[CC 1996 §600.020]
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership or corporation to manufacture, distill, brew, sell or expose for sale at wholesale or retail in this City intoxicating liquor, as defined in Section
600.010 of this Chapter, in any quantity without first obtaining a license therefore as described in this Chapter.
[CC 1996 §600.030]
No person shall be granted a license hereunder unless such person
is qualified under and meets all of the conditions stated in Section
311.060, RSMo., and has obtained or been approved for a liquor license
by the State. The City Clerk shall require all applicants for licenses
to file written statements, under oath, containing the information
reasonably required to administer this Section. Statements by applicants
for licenses as wholesalers and retailers shall set out, with other
information required, full information concerning the residence of
all persons financially interested in the business to be licensed
as required by regulation. All material changes in the information
filed shall be promptly reported to the City Clerk.
[CC 1996 §600.040]
Every application for any permit or license authorized by this
Chapter and every permit or license issued under authority of this
Chapter shall be in such form as may be prescribed by the City Clerk.
[CC 1996 §600.090]
No licensee who shall have had his/her license suspended by
order of the Board of Aldermen shall sell or give away any intoxicating
liquor or non-intoxicating beer during the period of time such order
of suspension is in effect. Any licensee desiring to keep his/her
premises open for the sale of food or merchandise during such period
of suspension shall display the order of suspension issued by the
Board of Aldermen in a conspicuous place on the premises so that all
persons visiting the premises may readily see the same.
[CC 1996 §600.110; Ord. No. 1381 §I, 9-22-2003]
A. Hours. No person having a license issued pursuant to this
Chapter or Chapter 312, RSMo., nor any employee of such person, shall
sell, give away, or 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/her premises.
B. Package Liquor — Sunday Sales.[Ord. No. 1939, 9-20-2021]
1. 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 this Chapter, may apply to the State
Supervisor of Alcohol and Tobacco Control for a special license to
sell intoxicating liquor in the original package at retail between
the hours of 6:00 A.M. on Sundays and 1:30 A.M. on Mondays. A licensee
under this Section shall pay to the Director of Revenue an additional
fee of two hundred dollars ($200.00) a year payable at the same time
and in the same manner as its other license fees.
2. In addition to any fee collected pursuant to Section 311.220, RSMo.,
the City shall collect an additional fee of three hundred ($300.00)
from any licensee under this Section for the privilege of selling
intoxicating liquor at retail between the hours of 6:00 A.M. on Sundays
and 1:30 A.M. on Mondays in the City; however, the additional fee
shall not exceed the fee charged by the City for a special license
issued pursuant to any provision of this Chapter which allows a licensee
to sell intoxicating liquor by the drink for consumption on the premises
of the licensee on Sundays.
C. No
license shall be issued for the sale of intoxicating liquor in the
original package, not to be consumed upon the premises where sold,
except to a person engaged in, and to be used in connection with,
the operation of one (1) or more of the following businesses: A drug
store, a cigar and tobacco store, a grocery store, a general merchandise
store, a confectionery or delicatessen store, nor to any such person
who does not have and keep in his/her store a stock of goods having
a value according to invoices of at least one thousand dollars ($1,000.00),
exclusive of fixtures and intoxicating liquors. Under such license,
no intoxicating liquor shall be consumed on the premises where sold
nor shall any original package be opened on the premises of the vendor
except as otherwise provided in this Chapter or by law.
D. Restaurant Bars. Notwithstanding any other provisions of
this Chapter to the contrary, any person who possesses the qualifications
required by this Chapter, and who now or hereafter meets the requirements
of and complies with the provisions of this Chapter may apply for,
and may be issued, a license to sell intoxicating liquor, as in this
Chapter defined, between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and Midnight on Sunday
by the drink at retail for consumption on the premises of any restaurant
bar as described in the application.
Any new restaurant bar having been in operation for less than
ninety (90) days may be issued a temporary license to sell intoxicating
liquor by the drink at retail for consumption on the premises between
the hours of 1:00 P.M. and Midnight on Sunday for a period not to
exceed ninety (90) days if the restaurant bar can show a projection
of annual business from prepared meals or food consumed on the premises
of at least fifty percent (50%) of the total gross income of the restaurant
bar for the year or can show a projection of annual business from
prepared meals or food consumed on the premises which would exceed
not less than two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00). The license
fee shall be prorated for the period of the temporary license based
on the cost of the annual license for the establishment.
E. Amusement Places.
1. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Chapter to the contrary,
any person who possesses the qualifications required by this Chapter,
and who now or hereafter meets the requirements of and complies with
the provisions of this Chapter, may apply for, and the Supervisor
of Alcohol and Tobacco Control may issue, a license to sell intoxicating
liquor, as defined in this Chapter, between the hours of 9:00 A.M.
and Midnight on Sunday by the drink at retail for consumption on the
premises of any amusement place as described in the application.
2. Any new amusement place having been in operation for less than ninety
(90) days may be issued a temporary license to sell intoxicating liquor
by the drink at retail for consumption on the premises between the
hours of 9:00 A.M. and Midnight on Sunday for a period not to exceed
ninety (90) days if the amusement place can show a projection of gross
receipts of at least one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) of
which at least fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) of such gross receipts
are in non-alcoholic sales for the first (1st) year of operation.
The license fee shall be prorated for the period of the temporary
license based on the cost of the annual license for the establishment.
F. Temporary Permit For Sale By Drink — Certain Organizations.
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Chapter, in lieu of a permit issued pursuant to Section
600.020, a permit for the sale of intoxicating liquor, as defined in Section
600.010, for consumption on premises where sold may be issued to any church, school, civic, service, fraternal, veteran, political or charitable club or organization for the sale of such intoxicating liquor at a picnic, bazaar, fair or similar gathering. The permit shall be issued only for the day or days named therein and it shall not authorize the sale of intoxicating liquor for more than seven (7) days by any such club or organization.
2. If the event will be held on a Sunday, the permit shall authorize
the sale of intoxicating liquor on that day beginning at 11:00 A.M.
3. At the same time that an applicant applies for a permit under the
provisions of this Section, the applicant shall notify the City of
the holding of the event and by such notification, by certified mail,
shall accept responsibility for the collection and payment of any
applicable sales tax. Any sales tax due shall be paid to the City
within fifteen (15) days after the close of the event, and failure
to do so shall result in a liability of triple the amount of the tax
due plus payment of the tax, and denial of any other permit for a
period of three (3) years. Under no circumstances shall a bond be
required from the applicant.
4. No provision of law or rule or regulation of the City shall be interpreted
as preventing any wholesaler or distributor from providing customary
storage, cooling or dispensing equipment for use by the permit holder
at such picnic, bazaar, fair or similar gathering.
[CC 1996 §600.140]
When January first (1st), March seventeenth (17th), July fourth
(4th) or December thirty-first (31st) falls on Sunday and on the Sundays
prior to Memorial Day and Labor Day and on the Sunday on which the
championship game of the National Football League is played, commonly
known as "Super Bowl Sunday", a licensee may be open for business
and sell intoxicating liquor by the drink under the provisions of
his or her license on that day from the time and until the time which
would be lawful on another day of the week, notwithstanding any provisions
of this Chapter to the contrary.