St. Louis Lambert International Airport and Kansas City International Airport, special permit, fee
Bars and restaurants inside St. Louis Lambert International Airport and Kansas City International Airport can get a special permit. With this permit, they can open as early as 4 a.m. and sell drinks every day, including Sundays. People can carry their drinks out of the bar into certain approved areas of the airport, but not onto any airplane. All drinks must be served in cups that show the business's name or logo. Getting this special permit costs an extra $300 per year on top of other license fees.
311.179. St. Louis Lambert International Airport and Kansas City International Airport, , fee. — 1. Any person possessing the qualifications and meeting the requirements of this chapter who is d to sell in an international airport located in a and with more than nine hundred fifty thousand inhabitants or in a with more than eighty-three thousand but fewer than ninety-two thousand inhabitants and with a with more than four thousand five hundred but fewer than five thousand inhabitants as the county seat may apply to the for a special permit which:
(1) Allows the located in the international airport in such county to open at 4 a.m. and sell intoxicating liquor by the drink at retail for consumption. The of this section and not those of section 311.293 regarding the time of opening shall apply to the sale of intoxicating liquor by the drink at retail for consumption on Sunday;
(2) Allows persons to leave licensed establishments with an alcoholic beverage and enter other airport areas located within such airport. No person shall take any alcoholic beverage or beverages outside such designated areas, including onto any airplane; and
(3) Requires every within such international airport to serve alcoholic beverages in containers that display and contain the licensee's or logo or some other mark that is unique to that license and licensee.
2. An granted a special permit 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.
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Source & history notes
(L. 2012 H.B. 1498, A.L. 2017 H.B. 115, A.L. 2021 S.B. 126)
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