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State law references — Intoxicating liquor, RSMo. §§ 311.010
to 311.880.
It shall be unlawful for any person to brew, manufacture, distill,
rectify, distribute, sell or expose for sale in the city any intoxicating
liquor in the original package or for sale by the drink on the premises
where sold, without having first applied for and obtained a license
therefor from the board of aldermen; provided, that this article shall
not apply to the possession by a druggist of intoxicating liquor purchased
by him from a licensed vendor under the liquor control law of the
state or intoxicating liquor lawfully acquired and transported into
the state by him pursuant to such liquor control law, such liquor
to be used exclusively in connection with his business as a druggist
in compounding medicines, or as a solvent or preservation; nor shall
this article apply to the sale of intoxicating liquor by a druggist
upon a prescription of a regularly licensed physician.
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State law references — Requirements of licenses for
manufacture, distribution or sale of intoxicating liquor, RSMo. § 311.050;
authority of city to require city licenses, RSMo. § 311.220.
[Code 1964, § 4-6; Ord. No. 804, § 1, 10-21-1971; Ord. No. 1551, § 1, 6-3-1993; Ord. No. 1723, § 1, 12-19-1996]
(a)
The separate license shall be taken out for each of the following
classes of sales of intoxicating liquors in which the licensee desires
to engage:
(1)
Sales of all kinds of intoxicating liquors in the original package
not to be consumed on the premises where sold.
(2)
Sales of malt liquor containing alcohol in excess of three and two-tenths
(3.2) percent by weight and not in excess of five (5) percent by weight
by grocers and other merchants and dealers for sale in the original
package direct to consumers, but not for resale and not for consumption
on the premises where sold.
(3)
Sales of malt liquor and light wines containing not in excess of
fourteen (14) percent of alcohol by weight made exclusively from grapes,
berries and other fruits and vegetables, at retail by the drink for
consumption on the premises where sold, which license shall also permit
the holder to sell nonintoxicating beer.
(4)
Sale of intoxicating liquor of all kinds at retail by the drink for
consumption on the premises where sold, including the sale of intoxicating
liquors in the original package.
(5)
Sales of malt liquor containing in excess of three and two-tenths
(3.2) percent of alcohol and not in excess of five (5) percent of
alcohol by weight as a wholesaler or distributor to persons duly licensed
to sell such malt liquor at retail.
(6)
Sale of intoxicating liquor of all kinds by a wholesaler or distributor
to persons duly licensed to sell intoxicating liquor at retail.
(7)
To manufacture, distill, brew or rectify intoxicating liquor.
(8)
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter to the contrary,
any person who possesses the qualifications required by this chapter,
as well as state law relating thereto, may apply for a Sunday sales
license, which license shall authorize sale of intoxicating liquor,
as in this chapter defined, on Sundays within those hours permitted
by state law. A license for Sunday sales of liquor by the drink at
retail may be issued to a "restaurant bar", which is an establishment
having a license for sale of liquor of all kinds at retail by the
drink as provided in paragraph (4) of this subsection (a) having a
restaurant or similar facility on the premises and which derives at
least fifty (50) percent of its gross income from the sale of prepared
meals or food consumed on such premises. A license for Sunday sales
of intoxicating liquor in the original package at retail may be issued
to an establishment having an appropriate city license for liquor
sales under other paragraphs of this subsection (a) and licensed to
sell intoxicating liquor in the original package at retail under RSMo.,
section 311.200.
(b)
Each of the above described licenses shall apply only to the particular
class for which it is issued and to the particular premises described,
and it shall be unlawful to sell, expose for sale, brew, distill,
manufacture, rectify or distribute any intoxicating liquor by any
person, except from the premises and in the manner described in each
such license.
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State law references — Similar provisions, RSMo. §§ 311.097,
311.180(7), (9), 311.200(3), 311.293.
[Code 1964, § 4-7]
A separate license shall be required for each place of business
licensed under this article.
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State law reference — Issuance of more than three (3)
licenses to any one (1) party prohibited, RSMo. § 311.260.
[Code 1964, § 4-8]
Any person desiring a license as a manufacturer, distiller, brewer, wholesaler or distributor of intoxicating liquor in the city shall make written application therefor to the city collector, on forms furnished by the city collector, stating specifically the particular type or form of business to be carried on under such license; a description of the real estate and the improvements thereon, with the street or office address thereof; the name and address of the individual, or if a partnership, the names of all persons comprising the partnership and the residence address of each, and if a corporation, the names and addresses of all officers and the name and address of the officer having charge of the business proposed to be operated within the city; and a statement in detail of the nature of the business proposed to be transacted within the city. The application shall be accompanied by the surety bond as required by section 3-34. Such application shall be signed and sworn to by the applicant.
[Code 1964, § 4-9]
No person shall be granted a license under this article unless
such person is of good moral character and a qualified legal voter
and taxpaying citizen of the state. No person shall be granted a license
or permit under this article whose license as such dealer has been
revoked, or who has been convicted, since the ratification of the
twenty-first amendment to the Constitution of the United States, of
the violations of the provisions of any law applicable to the manufacture
or sale of intoxicating liquor, or who employs or has employed in
his business, as such dealer, any person whose license has been revoked
or who has been convicted of violating the provisions of any such:
law since the date aforesaid.
[Code 1964, § 4-10; Ord. No. 804, § 3, 10-21-1971; Ord. No. 1551, § 2, 6-3-1993; Ord. No. 1704, § 1, 8-1-1996; Ord.
No. 1723, § 2, 12-19-1996]
(a)
The following are the annual license fees for each of the licenses
prescribed under this article, which shall be paid by the applicant
at the time the application is made:
(1)
For every license for the sale of malt liquor containing alcohol
in excess of three and two-tenths (3.2) percent and not in excess
of five (5) percent of alcohol by weight, for sale by grocers and
other merchants and dealers, in the original package, direct to consumers
but not for resale, twenty-two dollars and fifty cents ($22.50) per
year.
(2)
For every license to sell malt liquor containing in excess of three
and two-tenths (3.2) percent of alcohol and not in excess of five
(5) percent by weight as a wholesaler or distributor, to persons duly
licensed to sell such malt liquor at retail, seventy-five dollars
($75.00) per year.
(3)
For every license to sell intoxicating liquor at retail, in the original
package, not to be consumed upon the premises where sold, one hundred
fifty dollars ($150.00) per year.
(4)
For every license issued for the sale of malt liquor and light wines
containing not in excess of fourteen (14) percent of alcohol by weight
made exclusively from grapes, berries and other fruits and vegetables,
at retail by the drink for consumption on the premises where sold,
which license shall also permit the holder to sell nonintoxicating
beer, fifty-two dollars and fifty cents ($52.50) per year.
(5)
For every license issued for the sale of all kinds of intoxicating
liquor of alcoholic content in excess of three and two-tenths (3.2)
percent by weight at retail for consumption on the premises of the
licensee, including five (5) percent beer, when such sale has been
authorized at an election as provided in the laws of the state, or
otherwise by law, four hundred fifty dollars ($450.00) per year.
(6)
For every license to sell intoxicating liquor of all kinds by a wholesaler
or distributor to persons duly licensed to sell such intoxicating
liquor at retail, three hundred seventy-five dollars ($375.00) per
year.
(7)
For every license to manufacture, distill, brew or rectify intoxicating
liquors of all kinds, three hundred dollars ($300.00) per year.
(8)
For every license to manufacture, distill, brew or rectify intoxicating
liquors containing not in excess of twenty-two (22) percent of alcohol
by weight, one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per year.
(9)
For every license to manufacture or brew malt liquor of the alcohol
content defined in this article, three hundred dollars ($300.00) per
year.
(10)
For every license to sell intoxicating liquor containing not
in excess of twenty-two (22) percent of alcohol by weight by a wholesaler
or distributor to persons duly licensed to sell such intoxicating
liquor at retail, one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per year.
(11)
For every Sunday sales license for the sale of intoxicating liquors of all kinds at retail by the drink or for the sale of intoxicating liquor of all kinds in the original package at retail under the provisions of section 3-22(a)(8) of this Code, the licensee shall pay to the city collector the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00).
(b)
All payments made under this article shall be made payable to the
city collector.
(c)
All fee collected by the city collector pursuant to the provisions
of this article shall be accounted for and paid into the city treasury
as other funds collected by the city collector are accounted for and
paid.
(d)
In the sole and unlimited discretion of the board of aldermen, the
fees established by this section, and any other sections of this chapter,
may be waived for applicants whose principal endeavor is charitable,
religious, educational or eleemosynary and who seek licensure under
this chapter solely in conjunction with activities carried on for
such purposes.
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State law references — Similar provisions, RSMo. §§ 311.180(1)
— (3), (6) — (8), 311.200(1) — (4), 311.293.
[Code 1964, § 4-11]
The city collector shall present all applications for licenses
under this article to the board of aldermen. Upon approval of an application
by a majority of the board of aldermen and the payment of all license
taxes required by this article, a license shall be issued to the applicant.
[Code 1964, § 4-12]
The board of aldermen may, at the time of granting any license
under this article and as a condition thereof, require the applicant
to observe such reasonable requirements in the conduct of the business
thereunder, at the location named, as may be necessary, in the opinion
of the board of aldermen, to properly and adequately protect the traveling
public in the use of the public street on which such business abuts
or fronts and to avert traffic hazards arising in connection therewith.
[Code 1964, § 4-13; Ord. No. 2024 § 1, 2-16-2006]
No license shall be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquor,
as defined in this chapter, within three hundred (300) feet of any
school, church or other building regularly used as a place of worship
nor at any other location prohibited by this code or other ordinances
of the city. The relevant distance shall be measured from the nearest
point on the lot on which the licensed premises is to be located to
the nearest point of the lot upon which the church or school is located
(lot line to lot line). Provided however, that this limitation shall
not apply to a license applied for by a charitable, fraternal, religious,
service or veterans' organization which has obtained an exemption
from the payment of Federal income taxes as provided in Sections 501(c)(3),
501(c)(4), 501(c)(5), 501(c)(7), 501(c)(8), 501(c)(10), 501(c)(29)
or 501(d) of the United States Internal Revenue Code or licenses of
the same character as those issued by the State of Missouri pursuant
to Sections 311.218 or 311.482, RSMo. Provided further, however, that:
(1)
When a school, church or place of worship shall hereafter be established
within three hundred (300) feet of any business previously licensed
to sell intoxicating liquor, the license shall not be denied for this
reason; and
(2)
That the lot-line-to-lot-line distance measurement specified above
shall not be applicable to any lot upon which a licensed facility
is located as of February 1, 2006, and that the distance measurement
to be utilized as to lots with such an existing facility shall be
from the nearest point on the lot where the licensed facility is located
to the nearest point of the building in which the school, church or
other use is located.
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State law references — Similar provisions, RSMo. § 311.180(1);
authority, § 311.180(2).
[Code 1964, § 4-14]
All licenses issued pursuant to this article shall expire by
limitation on December thirty-first of the year of their issuance.
For all licenses issued after the thirty-first day of March, there
shall be paid three-fourths of the annual license fee provided for
in this article; for all licenses issued after thirtieth day of June,
there shall be paid one-half of the annual license fee provided for
in this article.
[Code 1964, § 4-15]
Every license issued under the provisions of this article shall
particularly describe the premises in which intoxicating liquor may
be sold thereunder and such license shall not be deemed to authorize
or permit the sale of intoxicating liquor at any place other than
that described therein. No license issued under this article shall
be transferable or assignable.
[Code 1964, § 4-16]
All licenses issued pursuant to the provisions of this article
shall be kept conspicuously posted in the place for which such license
was issued.
[Code 1964, § 4-17]
Whenever it is shown to the board of aldermen that a person
licensed under this article has not at all times kept an orderly place
or house, or has violated any of the provisions of this article or
of the liquor control law of the state (RSMo., section 311.010 et
seq.), or has no license from the state supervisor of liquor control,
or has made a false affidavit in applying for a license or has failed
to furnish additional sureties on his bond after demand therefor by
the board of aldermen, or when other valid grounds shall be found
to exist therefor, the board of aldermen, after hearing thereon, may
revoke the license of such person, giving ten (10) days' notice
in writing thereof prior to the hearing thereon to such person or
to any person in charge of or employed on the licensed premises, stating
the time, place, purpose and grounds of complaint, at which public
hearing the licensee shall be permitted to have counsel and to produce
witnesses on his behalf.
[Code 1964, § 4-18]
(a)
Each application for a license under this article shall be accompanied
by a bond to be given to the city in the principal sum of two thousand
dollars ($2,000.00), with a surety company authorized to do business
in the state as surety, conditioned that the person obtaining such
license shall keep at all times an orderly house and that he will
not sell, give away or otherwise dispose of, or suffer the same to
be done on or about his premises, any intoxicating liquor in any quantity
to any minor and that he will not violate any of the provisions of
this article or of the liquor control law of the state (RSMo., section
311.010 et seq.), that he will pay all taxes and license fees provided
for in this article, together with all fines, penalties and forfeitures
which may be adjudged against him under the provisions of this article.
Additional sureties on such bond may be required by the board of aldermen
at any time during the life of such license, if, in its discretion,
it deems the surety of the bond to be insufficient or impaired, and
such bond shall provide that the adding of additional sureties thereto,
with or without notice to the existing sureties, shall in no way impair
the liability of the sureties.
(b)
Such bond may be sued on in the name of the city for the collection
of any taxes, penalties, fines or license fees, and in the name of
the city for the use and benefit of any person damaged by the breach
of any of the other conditions of such bond or this article.
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State law reference — Bond, RSMo. § 311.230.
[Code 1964, § 4-19; Ord. No. 1405, § 1, 1-5-1989; Ord. No. 1808, § 1, 3-4-1999]
(a)
Intoxicating liquor may be sold at retail in the original package,
not to be consumed on the premises where sold, pursuant to a license
granted by the board of aldermen. Such license shall be subject to
all other provisions of this article and shall be issued only upon
the following conditions:
(1)
No license shall be issued except to a person engaged in and whose
principal business is that of a drugstore, cigar and tobacco store,
grocery store or a general merchandise store, a confectionery store
or delicatessen. There shall be on hand at the time of the application
and shall be continuously thereafter maintained, a bona fide stock
of goods, wares and merchandise, exclusive of fixtures and intoxicating
liquors, of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) invoice
value. No such license shall be issued in any event to any person
engaged in or who expects or intends to engage principally in the
sale of such intoxicating liquors in what is commonly known as "liquor
stores". No such license shall be issued to any person engaged in
or who expects or intends to engage in the sale of gasoline or other
fuels for the operation of motor vehicles unless the applicant conforms
to the following minimum requirements:
(i)
The business shall contain no less than six hundred and fifty
(650) square feet of sales display area, exclusive of storage rooms
and walk-in refrigeration coolers; and
(ii)
The business shall keep and maintain a stock of no less than
fifty (50) separate and distinguishable products for sale, exclusive
of alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, automotive parts and supplies
and gasoline; and
(iii)
The business must have and keep a stock of goods having a value,
according to invoices, of at least five thousand dollars ($5,000.00)
exclusive of alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, automotive parts
and supplies and gasoline.
(2)
No person shall, after having obtained such license, cause or permit
any intoxicating liquor so sold in its original package to be opened
or consumed in or upon any part of the premises of the applicant.
There shall be displayed, in full view of the public, an appropriate
notice that no sales of intoxicating liquors will be made to minors
or on Sundays or at other times when prohibited by law, and that the
opening or consumption of the same upon any part of the premises is
prohibited. Any violation of this provision shall be sufficient grounds
upon which to revoke the license.
(3)
No license for the sale of intoxicating liquor at retail, in the
original package not for consumption on the premises where sold, shall
be granted or issued after June 18, 1964, when the granting thereof
will increase the number of such licenses outstanding and in force
at that time to a greater number of such licenses outstanding and
then in force than one (1) for each one thousand (1,000) inhabitants
residing within the city and a major fraction of such one thousand
(1,000) inhabitants as shown by the last decennial census of the United
States. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as requiring
the cancellation or invalidation of or as prohibiting the regular
annual renewal of any such licenses outstanding as of December 31,
1959, to the present holders thereof, or to any other person who may
subsequently acquire the business at the location now operated by
the present holders of such licenses, if such purchaser is approved
by the board of aldermen.
(b)
Such limitation shall not apply to licenses issued for the sale of malt liquor containing alcohol in excess of three and two-tenths (3.2) percent and not in excess of five (5) percent of alcohol by weight for sale by bona fide grocers, drugstores and delicatessens in the original package, not for the consumption on the premises where sold, nor to licenses issued under section 3-36 of this Code.
[Code 1964, § 4-20; Ord. No. 1519, § 1, 7-16-1992]
(a)
Intoxicating liquor, including five (5) percent beer, may be sold
by the drink at retail for consumption on the premises where sold,
pursuant to a license granted by the board of aldermen, but only when
authorized by the qualified voters at an election called for that
purpose and when the proceedings prescribed by the liquor control
law (RSMo., Section 311.010 et seq.) of the state relating to such
election and authorization have been fully complied with or until
otherwise authorized by state law, subject to all other applicable
provisions of this article and the provisions of this section.
(b)
No such license shall be granted or issued after June 18, 1964, when
the granting thereof will increase the number of such licenses outstanding
and in force at that time to a greater number of such licenses outstanding
and then in force than one (1) for each seven hundred fifty (750)
inhabitants residing within the city and a major fraction of such
seven hundred fifty (750) inhabitants as shown by the last decennial
census of the United States.
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Editor’s Note — On June 9, 1964, in a special
election, the voters of the city approved the sale by the drink of
intoxicating liquor containing alcohol in excess of five (5) percent
by weight. See Ordinance No. 586 calling such election and Ordinance
No. 593 declaring the result thereof.
State law reference — Election to determine whether
liquor may be sold by the drink, RSMo. § 311.110.
[Code 1964, § 4-21]
(a)
Distillers, wholesalers, winemakers, brewers or their employees,
officers or agents shall not, under any circumstances, directly or
indirectly, have any financial interest in the retail business for
sale of intoxicating liquors and shall not, directly or indirectly,
loan, give away or furnish equipment, money, credit or property of
any kind, except ordinary commercial credit for liquors sold to such
retail dealers; however, notwithstanding any other provision of this
chapter to the contrary, for the purpose of the promotion of tourism,
a distiller whose manufacturing establishment is located within this
city may apply for and the collector may issue a license to sell intoxicating
liquor, as in this chapter defined, by the drink at retail for consumption
on the premises where sold; and provided further that the premises
so licensed shall be in close proximity to the distillery and may
remain open between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and midnight, Monday through
Saturday and between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., Sunday.
The authority for the collection of fees by cities and counties as
provided in RSMo., Section 311.220, and all other laws and regulations
relating to the sale of liquor by the drink for consumption on the
premises where sold shall apply to the holder of a license issued
under the provisions of this section in the same manner as they apply
to establishments licensed under the provisions of RSMo., Sections
311.085, 311.090 or 311.095.
(b)
All contracts entered into between distillers, brewers and winemakers,
or their officers or directors, in any way concerning any of their
products, obligating such retail dealers to buy or sell only the products
of any such distillers, brewers or winemakers or obligating such retail
dealers to buy or sell the major part of such products required by
such retail vendors from any such distiller, brewer or winemaker shall
be void and unenforceable in any court in this state.
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State law reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. § 311.070.
[Code 1964, § 4-22]
It shall be unlawful for any manufacturer, distiller, brewer,
distributor or wholesale dealers in intoxicating liquor, either directly
or indirectly, to sell or deliver intoxicating liquor of any kind
to any person in the city not licensed under the provisions of this
article to sell intoxicating liquors at retail.
[Code 1964, § 4-23]
It shall be the duty of each holder of a license under this
article authorizing the manufacture, distilling, brewing or sale of
intoxicating liquors at wholesale, on or before the fifth day of each
calendar month, to file in the office of the city collector a sworn
statement showing the amount of intoxicating liquor sold and to whom
sold by such license during the next preceding calendar month. Every
such statement shall be signed and sworn to be the holder of such
license, if an individual, or by some authorized official, if such
holder is a corporation.
[Ord. No. 383,
§ 14, 12-23-1959; Code 1964,
§ 4-25; Ord. No. 689, § 1, 12-7-1967; Ord. No. 1180, § 1, 6-17-1982; Ord.
No. 1367, § 1, 11-19-1987; Ord. No. 1954, § 1, 12-18-2003]
(a)
No person having a license issued pursuant to this Chapter or Chapter 312, RSMo., nor any employee of such person shall sell, give away, permit the consumption of, any intoxicating liquor in any quantity between the hours of 1:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. on weekdays and between the hours of 1:30 a.m. Sunday and 6:00 a.m. Monday, upon or about his or her premises. If the person has a license to sell intoxicating liquor by the drink, his premises shall be and remain a closed place as defined in this section between the hours of 1:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. on weekdays and between the hours of 1:30 a.m. Sunday and 6:00 a.m. Monday. Where such licenses authorizing the sale of intoxicating liquor by the drink are held by clubs or hotels, this section shall apply only to the room or rooms in which intoxicating liquor is dispensed; and where such licenses are held by restaurants whose business is conducted in one (1) room only and substantial quantities of food and merchandise other than intoxicating liquors are dispensed, then the licensee shall keep securely locked during the hours and on the days specified in this section all refrigerators, cabinets, cases, boxes, and taps from which intoxicating liquor is dispensed. A "closed place" is defined to mean a place where all doors are locked and where no patrons are in the place or about the premises. Any person violating any provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. 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 the provisions of RSMo., Section 311.180, to a person licensed to sell the intoxicating liquor at retail. Sunday sales of intoxicating liquor are authorized within those hours permitted by state law. See Sec. 3-22(a)(8).
(b)
Any person licensed pursuant to RSMo., Section 311.200, shall not
be permitted to sell, give away or otherwise dispose of, or suffer
the same to be done upon or about his premises, any intoxicating liquor
in any quantity between the hours of 1:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. on weekdays
and between the hours of 1:30 a.m. Sunday and 6:00 a.m. Monday.
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State law reference — Hours and days when sales prohibited,
RSMo. § 311.290.
[Code 1964, § 4-26]
It shall be unlawful for any person to 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 or her 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 violation of this Code; provided, however, 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.
[Code 1964, § 4-27]
It shall be unlawful for any merchant or keeper of any place
of business in the city, subject to regulation by the mayor and board
of aldermen thereof by ordinance, or the employee of such merchant
or keeper, to suffer or permit any minors to drink or consume on the
premises on which his business is conducted any intoxicating liquor,
however acquired, or to sell, give away, lend, permit the use of or
otherwise dispose of any soda water, ginger ale, water, ice, glass,
spoon, container or receptacle to any person with the intent or knowledge
that the same will be consumed or used in connection with the drinking
or consuming by a minor of any such intoxicating liquor on such premises.
[Code 1964, § 4-28]
It shall be unlawful for any person under the age of twenty-one
(21) years to be and remain or to loiter in any tavern or place of
business where intoxicating liquors are sold at retail by the drink
for consumption on the premises, unless accompanied by the parent
or legal guardian of such minor, and it shall be unlawful for any
person licensed to sell intoxicating liquors at retail by the drink
for consumption on the premises or his employee to allow any minor
under the age of twenty-one (21) years, unless accompanied by the
parent or legal guardian of such minor, to be and remain or to loiter
in the tavern or place of business of such person so licensed. Each
such licensee shall keep at all times conspicuously posted in such
tavern or place of business a printed sign displaying in black letters
not less than one (1) inch wide on a white background the words "NOTICE — MINORS
UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS ARE NOT ALLOWED HERE UNLESS ACCOMPANIED
BY PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN". The maintenance of such sign, however,
shall not excuse any licensee from a violation of this section.
[Code 1964, § 4-31]
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.
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State law reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. § 311.100.
[Code 1964, § 4-32]
It shall be unlawful for any person to remove the contents of
any container consisting of any of the intoxicating liquors mentioned
in this article without destroying such container, or to refill any
such container in whole or in part with any of the liquors mentioned
in this article.
[Code 1964, § 4-33; Ord. No. 2575, 6-18-2020]
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. No alcohol
bottle or container, or its graphic representation or likeness thereof
shall be positioned in, on or by any window, show window or glass
door to be visible from the exterior of the premises.
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State law reference — Similar provisions, RSMo. § 311.350.
[Code 1964, § 4-34; Ord. No. 1874 § 1, 2-15-2001]
It shall be the duty of the police of the city to see that the
provisions of this article and of other ordinances of the city 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 which is kept
in violation of any of the provisions of this article or any person
selling intoxicating liquor in the city without a license. It shall
be the duty of the chief of police to report all such infractions
immediately to the board of aldermen.
[Ord. No. 1638, § 1, 2-2-1995]
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 under Sections 3-22(a)(1) and 3-22(a)(8), may apply for a special permit to conduct wine tastings on the licensed premises; however, nothing in this Section shall be construed to permit the licensee to sell wine for on-premises consumption.
