page_title: Alcohol laws of Missouri
section_title: Special allowance for open containers in public in Kansas City
hierarchical_section_title: Alcohol laws of Missouri / Open container / Special allowance for open containers in public in Kansas City
context_page_description: The alcohol laws of Missouri are among the most permissive in the United States. Missouri is known throughout the Midwest for its largely laissez-faire approach to alcohol regulation, in sharp contrast to the very strict alcohol laws of some of its neighbors, like Kansas and Oklahoma.
context_section_description: In 2005, anticipating Kansas City's new Power & Light District, a nine-block shopping, bar, and restaurant entertainment district in Downtown Kansas City, and after lobbying by the Cordish Company of Baltimore (the District's developer), the Missouri General Assembly passed a new law specifically allowing patrons of any "entertainment district" in Downtown Kansas City to remove any alcoholic beverage from any establishment in the district and carry it openly throughout the district, provided that the beverage is in a plastic cup marked with the logo of the establishment at which it was purchased.
  The City Council later legalized the possession of an open container in any portion not open to vehicular traffic of the Power & Light District, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, the Crossroads Arts District, the 18th and Vine Historic District, the Liberty Memorial, Crown Center, and the Union Hill neighborhood. The Power & Light District opened in the spring of 2008, and no law prohibits drinking there "in the street." It is one of only a few places in the United States where open containers are allowed in public.
caption: Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, where open containers have been allowed in the street in certain areas since the spring of 2008
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