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.
[R.O. 2009 §3-1; Ord. No. 966 §3, 3-30-1999]
When used in this Chapter, the following words shall have the
following meanings:
AMUSEMENT PLACE
Any establishment whose business building contains a square
footage of at least six thousand (6,000) square feet, and where games
of skill commonly known as billiards, volleyball, indoor golf, bowling
or soccer are usually played or has a dance floor of at least twenty-five
hundred (2,500) square feet or any outdoor golf course with a minimum
of nine (9) holes, and which has annual 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 is in non-alcoholic
sales.
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.
PREMISES
Includes that portion of any building in which a licensee
hereunder has his/her place of business and any additional building
or portion thereof used in connection therewith and the entire lot
or lots, parcel or parcels of land on which said buildings are situated
or which are used in connection with the buildings.
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.
RESTAURANT BAR
Any establishment having a restaurant or similar facility
on the premises at least fifty percent (50%) of the gross income of
which is derived from the sale of prepared meals or food consumed
on such premises or which has an annual gross income of at least two
hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00) from the sale of prepared meals
or food consumed on such premises.
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. 2009 §3-37; Ord. No. 47 §19, 6-22-1954]
All fees collected by the City Clerk or duly authorized Deputy
Clerk or Collector pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter shall
be accounted for and paid into the City Treasury as other funds collected
by the City Clerk or duly authorized Deputy City Clerk or Collector
are accounted for and paid.
[R.O. 2009 §3-38; Ord. No. 47 §20, 6-22-1954]
The fees to be charged hereunder shall be taken in lieu of the
proportionate part of any merchant's license fee and ad valorem tax
for the stock and sales of intoxicating liquors under other ordinances
and the aggregate amount of sales thereof made by any licensee hereunder
shall not be returned by such merchant for purposes of merchant's
license or ad valorem tax, nor shall such stock or sale be included
in the computation of any merchant's license or ad valorem tax.
[R.O. 2009 §§3-23, 3-25, 3-26; Ord. No. 47 §§3, 6, 6-22-1954]
A. Filing Of An Application.
1. 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.
2. Application for license to sell intoxicating liquor under the provisions
of this Chapter shall be filed with the City Clerk or the duly authorized
Deputy City Clerk or Collector. The application shall be on forms
to be furnished by the City Clerk and signed and sworn to by the applicant.
B. Qualifications.
1. Neither the applicant nor any officer, director or shareholder of
a corporate applicant shall have been convicted of a felony or of
any distribution, sale or possession of any controlled substances
or dangerous drugs. The applicant shall present with the application
a bona fide sale contract or option duly executed, which may be subject
to the applicant obtaining a liquor license, or a bona fide lease
duly executed by the lessor, or an option for a lease duly executed,
subject to the applicant obtaining a liquor license, covering the
property for which a liquor license is requested. If the applicant
is a corporation, the petition shall set forth all of the above information
with respect to the managing officer or officers, identifying such
officer or officers. The application shall further state the full
name of the corporation, its date of incorporation, its registered
agent and registered address, the names and addresses of all shareholders
of the corporation, and whether said corporation operates any other
business or controls or is controlled by any other corporation or
business and, if so, the application shall further state the name
of such controlled or controlling corporation or business, its registered
agent and registered address, and the location of all businesses operated
by it and the name and address of any such businesses with a liquor
license, whether within or without the City; and the application shall
also state if such controlling corporation or any controlled corporation
is doing business under a fictitious name, and the address where said
business is located. The Board of Aldermen also may request such additional
information of an applicant as it may deem necessary for it to make
a determination with respect to the issuance of a liquor license.
2. No person shall be granted a license hereunder unless such person
is of good moral character and a native born or naturalized citizen
of the United States of America and a resident of St. Louis County,
Missouri. No person shall be granted a license or a permit hereunder
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 violation of the provisions of any law
applicable to the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquor or who
employs or has employed in his/her 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.
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. 2009 §3-41; Ord. No. 763 §1, 12-17-1991]
A. It
shall be unlawful for any person maintaining, owning or operating
a commercial establishment located within the City, at which alcoholic
beverages are offered for sale for consumption on the premises, to
suffer or permit any of the following:
1. Any female employee or other female person engaged by the person
maintaining, owning or operating such commercial establishment to
provide entertainment whether such person is paid or not, while on
the premises of the commercial establishment, to expose to public
view that area of the human breast including the nipple and areola.
2. Any female employee or other female person engaged by the person maintaining, owning or operating such commercial establishment to provide entertainment, whether such person is paid or not, while on the premises of the commercial establishment, to employ and expose to public view any device or covering which is intended to give the appearance of or simulate such portions of the human female breast as described in Subsection
(A)(1).
3. Any employee or other person engaged by the person maintaining, owning
or operating such commercial establishment to provide entertainment,
whether such person is paid or not, while on the premises of the commercial
establishment, to expose to public view his/her genitals, pubic area,
buttocks, anus or anal cleft or cleavage.
4. Any employee or other person engaged by the person maintaining, owning
or operating such commercial establishment to provide entertainment,
whether such person is paid or not, while on the premises of the commercial
establishment, to employ and to expose to public view 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.
5. Any employee or other person engaged by the person maintaining, owning
or operating such commercial establishment to provide entertainment,
whether such person is paid or not, to engage in public view in the
actual or simulated touching, caressing or fondling of the breasts,
buttocks, anus, genitals or pubic area.
B. It
shall be unlawful for any person, while on the premises of a commercial
establishment located within the City, 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 including the nipple
and areola or to expose to public view any device or covering which
is intended to give the appearance or simulate such areas of the female
breast as described in this Subsection.
C. It
shall be unlawful for any person, while on the premises of a commercial
establishment located within the City, at which alcoholic beverages
are offered for sale for consumption on the premises, to expose to
public view his/her genitals, pubic area, buttocks, anus or anal cleft
or cleavage or to employ and to expose to public view 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.
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.