Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-10-14
PROPOSITION NO. 10.
REFERENDUM ORDERED BY THE
PETITION OF THE PEOPLE.

PROPOSITION NO. 10.
REFERENDUM ORDERED BY THE
PETITION OF THE PEOPLE.
House bill No. s35, enacted by fttIeth
General Assembly. Prohibiting manufac-
ture, sale, gift, advertisement or trans
portatlon of intoxicating liquors within,
Into or from this state, except under GER
tain condltions; providing for search of
intoxicating liquors uniaWfully sold; de-
clarlng certain buildings or certain places
used In unlawful manufacture of intoxl-
eating liquors nuisances and giving right
Of abatement; giving persons Injured by
Intoxicated persons right OF action against
Illegal liquor sellers; regulating those
who manufacture, sell or prescribe for
ethyl alcohol or wine defining lntoxicat-
Ing liquor and other words; providing for
enforcement of said act and prescribing
penalties for violation of same.
AN ACT prohibiting the manufacture.
sale, gift, advertisement or transporta-
ton Of Intoxicating liquors within, into
or from the state of Missouri. except
for certain purposes and under certain
regulations; providing for search and
seizure of Intoxicating liquors unlaw-
fully manufactured or sold; declaring
certain buildings, structures and things
used in the unlawful manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors TO be null
sances and giving the right of abate-
ment; establishing the right of action
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persons against illegal liquor sellers;
prescribing additional duties for prose-
cutting attorneys, sheriffs and other
law-enforcing officers; requiring per-
mits for manufacturers, sellers or ply
sicians who manufacture, sell or write
prescriptions for ethyl alcohol or wine.
and providing for the revocation of
anne; defining intoxicating liquors n
other words and phrases; making en-
ployes and agents responsible for viola
ton of this act by a corporations; de-
claring intoxicating liquors Illegally
manufactured or sold to be contraband:
fixing venue of cases under the act;
and with penalties for violation; II
providing when same. h be in force
and effect.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section /. 1t shall be unlawful for any
person, firm, association or corporation,
his. its or their agents or employees, to
manufacture, sell, give away or trans
port intoxicating liquors with, import
the same into, or export the same from
the state of Missouri for beverage pur-
poses, except as hereinafter provided.
Section 2. That the provisions of this
act shall not be construed so as to pre-
vent the manufacture, Importation, eX-
portation, or sale of d%enatured alcohol,
or of cider for the purpose of making
vinegar or Notwithstanding cider, or of
denatured rum for use only in the indus
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alcohol, or of ethyl alcohol in non-potable
toilet, medicinal, antiseptic, culinary, or
other non-beverage preparations, or of
ethyl alcohol for scientific, pharmaceuti-
cal, mechanical, or industrial purposes,
or to prevent the sale of ethyl alcohol
or wine by pharmacists or druggists as
provided herein for medicinal or sacra-
mental purposes.
Section 8. 1t shall be unlawful for any
person, firm, association, or corporation
to manufacture or sell ethyl alcohol or
wine within the state of Missouri for nom
beverage purposes without q permit
therefor as herein provided. All persons,
firms or corporations desiring TO manu-
facture or sell ethyl alcohol or wine shall
file with the clerk of the county court
of the county, in which such persons,
firm or corporation resides or has his
place of business, an application for
the case may be- ethyl alcohol or
wine, at least ten G0) days before
the hearing thereon. Said application
shall be in such form as may be pre-
scribed by the Encouragement of Mis-
souri,. The said clerk of the county court
shall present said application to the
county court of said county at its next
regular term and If the Judges OF said
court are satisfied that the allegations Of
the application are true, that the appl1-
cant is twenty-one CID years of age
and not addicted to the use of intoxtcat-
ing liquors a. a beverage; and that the
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law-abiding, the said court may issue a
permit to such applicant to. manufacture
or sell las the case may be- ethyl aico-
hol or wine for a period OF n year I'M
less revoked or suspended as herein pro-
vided. Said permit shall be in such form
as nay be prescribed by the attorney
general of Missouri. Applicants shall pay
to the county clerk for permits issued as
above set out, the following fees, to-wit:
For each manufacturing permit the sum
of fifty dollars (%$50.00); for each selling
permit the sum of ten dollar (S10.00).
All fees collected by the county clerk I'M
der this section shall be paid over month
ly to the county treasurer. All holders
of permits granted as herein provided,
shall, on or before the 9Th day of each
month, for the calendar month preceding,
file a statement, verified by the oath of
such permit holder, with the clerk of
the county court of the county In which
such permit holder is engaged in business,
showing the amount and kinds of intoxi-
eating liquors manufactured or received
during said month with names and adj
dresses of the persons, firms or corpor-
atoms from whom received, and the
amount and kin Of Intoxicating liquors
sold or otherwise used or disposed OF
during said month with the names and
porationS to whom sold or delivered, and
the amount and kind OF intoxicating
liquor on hand at the end of said month.
Section 4. 1t shall be Unlawful for any
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OF Missouri, holding a permit to manu-
facture or sell ethyl alcohol or wine un-
der this act, to sell, give away, or other
wise dispose of ethyl alcohol or wine ex-
cept on a written application, dated and
signed, of IN individual or an authorized
agent of a firm or corporation engaged
in the manufacture of incompatible toilet
medicinal, antiseptic, culinary, or other
uon-beverage preparations, or of the
owner or manager of a hospital, museum
laboratory, industrial or educational in
stutional using ethyl alcohol or wine fol
scientific, pharmaceutical, mechanical, in
dustrial or other n~on-beverage purposes
or Of a regularly registered and practic'
Ing dentist, physician or veterinarian us.
ing ethyl alcohol or wine for non-bever.
age purposes in the practice of his pro
fession; or of a minister, priest, clergy
man or authorized officer having eharg,
of a church using wine for sacramento
purposes; provided, that n druggist
pharmacist, or proprietor of a drug store
holding q permit to sell ethyl alcohol o.
wine under this act, may sell or give ava.
ethyl alcohol or wine on a written pre-
scription, dated and signed, first had an,
obtained from some regularly registeret
and practicing physician, and then onl.
when such physician h state in sucl
prescription the name of the person TO
whom the same is prescribed, and tina
such ethyl alcohol or wine lis preseribel
as a necessary remedy; provided further
that each permit holder selling or giylni
away or otherwise ~disposing Of ethyl aIcO
hol or wine under this section shall at
tach a 0 of each application and pre-
~scription received during each month t
the monthly report required to be file
with the clerk Of the county court unde
the provisions Of section 8 of this act
Any permit holder who shall violate an,
OF The provisions of this section, or an
person who shall make a false statemen
In an application for ethyl alcohol o
wine, shall be deemed guilty Of a mis-
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