Licenses
This law covers who can get a license to sell alcohol in Missouri and how much those licenses cost. Only certain types of stores — like drug stores, grocery stores, or tobacco shops — can get a license to sell sealed bottles of alcohol to take home, and that store must have at least $1,000 worth of other goods in stock. Different licenses have different yearly fees: $100 for selling sealed packages at retail stores, $50 for grocers selling sealed beer, $50 for selling beer by the drink on-site, and $300 for selling all kinds of liquor by the drink on-site. Grocery and drink-on-site beer license holders are allowed to sell beer on Sunday mornings starting at 6:00 a.m.
311.200. s — liquor dealers — fees — applications. — 1. No license shall be issued for the sale of in the , not to be consumed upon the where sold, except to a person engaged in, and to be used in connection with, the operation of one or more of the following businesses: a drug store, a cigar and tobacco store, a grocery store, a general store, a confectionery or delicatessen store, nor to any such person who does not have and keep in his or her store a stock of goods having a value according to invoices of at least one thousand dollars, of fixtures and . Under such license, no intoxicating liquor shall be consumed on the premises where sold nor shall any original package be opened on the premises of the except as otherwise provided in this law. For every license for sale in the original package, the shall pay to the the sum of one hundred dollars per year.
2. For a authorizing the sale of , as defined in section 311.490, by grocers and other merchants and dealers in the original package direct to consumers but not for , a fee of fifty dollars per year payable to the shall be required. The phrase "original package" shall be and held to refer to any package containing one or more standard bottles, cans, or pouches of beer. the of section 311.290, any person licensed this may also sell malt liquor at retail between the hours of 6:00 a.m. on Sundays and 1:30 a.m. on Mondays.
3. For every license issued for the sale of malt liquor, as defined in section 311.490, at retail by drink for where sold, the licensee shall pay to the director of revenue the sum of fifty dollars per year. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 311.290, any person licensed pursuant to this subsection may also sell malt liquor at retail between the hours of 6:00 a.m. on Sundays and 1:30 a.m. on Mondays.
4. For every license issued for the sale of malt liquor, as defined in section 311.490, and light wines containing not in excess of fourteen percent of alcohol made exclusively from grapes, berries and other fruits and vegetables, for consumption on the premises where sold, the licensee shall pay to the director of revenue the sum of fifty dollars per year.
5. For every license issued for the sale of all kinds of intoxicating liquor, 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 hundred dollars per year, which shall include the sale of intoxicating liquor in the original package.
6. For every license issued to any railroad company, railway sleeping car company operated in this state, for sale of all kinds of intoxicating liquor, as defined in this chapter, at retail for consumption on its dining cars, buffet cars and observation cars, the sum of one hundred dollars per year. A duplicate of such license shall be posted in every car where such beverage is sold or , for which the licensee shall pay a fee of one dollar for each .
7. All applications for licenses shall be made upon such forms and in such manner as the shall . No license shall be issued until the sum prescribed by this section 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, A.L. 2013 S.B. 121, A.L. 2014 S.B. 653, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1304 merged with S.B. 689, A.L. 2016 S.B. 919, A.L. 2021 S.B. 126)
(1954) of drug store which was located within zoning in city in which the sale of intoxicating liquors was not , held not entitled to a license from the city for sale of such liquor in . State ex rel. Barnett v. Sappington (A.), 266 S.W.2d 774.
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