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§ 600.040 Fees for Licenses.
§ 600.110 Drunkenness Prohibited at City Council Meetings and City Offices.
§ 600.120 Sale, Possession, Consumption at Municipal Golf Course.
§ 600.130 Consumption, Open Containers in Certain Areas Prohibited.
§ 600.140 Written Evidence of Authority to Occupy Premises Required.
§ 600.160 Forfeiture of License.
§ 600.170 Issuance of License — Time Limit for Operation.
§ 600.200 Hearing Before City Council.
§ 600.210 Violation — Penalty.
§ 600.230 Requirement of Conditional Use Permits for Establishments Located in the Central Business Districts.
Cross References — As to licenses and business regulations, ch. 605; as to dealing in alcoholic beverages by taxicab drivers or owners prohibited, §645.370.
State Law References — Liquor control law, ch. 311, RSMo.; municipal authority to require liquor licenses, §311.220, RSMo.
Section 600.040 Fees for Licenses.
Section 600.110 Drunkenness Prohibited at City Council Meetings and City Offices.
Section 600.120 Sale, Possession, Consumption at Municipal Golf Course.
Section 600.130 Consumption, Open Containers in Certain Areas Prohibited.
Section 600.140 Written Evidence of Authority to Occupy Premises Required.
Section 600.160 Forfeiture of License.
Section 600.170 Issuance of License — Time Limit for Operation.
Section 600.200 Hearing Before City Council.
Section 600.210 Violation — Penalty.
Section 600.230 Requirement of Conditional Use Permits for Establishments Located in the Central Business Districts.
No person shall sell or offer for sale intoxicating liquor in the City of Poplar Bluff without a currently valid liquor license issued by the City. A separate liquor license shall be required for each of the categories and subcategories of liquor sales in which the licensee desires to engage as set forth herein.
No person having a license issued pursuant to this Chapter, 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. on Sunday and 6:00 A.M. on Monday, upon or about his/her premises, except as otherwise authorized and licensed for Sunday sales. Any person licensed to sell intoxicating liquor by the drink shall keep a closed place during the aforementioned prohibited times.
No license shall be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquor, as defined in this Chapter, within one hundred (100) feet of any school, church or other building regularly used as a place of religious worship, unless the applicant for the license shall first obtain the consent in writing of the City Council, except that when a school, church or place of worship shall hereafter be established within one hundred (100) feet of any place of business licensed to sell intoxicating liquor, the license shall not be denied for this reason. Such consent shall not be granted until at least ten (10) days' written notice has been provided to all owners of property within one hundred (100) feet of the proposed licensed premises.
Containing not more than five percent (5%) of alcohol by weight: $300.00.
Containing not more than twenty-two percent (22%) of alcohol by weight: $150.00.
Containing not more than five percent (5%) of alcohol by weight: $75.00.
For the manufacture in quantities not exceeding seventy-five thousand (75,000) gallons of light wines containing not more than fourteen percent (14%) of alcohol by weight exclusively from grapes, berries and other fruits and vegetables grown in the State, for each five hundred (500) gallons or fraction thereof: $7.50.
A manufacturer hereunder may sell directly to the consumer at the winery in lots not exceeding five (5) gallons and to duly licensed wholesalers and retailers in lots of five (5) gallons or more.
For the sale at retail of all kinds of intoxicating liquors in the original package: $150.00.
For the sale of malt liquor and five percent (5%) beer by grocers and other merchants and dealers in the original package direct to consumers, but not for resale: $75.00.
For the sale of malt liquor by the drink for consumption on the premises where sold (five percent (5%) beer): $75.00.
This license shall also permit the sale of light wines containing not in excess of fourteen percent (14%) of alcohol by weight made exclusively from grapes, berries and other fruits and vegetables by the drink for consumption on the premises where sold.
For the sale of all kinds of intoxicating liquor by the drink for consumption on the premises where sold: $450.00.
This license shall also permit the sale of intoxicating liquor in the original package.
For the sale of intoxicating liquor in the original package at retail between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and Midnight on Sundays: $300.00.
State Law References — Amount of state fees, §§311.180 — 311.200, RSMo.; amount charged by city regulated, §311.220, RSMo.
The City may issue a temporary permit to caterers and other persons holding licenses to sell intoxicating liquor by the drink at retail for consumption on the premises pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter who furnish provisions and service for use at a particular function, occasion or event at a particular location other than the licensed premises, but not including a "festival" as defined in Chapter 316, RSMo. The temporary permit shall be effective for a period not to exceed one hundred sixty-eight (168) consecutive hours, and shall authorize the service of alcoholic beverages at such function, occasion or event during the hours at which alcoholic beverages may lawfully be sold or served upon premises licensed to sell alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. For every permit issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the permittee shall pay to the City an amount as set out in Section 600.040(14) above, or fraction thereof, for which the permit is issued.
Except as provided in Subsection (C), all provisions of the Liquor Control Law and the ordinances, rules and regulations of the City, in which is located the premises in which such function, occasion or event is held shall extend to such premises and shall be in force and enforceable during all the time that the permittee, its agents, servants, employees, or stock are in such premises. Except for Missouri-produced wines in the original package, the provisions of this Section shall not include the sale of packaged goods covered by this temporary permit.
Filing Of An Application. 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. Each application shall accurately describe the premises where the business is to be conducted. Each application shall accurately describe the premises where the business is to be conducted.
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 Council at its next meeting. Upon approval of the majority of the Council 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 Council shall conduct a hearing on the application for license renewal as provided in this Subsection.
Editor's Note — Ordinance no. 7389 §2, adopted January 7, 2013, repealed section 600.055 "liquor license" in its entirety. Former section 600.055 derived from R.O. 2007 §§5-34, 5-42; ord. no. 3750 §1, 3-2-70; ord. no. 3930 §1, 7-3-72; ord. no. 4113 §1, 12-2-74; and ord. no. 6966 §1, 5-7-07.
Persons Apparently Intoxicated Not To Be Provided With Intoxicating Liquor. It shall be unlawful for any licensee, or his/her employee or agent, to sell or supply intoxicating liquor or permit such to be sold or supplied, to a habitual drunkard or to any person who is under or apparently under the influence of intoxicating liquor.
Persons Under Twenty-One Not To Be On Premises. No person having a license under this Chapter shall allow any minor, unless accompanied by an adult over the age of twenty-one (21) years, to enter into or remain on the premises where intoxicating beverages for consumption on the premises are sold unless the premises are the type described or by implication referred to in Section 600.060(A).
List Of Current Employees To Be Kept On File With City Clerk. Every person operating a premises which is licensed under this Chapter and where the sales of alcoholic beverages sold for consumption on those premises constitutes more than fifty percent (50%) of the gross income from all sales of all items sold from said premises shall file with the City Clerk a current list of all employees working in said premises. Said list shall be kept current at all times and contain the name, age, address and date and place of birth of each employee. As used herein, the word "premises", in addition to meaning an entire building or structure, shall also mean any area within a building or structure that is set aside, operated, identifiable or promoted as a place engaged in the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises.
"Free Drinks" Not Allowed. No person having a license under this Chapter shall allow or permit any employee to accept free drinks from any customer while said employee is on duty.
Illegal Acts Prohibited On Premises.
No person having a license under this Chapter shall allow any person to come upon or remain on the licensed premises for the purpose of engaging in prostitution or other illegal act; nor shall such license holder allow any person to come upon or remain on the premises who is known to engage in prostitution.
No person licensed hereunder shall allow on the premises any fights or peace disturbances; nor shall they permit any lewd, indecent, profane or obscene language, songs or entertainment; nor any printed, obscene literature, pictures or advertising materials.
No person licensed hereunder shall allow or permit the licensed premises to be frequented or become the meeting place, hangout or rendezvous for known prostitutes or other immoral characters or those who are known to engage in the use, sale or distribution of narcotics or any other illegal activity or business.
Employees Not To Be Intoxicated While On Duty. No person licensed hereunder shall allow or permit any employee to be in an intoxicated condition while on duty.
Other Licenses Not Considered. The fact that a person having a license under this Chapter shall be or be part of or employed by a corporation or other business entity that has other business enterprises not licensed under this Chapter shall not eliminate the compliance by said person having a license under this Chapter with the provisions of this Section and all other provisions of this Chapter.
Suspension Or Revocation Of License — When — Manner. The Council may suspend or revoke the license of any person for cause shown. In such cases the City Clerk shall schedule a hearing before the Council not less than ten (10) days prior to the effective date of revocation or suspension, and prior to the hearing the Clerk shall give not less than ten (10) days' written notice specifying grounds for the suspension or revocation thereof to the licensee of the grounds upon which the license is sought to be revoked or suspended and the time, date and place of the hearing. Notice may be accomplished by personal delivery, U.S. mail or by posting on the licensed premises. The hearing shall be conducted in accordance with Section 600.100 of this Chapter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to remain at any meeting of the Poplar Bluff City Council or any department, board or commission of the City of Poplar Bluff while said person is in an intoxicated condition.
State Law Reference — Public drunkenness generally, §562.260, RSMo.
No person shall sell, possess, drink or consume intoxicating liquor, except for beer having an alcoholic content of no more than five percent (5%) within the boundaries of the Poplar Bluff Municipal Golf Course.
The sale, possession and consumption of all alcoholic beverages shall be suspended during the scheduled junior golf league matches and play.
Except as specifically provided for herein, no alcoholic beverages shall be otherwise offered for sale, possessed or consumed within the boundaries of the Poplar Bluff Municipal Golf Course.
Within five hundred (500) feet of any school, church or other building regularly used as a place of religious worship.
Whenever any person, partnership, association of persons or corporation shall apply to the City of Poplar Bluff for a license to sell intoxicating liquor by the drink for consumption on the premises, said application shall be accompanied by written evidence that the applicant has a right to occupy the premises wherein liquor is to be sold for the period for which the license is to be in effect.
No license for the sale, either at wholesale or retail, of intoxicating liquors shall be granted to any person where the proposed place of business is located in a block where at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the bona fide residents of said block owning at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the abutting front feet of said block are not engaged in commercial business in said block unless the applicant secures a petition signed by at least two-thirds (⅔) of the taxpaying adult residents of said block consenting to the issuance of said license.
If any person or persons licensed hereunder shall fail to keep at all times an orderly house or sells, gives away or otherwise disposes of or suffers the same to be done about his/her or their premises any intoxicating liquor in any quantity to any minor or otherwise violates the provisions of this Chapter, other applicable City ordinance or State or Federal law, in addition to other fines, penalties and forfeitures provided by City ordinances, State Statutes and Federal law, said person or persons shall be subject to the immediate forfeiture of the license granted under this Chapter.
All applications for a license required by this Article shall be filed with the office of the City Clerk. As a condition precedent to the issuance of a license under the provisions of this Chapter, the applicant must also procure a permit and license from the State under the provisions of Chapter 311, RSMo. Upon compliance by the applicant with the provisions of this Article and upon the finding by the City Clerk that the applicant is qualified and has complied with all applicable provisions of this Code of Ordinances and State law, the City Clerk shall issue a licenses provided by this Chapter.
Any applicant who is denied a license by the City Clerk may appeal that decision to the City Council. Upon a finding by a majority of the members elected to the Council that the applicant is qualified and has complied with all applicable provisions of this Code of Ordinances and State law, the Council shall direct the issuance to such applicant.
Any holding of a license shall be open for business within one hundred twenty (120) days after issued. Failure to do so shall be grounds for revocation of said license by action of the City Clerk.
The City Clerk, the City Manager or his/her designated representative shall notify the City Council of any violation by the licensee or his/her employees of any applicable provision of this Code, State or Federal law, rules or regulations so that the Council may review the matter and take any action deemed necessary under this Code.
Any license issued under this Article may be renewed upon application therefor and compliance with the provisions of this Article in the same manner as for the original issuance of such license.
Any license issued under the provisions of this Article may be suspended or revoked by the City Council for the violation by the licensee or his/her employees of any applicable provision of this Code, State or Federal law or City ordinances, rules or regulations. No person whose license has been revoked under this Section shall be issued another license hereunder for a period of one (1) year from such date of revocation. In the event any such license is suspended or revoked, no portion of the license fee shall be refunded to the licensee.
Whenever the City Council shall have reasonable cause to believe that a license holder has made any false statements in his/her application or violated any of the provisions of this, Chapter, the license holder shall be notified in writing setting out the alleged violation and shall set a time not sooner than five (5) days for the license holder to appear at a hearing before the City Council and show cause why said license should not be suspended or revoked. At the designated time, the City Council shall conduct a hearing of all of the evidence pertaining to the alleged violation. The City Council shall have the authority to conduct the hearing and prescribe reasonable rules in relation thereto. The City shall secure the services of a qualified verbatim court reporter who shall record the evidence. After hearing the evidence, the City Council shall have authority to dismiss the complaint, to suspend the license for a specified period of time or revoke the license permanently.
It is further provided that no license shall be transferred from person to person or from place to place after written notice to the license holder has been given by the City Council as provided herein and before final action has been taken by the City Council.
Unless a specific fine is referred to herein, upon conviction of a violation of the provisions of this Chapter, the offender shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished according to the general penalty provision of the Poplar Bluff Code of Ordinances. Further, any premises operated in violation of any of the provisions of this Chapter dealing with alcoholic beverages is hereby declared to be a public and common nuisance and it shall be the duty of the City Attorney to seek to abate such nuisance by injunctive or other relief available to the City under the Statutes of the State of Missouri or in the court of equity or law.
Licenses provided for and issued hereunder may be issued on a temporary basis if the State Supervisor of Liquor Control, prior to the issuance of the City of Poplar Bluff license or contemporaneously therewith, issues a temporary license or special certificate. In that event, the Poplar Bluff temporary license shall authorize the licensee to engage in and carry on the business that the permanent license calls for, for the identical period of time provided for in the State temporary license or special certificate. The Poplar Bluff temporary license shall expire or be extended, as the case may be, simultaneously with the State temporary license or special certificate. However, nothing to the contrary herein withstanding, any violation of the provisions of this Chapter will result in the suspension or revocation of the Poplar Bluff temporary license or regardless of the existence or effect of the State temporary license or special certificate.
No establishment shall sell or otherwise dispense any intoxicating liquor within the Central Business District of the City as defined in this Chapter without first having obtained a conditional use permit authorized by the City Council of the City. The term "establishment" shall include any bar, tavern or any private club owned or operated by a corporation, association, person or persons for a social, education or recreational purpose. The Central Business District shall be defined as the area bounded on the east by the east shore of Black River; on the west by the west right-of-way line of Seventh Street; on the south by the south right-of-way line of Park Avenue, including an imaginary line extending the right-of-way line of Park Avenue to the east shore of Black River and on the north by the north right-of-way line of Davidson Street, including an imaginary line extending the north right-of-way line of Davidson Street to the east shore of Black River; the east right-of-way line of North Second Street; the north right-of-way line of College Street; the west right-of-way line of North Main Street and the north right-of-way line of Lester Street.
No conditional use permit shall be issued for any such establishment and no application for such conditional use permit shall be accepted, unless the proposed establishment meets the spacing/density requirements as set forth in Section 600.035 of this Chapter and unless such establishment is spaced at least one thousand (1,000) feet from any similar on-premises establishment in all directions regardless of location of the other establishment. Said distance shall be measured from main entrance to main entrance of the buildings involved.
The spacing requirements of this Section shall not apply to restaurants. As used in this Subsection, "restaurants" shall include any business which derives a majority of its gross revenues from the sale of food, does not sell alcoholic beverages in the package and derives more than twenty percent (20%) of its gross revenues from the sale of alcoholic beverages by the drink.
Restaurants granted a conditional use permit under this Section and as defined in Subsection (C) shall not display any sign, light, advertisement or other material which promotes any brand of alcoholic beverage; nor shall restaurants store any container, package, bottle or can containing alcoholic beverages where they may be easily observed by the public prior to the time said beverages are served.
All conditional use permits granted under this Subsection shall be valid for such period of time as the City Council may, in its discretion, elect, except that said permit shall be valid for a period of not less than one (1) year and no more than three (3) years. Anyone granted a conditional use permit for said purposes must apply for renewal of said permit at least ninety (90) days prior to the expiration of said conditional use permit. Said application shall include a detailed accounting showing the permittee is in compliance with the terms of the Section.

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