Vintage wine, municipalities may sell by sealed bids
A city or town that owns old wine from a private collection is allowed to sell it through a sealed bid process. A city worker gets a special license to run these sales, which can happen no more than six times a year. The wine cannot be opened or drunk on city property, but tasting events are allowed the day before bids are accepted. If the city worker puts a private-collection label on a bottle without checking that it actually came from a private collection, that worker can be charged with a minor crime and lose their license.
Classifications stated in the statute. Actual outcomes vary.
311.193. , ities may sell by s — of , — consumption on prohibited, when — shipping — wine tastings — violations, . — 1. As used in this section, the term "vintage wine" means bottled domestic white, rose, or sparkling wine which is not less than five years old, domestic red wine which is not less than ten years old, or imported white, rose, red, sparkling, or port wine which is not less than three years old.
2. any other of this chapter, any legally owning, controlling or possessing a private collection of vintage wines in their is to sell such vintage wine through a . The municipality may set a minimum and may the right to reject all bids. The municipality shall a municipal employee to sell vintage wine through a sealed bid process who shall ensure that each bottle of vintage wine sold from a private collection has a permanently label stating that the bottle was acquired from a private collection.
3. The is hereby authorized to a license to a municipal employee provided that no such license to sell vintage wine through a sealed bid process may be issued to any person, who:
(1) Has been of a or of any under this chapter;
(2) Either possesses a current license to sell at or , or previously possessed such a license which was .
4. The license to sell vintage wine through a sealed bid process shall be in addition to any license or requirements imposed by within the county or municipality.
5. No vintage wine sold through the sealed bid process shall be consumed on the premises of the municipality, nor shall any of vintage wine be opened on such premises, except as provided herein. A license to sell vintage wine through a sealed bid process shall be issued for a period of one year and shall authorize the designated municipal employee to sell such wine not more than six different times during that year. The license shall be issued in such form and upon completion of such as may be required by the supervisor of liquor control. The fee for such license shall be fifty dollars per year which shall be paid by the municipality.
6. The municipality legally owning, controlling, or possessing a private collection of vintage wines in their original packages may ship the vintage wine in such packages from any location within the state of Missouri to the designated municipal employee licensed this section. Upon receipt of the vintage wine the designated municipal employee shall be responsible for the storage and warehousing thereof, for the labeling thereof pursuant to the requirements of 2 of this section, for the of the vintage wine to the , and for the payment and of any applicable state and local taxes in connection with the sale.
7. The designated municipal employee licensed to sell vintage wine pursuant to this section may hold vintage wine tastings on the premises where the vintage wine is stored within the period of twenty-four hours immediately preceding the first date on which sealed bids will be accepted.
8. The designated municipal employee licensed pursuant to this section shall be subject to all restrictions, regulations, and provisions of this chapter governing the acquisition, storage, and sale of intoxicating liquor for which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this section.
9. A municipal employee designated by the municipality to sell vintage wine through a sealed bid process who affixes a label to any bottle of wine, as provided in subsection 2 of this section, without having determined through the exercise of that the wine was acquired from a private collection, shall be guilty of a and, upon a finding of or with regard to any such , shall be subject to a of the license issued pursuant to subsection 3 of this section.
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Source & history notes
(L. 2005 S.B. 262)
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