SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 912
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR MATHEWSON.
Read 1st time January 10, 2002, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
3571S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 311.178, RSMo, relating to liquor licenses, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 311.178, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 311.178, to read as follows:
311.178. 1. Any person possessing the qualifications and meeting the requirements of this chapter who is licensed to sell intoxicating liquor by the drink at retail for consumption on the premises in a [first class] county of the first classification having a charter form of government and not containing all or part of a city with a population of over three hundred thousand, may apply to the supervisor of liquor control for a special permit to remain open on each day of the week until 3:00 a.m. of the morning of the following day. The time of opening on Sunday may be 11:00 a.m. The provisions of this section and not those of section 311.097 regarding the time of closing shall apply to the sale of intoxicating liquor by the drink at retail for consumption on the premises on Sunday. The premises of such an applicant [must] shall be located in an area which has been designated as a convention trade area by the governing body of the county and the applicant [must] shall meet at least one of the following conditions:
(1) The business establishment's annual gross sales for the year immediately preceding the application for extended hours equals one hundred fifty thousand dollars or more; or
(2) The business is a resort. For purposes of this [section] subsection, a "resort" is defined as any establishment having at least sixty rooms for the overnight accommodation of transient guests and having a restaurant located on the premises.
2. Any person possessing the qualifications and meeting the requirements of this chapter who is licensed to sell intoxicating liquor by the drink at retail for consumption on the premises in a county of the third classification without a township form of government having a population of more than twenty-three thousand five hundred but less than twenty-three thousand six hundred inhabitants, a county of the third classification without a township form of government having a population of more than nineteen thousand three hundred but less than nineteen thousand four hundred inhabitants or a county of the first classification without a charter form of government with a population of at least thirty-seven thousand inhabitants but not more than thirty-seven thousand one hundred inhabitants, may apply to the supervisor of liquor control for a special permit to remain open on each day of the week until 3:00 a.m. of the morning of the following day. Other provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding, a resort as herein defined which holds a special permit authorized by this subsection shall be permitted to sell, on its premises and to overnight transient quests of the resort, intoxicating liquor by the drink between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. The time of opening on Sunday may be 11:00 a.m. The provisions of this section and not those of section 311.097 regarding the time of closing shall apply to the sale of intoxicating liquor by the drink at retail for consumption on the premises on Sunday. The applicant shall meet all of the following conditions:
(1) The business establishment's annual gross sales for the year immediately preceding the application for extended hours equals one hundred thousand dollars or more; and
(2) The business is a resort. For purposes of this subsection, a "resort" is defined as any establishment having at least seventy-five rooms for the overnight accommodation of transient guests, having at least three thousand square feet of meeting space and having a restaurant located on the premises.
3. An applicant granted a special permit [under] pursuant to this section shall, in addition to all other fees required by this chapter, pay an additional fee of three hundred dollars a year payable at the time and in the same manner as its other license fees.
[3.] 4. The provisions of this section allowing for extended hours of business shall not apply in any incorporated area wholly located in any [first class] county of the first classification having a charter form of government which does not contain all or part of a city with a population of over three hundred thousand inhabitants until the governing body of such incorporated area shall have by ordinance or order adopted the extended hours authorized by this section.