor in the original package at retail, may apply for a special permit to conduct intoxicating liquor tastings on the licensed premises. A licensee under this Section shall pay an additional twenty-five dollars ($25.00) a year payable at the same time and manner as other license fees.
B. 
Nothing in this Section shall be construed to permit the licensee to sell intoxicating liquor for on-premises consumption.
C. 
This Section 600.195(A) and (B) shall not apply to a person holding a wine or brandy manufacturing license inasmuch as a wine or brandy manufacturing license includes the privilege of conducting wine tastings on the licensed premises.
[Ord. No. 89-82 §3-130, 9-20-1989]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person maintaining, owning, or operating a commercial establishment located within the City of Bridgeton, at which alcoholic beverages are offered for sale for consumption on the premises:
1. 
To suffer or permit any female person, while on the premises of said commercial establishment, to expose to the public view that area of the human breast at or below the areola thereof.
2. 
To suffer or permit any female person, while on the premises of said commercial establishment to employ any device or covering which is intended to give the appearance of or simulate such portions of the human female breasts as described in Subsection A(1) of this Section.
3. 
To suffer or permit any person, while on the premises of said commercial establishment to expose to public view his or her genitals, pubic area, buttocks, anus, anal cleft or cleavage.
4. 
To suffer or permit any person, while on the premises of said commercial establishment, to employ any device or covering which is intended to give the appearance of or simulate the genitals, pubic area, buttocks, anus, anal cleft or cleavage.
5. 
To suffer or permit any person, while on the premises of said commercial establishment, to engage in the actual or simulated touching, caressing or fondling on the breasts, buttocks, anus, genitals or pubic area.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any female person, while on the premises of a commercial establishment located within the City of Bridgeton, at which alcoholic beverages are offered for sale for consumption on the premises, to expose to public view that area of the human female breast at or below the areola thereof, or to employ any device or covering which is intended to give the appearance or simulate such areas of the female breast as described herein.
C. 
It shall be unlawful for any person, while on the premises of a commercial establishment located within the City of Bridgeton, at which alcoholic beverages are offered for sale for consumption on the premises, to expose to public view his or her genitals, pubic area, buttocks, anus or anal cleft or cleavage, or to employ any device or covering which is intended to give the appearance of or simulate the genitals, pubic area, buttocks, anus or anal cleft or cleavage.
D. 
If the owner, operator, licensee, lessor, lessee, manager, employee, or any other person participating in the operation of commercial establishment located within the City of Bridgeton, at which alcoholic beverages are offered for sale for consumption on the premises shall be convicted of any of the offenses designated in Subsection (A) hereof, then the City Council shall revoke the liquor license for said establishment after giving a reasonable notice thereof to the holder of said license and affording the holder an opportunity to be heard as to why the revocation should not be issued.
[Ord. No. 89-82 §3-140, 9-20-1989]
A. 
No license shall be granted for a proposed place of sale of intoxicating liquor by the drink or the sale of malt liquor as defined in Section 600.060 by the drink at retail, within two hundred (200) feet of any school, church or other building regularly used as a place of religious worship, except as provided in Section 600.220.
B. 
No license shall be granted for the proposed place of sale of intoxicating liquor in the original package or malt liquor in the original package within one hundred (100) feet of any school, church or other buildings regularly used as a place of religious worship, except as provided in Section 600.220.
[Ord. No. 89-82, §3-145, 9-20-1989]
The City Council may, in its discretion, grant any license specified in Section 600.060 within any distance of a school or church or other building regularly used as a place of worship if the applicant for the license shall first obtain the consent in writing of the Board of Directors of the school or the consent in writing of the majority of the managing board of the church or place of worship which is within the distance from the proposed place of sale specified in Section 600.210.
[Ord. No. 89-82 §3-150, 9-20-1989]
For the purpose of Section 600.210, the distance between any place in which liquor or beer is to be sold and any school, church or other place of worship, shall be the straight line distance between the closest points of the building used for such school or church, and the store room or building in which the proposed licensee shall carry on his business. "Store room or building" as used herein shall mean only those premises which are constructed as a separate place of business and in which the proposed licensee shall carry on his own business, and shall not include any part of a building used by other tenants or occupants to conduct their own separate businesses.
[Ord. No. 89-82 §3-155, 9-20-1989]
In the event any school church or place of worship shall be established within two hundred (200) feet of any place licensed to sell liquor by the drink or beer by the drink, or within one hundred (100) feet of any place licensed to sell beer by the original package or intoxicating liquor in the original package, after the date of the original issuance of any such license, a renewal of such license shall not be denied for lack of the consent in writing specified in Section 600.220.
[Ord. No. 89-82 §3-160, 9-20-1989]
It shall be unlawful to display in any street window or show window any intoxicating liquor, or any package, bottle or container bearing the label or brand of any intoxicating liquor.
[Ord. No. 86-80 §1, 11-5-1986; Ord. No. 89-82 §3-170, 9-20-1989; Ord. No. 00-71 §1, 10-18-2000; Ord. No. 11-41 §§1 — 2, 8-3-2011]
A. 
No license for the sale of intoxicating liquor shall be issued to any person where, as an adjunct to, or as a part of the business conducted on such person's premises, gasoline or other motor fuels is sold to the motoring public unless the special use permit authorizing the operation of the gasoline or other motor fuels sales establishment specifically declares the sale of intoxicating liquor as permissible, except that a license may be issued for the sale in the original package of malt liquor, non-intoxicating beer and light wine as defined under Section 600.060(A)(4) of this Section of the Code without specific declaration in the otherwise required special use permit.
1. 
Licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquor, malt liquor, non-intoxicating beer and light wine in the original package shall not be issued to any applicant who conducts a business that dispenses gasoline for motor vehicles (gasoline service stations) unless said applicant meets all the requirements of this Chapter and, in addition thereto, conforms to each of the following minimum requirements:
a. 
The business shall contain no less than five hundred fifty (550) square feet of sales display area.
b. 
Selling and display space for intoxicating liquor, malt liquor, non-intoxicating beer and light wine shall be limited to a maximum of twenty percent (20%) of the total selling space.
c. 
The business shall keep and maintain at all times a stock of no less than seven hundred fifty (750) separate and distinguishable products for sale, exclusive of intoxicating liquor, malt liquor, non-intoxicating beer and light wine, tobacco products, automotive parts and supplies, and gasoline.
d. 
The business must have and keep a stock of goods having a value, according to invoices, of at least ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) exclusive of intoxicating liquor, malt liquor, non-intoxicating beer and light wine, tobacco products, automotive parts and supplies, and gasoline.
e. 
Advertising of intoxicating liquor, malt liquor, non-intoxicating beer and light wine shall be permitted on gasoline islands.
f. 
Drive-through windows are not permitted.
g. 
No packaged intoxicating liquor shall be directly accessible or within physical reach of the general public, and such products must be stored in, and may only be displayed from, a secured cabinet or case.
B. 
This Section shall not prohibit the renewal or reissuance of a license for the sale of intoxicating liquor or non-intoxicating beer with respect to any premises if:
1. 
A license shall, previous to the effective date of this Section (November 5, 1986), have been issued for the sale of intoxicating liquor or non-intoxicating beer at such premises; and
2. 
The selling of gasoline or other motor fuels to the motoring public at the time this Section became effective was part of the business conducted on such premises; and
3. 
Such premises shall not have changed ownership after the effective date of this Section.
C. 
Any such renewal or reissuance of the license shall be for the same type of license as held for said premises at the time this Section became effective (November 5, 1986).
[Ord. No. 89-82 §3-180, 9-20-1989]
It shall be unlawful for any person holding a malt liquor or light wine license and not at the same time holding a retail liquor dealer's license covering the premises described in said malt liquor or light wine dealer's license, to have or keep in or on said premises any intoxicating liquor of any kind or character, other than malt liquor or light wine brewed or manufactured by the method, in the manner, and of the ingredients required by the laws of this State; or to sell, or offer for sale, in or upon any premises, any intoxicating liquor other than malt liquors or light wines.
[Ord. No. 89-82 §3-190, 9-20-1989]
The sale of 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 the holder of a retail liquor dealer's license, and, when so made, the container in every case shall be emptied and the contents served as other intoxicating liquors sold by the drink are served.
[Ord. No. 89-82 §3-200, 9-20-1989]
No package liquor license shall be issued except to a person engaged in and to be used in connection with one or more of the following businesses: A drugstore, a cigar and tobacco store, a grocery store, a general merchandise store, a confectionery, delicatessen or liquor store; and no such license shall be issued to any person who does not have or keep in such store a stock of goods having a value according to invoice of at least one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), exclusive of fixtures and intoxicating liquors.
[Ord. No. 89-82 §3-210, 9-20-1989; Ord. No. 12-10 §11, 2-15-2012]
Every person obtaining a license under this Chapter to sell non-intoxicating beer by the drink at retail, to be consumed at the place where sold, except hotels, clubs, restaurants, mircrobreweries and wineries, shall conduct such business in a single room located on the ground floor immediately abutting on the public street; provided however, the licensee may maintain, in connection with and adjoining the room in which non-intoxicating beer is sold at retail by the drink, an open air space, commonly called a summer garden, for serving such non-intoxicating beer, whenever one (1) boundary, at least of such open air space, is a public street or highway.
[Ord. No. 91-14 §6, 2-20-1991]
Any licensee under this Chapter, or his employee, who shall sell, vend, give away or otherwise supply any intoxicating liquor in any quantity whatsoever to any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years, or to any person intoxicated or appearing to be in a state of intoxication, or to a habitual drunkard, and any person whomsoever except his parent or guardian who shall procure for, sell, give away or otherwise supply intoxicating liquor to any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years, or to any intoxicated person or any person appearing to be in a state of intoxication, or to a habitual drunkard, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, except that this Section shall not apply to the supplying of intoxicating liquor to a person under the age of twenty-one (21) years for medical purposes only, or to the administering of such intoxicating liquor to any person by a duly licensed physician. No person shall be denied a license or renewal of a license issued under this Chapter solely due to a conviction for unlawful sale or supply to a minor when serving in the capacity as an employee of a licensed establishment.
[1]
State Law Reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. §§311.310, 312.400.
[Ord. No. 89-82 §3-310, 9-20-1989]
Any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years who purchases or attempts to purchase, or has in his possession, any intoxicating liquor or non-intoxicating beer is guilty of an offense.
[Ord. No. 89-82 §3-320, 9-20-1989]
A. 
Any person of the age of seventeen (17) years and under the age of twenty-one (21) years who shall represent that he or she has attained the age of twenty-one (21) years for the purpose of purchasing, asking for or in any way receiving any intoxicating liquor or non-intoxicating beer, except in cases authorized by law, shall upon conviction be deemed guilty of an offense.
B. 
Any person under the age of seventeen (17) years who shall represent that he or she has attained the age of twenty-one (21) years for the purpose of purchasing, asking for or in any way receiving any intoxicating liquor or non-intoxicating beer, except in cases authorized by law, may be considered a delinquent child and may be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of RSMo. Ch. 211.
[1]
State Law Reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. §§311.320, 312.405.
[Ord. No. 89-82 §3-330, 9-20-1989; Ord. No. 97-72 §1, 10-1-1997; Ord. No. 12-10 §12, 2-15-2012]
A. 
Except as provided in Subsections (B) and (C), no person under the age of twenty-one (21) years shall sell or assist in the sale or dispensing of intoxicating liquor or non-intoxicating beer.
B. 
In any place of business licensed in accordance with this Chapter, where at least fifty percent (50%) of the gross sales made consists of goods, merchandise or commodities other than intoxicating liquor or non-intoxicating beer in the original package, persons at least eighteen (18) years of age may stock, arrange displays, accept payment for and sack for carryout intoxicating liquor or non-intoxicating beer. Delivery of intoxicating liquor or non-intoxicating beer away from the licensed business premises cannot be performed by anyone under the age of twenty-one (21) years.
Any licensee who employs any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years, as authorized by this Subsection shall, when at least fifty percent (50%) of the licensee's gross sales does not consist of non-alcoholic sales, have an employee twenty-one (21) years of age or older on the licensed premises during all hours of operation.
C. 
In any winery, microbrewery, distillery, warehouse, wholesale distributorship or similar place of business which stores or distributes intoxicating liquor or non-intoxicating beer, but which does not sell intoxicating liquor or non-intoxicating beer at retail, persons at least eighteen (18) years of age may be employed and their duties may include the handling of intoxicating liquor or non-intoxicating beer for all purposes except consumption, sale at retail or dispensing for consumption or sale at retail.
D. 
Persons eighteen (18) years of age or older may, when acting in the capacity of a waiter or waitress, accept payment for or serve intoxicating liquor or non-intoxicating beer in places of business which sell food for consumption on the premises if at least fifty percent (50%) of all sales in those places consists of food.
E. 
Nothing in this Section shall authorize persons under twenty-one (21) years of age to mix or serve across the bar intoxicating beverages or non-intoxicating beer.
[1]
State Law Reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. §311.300.
[Ord. No. 89-82 §3-900, 9-20-1989]
A. 
Any person violating any provisions of this Chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and every day said violation shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.
B. 
Penalties shall be in accordance with Section 100.080 of the Code of the City of Bridgeton.
[Ord. No. 89-82 §3-910, 9-20-1989]
It shall be the duty of the City Police to see that the provisions of this Chapter and of other ordinances in regard to the sale of intoxicating liquor are obeyed, and to report to the Chief of Police any place where intoxicating liquor is sold at retail which is not kept in an orderly manner or in violation of any of the provisions hereof, or any person selling intoxicating liquor without a license.