HOUSE BILL NO. 2057 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE VERNETTI.
3896H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT To amend chapter 311, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the establishment of certain entertainment districts.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 311, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be 2 known as section 311.083, to read as follows: 311.083. 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean: 2 (1) "Common area", any public area within an entertainment district and any 3 area of a public right-of-way that is within the entertainment district. "Common area" 4 shall not include areas open to the public that are located within an establishment 5 licensed under this chapter; 6 (2) "Entertainment district", any area in any county that borders on or that 7 contains part of a lake with not less than one thousand miles of shoreline and that: 8 (a) Is located in any city with more than four thousand four hundred but fewer 9 than four thousand nine hundred inhabitants and partially located in a county with 10 more than forty thousand but fewer than fifty thousand inhabitants; 11 (b) Contains a combination of entertainment venues, bars, nightclubs, 12 restaurants, and other licensed establishments and common areas; and 13 (c) Is designated as such by an ordinance of the governing body of the city; 14 (3) "Portable bar", any bar, table, kiosk, cart, or stand that is not a permanent 15 fixture and can be moved from place to place. 16 2. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter to the contrary, any 17 person who possesses the qualifications required under this chapter, and who meets the
EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language. HB 2057 2
18 requirements of and complies with the provisions of this chapter, may apply for, and the 19 supervisor of alcohol and tobacco control may issue, an entertainment district special 20 license to sell intoxicating liquor by the drink for retail for consumption dispensed from 21 one or more licensed establishments including, but not limited to, portable bars within 22 the entertainment district, until 1:30 a.m. on Mondays through Saturdays and from 6:00 23 a.m. on Sundays and until 1:30 a.m. on Mondays. 24 3. An applicant granted an entertainment district special license under this 25 section shall pay a license fee of three hundred dollars per year. 26 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, on such 27 days and at such times during the hours a licensee is allowed under this chapter to sell 28 alcoholic beverages, licensed establishments holding an entertainment district special 29 license under this section, may allow persons to leave the licensed premises located in 30 portions of the entertainment district with an alcoholic beverage and enter upon and 31 consume the alcoholic beverage within other licensed establishments and common areas 32 located in portions of the entertainment district. No person shall take any alcoholic 33 beverage or alcoholic beverages outside the boundaries of the entertainment district. 34 5. Every licensee within the entertainment district shall serve alcoholic 35 beverages in containers that display and contain the licensee's trade name or logo or 36 some other mark that is unique to that license and licensee. 37 6. The holder of an entertainment district special license is solely responsible for 38 alcohol violations occurring on its premises, including any portable bar, and in any 39 common area. 40 7. The governing body of the city in which the entertainment district is located 41 shall be authorized to adopt by ordinance procedures for approval or rejection of such 42 entertainment districts as well as rules and regulations for conduct and enforcement 43 thereof consistent with this section. ✔
Statutes affected: