311.200. Licenses--retail liquor dealers--fees--applications. - Missouri Statutes

Licenses--retail liquor dealers--fees--applications.

311.200. 1. No license shall be issued for the sale of intoxicatingliquor in the original package, not to be consumed upon the premises wheresold, except to a person engaged in, and to be used in connection with, theoperation of one or more of the following businesses: a drug store, acigar and tobacco store, a grocery store, a general merchandise store, aconfectionery or delicatessen store, nor to any such person who does nothave and keep in his store a stock of goods having a value according toinvoices of at least one thousand dollars, exclusive of fixtures andintoxicating liquors. Under such license, no intoxicating liquor shall beconsumed on the premises where sold nor shall any original package beopened on the premises of the vendor except as otherwise provided in thislaw. For every license for sale at retail in the original package, thelicensee shall pay to the director of revenue the sum of one hundreddollars per year.

2. For a permit authorizing the sale of malt liquor not in excess offive percent by weight by grocers and other merchants and dealers in theoriginal package direct to consumers but not for resale, a fee of fiftydollars per year payable to the director of the department of revenue shallbe required. The phrase "original package" shall be construed and held torefer to any package containing three or more standard bottles of beer.Notwithstanding the provisions of section 311.290, any person licensedpursuant to this subsection may also sell malt liquor at retail between thehours of 9:00 a.m. and midnight on Sunday.

3. For every license issued for the sale of malt liquor at retail bydrink for consumption on the premises where sold, the licensee shall pay tothe director of revenue the sum of fifty dollars per year. Notwithstandingthe provisions of section 311.290, any person licensed pursuant to thissubsection may also sell malt liquor at retail between the hours of 9:00a.m. and midnight on Sunday.

4. For every license issued for the sale of malt liquor and lightwines containing not in excess of fourteen percent of alcohol by weightmade exclusively from grapes, berries and other fruits and vegetables, atretail by the drink for consumption on the premises where sold, thelicensee shall pay to the director of revenue the sum of fifty dollars peryear.

5. For every license issued for the sale of all kinds of intoxicatingliquor, at retail by the drink for consumption on premises of the licensee,the licensee shall pay to the director of revenue the sum of three hundreddollars per year, which shall include the sale of intoxicating liquor inthe original package.

6. For every license issued to any railroad company, railway sleepingcar company operated in this state, for sale of all kinds of intoxicatingliquor, as defined in this chapter, at retail for consumption on its diningcars, buffet cars and observation cars, the sum of one hundred dollars peryear; except that such license shall not permit sales at retail to be madewhile such cars are stopped at any station. A duplicate of such licenseshall be posted in every car where such beverage is sold or served, forwhich the licensee shall pay a fee of one dollar for each duplicatelicense.

7. All applications for licenses shall be made upon such forms and insuch manner as the supervisor of alcohol and tobacco control shallprescribe. No license shall be issued until the sum prescribed by thissection for such license shall be paid to the director of revenue.

(RSMo 1939 § 4901, A.L. 1945 p. 1043, A.L. 1945 p. 1061, A. 1949 S.B. 1114, A.L. 1981 S.B. 126, A.L. 1983 H.B. 85, et al., A.L. 1995 S.B. 43, A.L. 2003 S.B. 298, A.L. 2009 H.B. 132)