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RSMo 311.298effective 28 Aug 1994

Certain holidays, sale by the drink on Sunday allowed

In plain English

On certain special Sundays — when New Year's Day, St. Patrick's Day, July 4th, or New Year's Eve falls on a Sunday, the Sundays before Memorial Day and Labor Day, and Super Bowl Sunday — a bar or restaurant with a drink license is allowed to sell alcohol that day during the same hours it normally could on a regular weekday. This overrides the usual Sunday rules.

Word-for-word law

311.298. Certain holidays, sale on Sunday allowed. — When January first, March seventeenth, July fourth, or December thirty-first falls on Sunday, and on the Sundays prior to Memorial Day and Labor Day and on the Sunday on which the championship game of the national football league is played, commonly known as "Super Bowl Sunday", any person having a to sell may be open for business and sell intoxicating liquor by the drink under the of his license on that day from the time and until the time which would be lawful on another day of the week, any provisions of section 311.290 or any other of law to the contrary.

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Source & history notes

(L. 1967 p. 425 § 1, A.L. 1969 H.B. 665, A.L. 1993 H.B. 63, A.L. 1994 S.B. 474)

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