Persons eighteen years of age or older may sell or handle intoxicating liquor, when
People under 21 cannot sell alcohol in Missouri, but 18-to-20-year-olds are allowed to do some alcohol-related jobs. At a licensed store, they can stock shelves, set up displays, run the cash register, take payment, and bag alcohol for customers to take home — but they cannot deliver alcohol away from the store. At warehouses or wholesale places that don't sell directly to customers, 18-year-olds can handle alcohol for storage and distribution purposes. At restaurants where at least half of all sales is food, 18-year-olds can serve or take payment for alcohol as a waiter or waitress, but they still cannot mix drinks or serve alcohol from behind a bar.
311.300. Persons eighteen years of age or older may sell or handle , when. — 1. Except as provided in this section, no person under the age of twenty-one years shall sell or assist in the sale or of intoxicating liquor.
2. In any place of business licensed in accordance with section 311.200, persons at least eighteen years of age may stock, arrange displays, operate the cash or scanner connected to a cash register and accept payment for, and sack for carryout, intoxicating liquor. of intoxicating liquor away from the licensed business cannot be performed by anyone under the age of twenty-one years. Any who employs any person under the age of twenty-one years, as by this , shall, when at least fifty percent of the licensee's does not consist of nonalcoholic sales, have an employee twenty-one years of age or older on the during all hours of operation.
3. In any , warehouse, , or similar place of business which stores or intoxicating liquor but which does not sell intoxicating liquor , persons at least eighteen years of age may be employed and their duties may include the handling of intoxicating liquor for all purposes except consumption, sale at retail, or dispensing for consumption or sale at retail.
4. Any licensed this chapter may employ persons of at least eighteen years of age to:
(1) Rotate, stock and arrange displays at retail establishments licensed to sell intoxicating liquor; and
(2) Unload delivery vehicles and intoxicating liquor into licensed premises if such persons are supervised by a delivery vehicle driver who is twenty-one years of age or older.
5. Persons eighteen years of age or older may, when acting in the capacity of a waiter or waitress, accept payment for or serve intoxicating liquor in places of business which sell food for if at least fifty percent of all sales in those places consists of food; provided that nothing in this section shall authorize persons under twenty-one years of age to mix or serve across the bar intoxicating beverages.
(RSMo 1939 § 4885, A. 1949 S.B. 1114, A.L. 1969 S.B. 37, A.L. 1971 H.B. 173, A.L. 1976 S.B. 487, H.B. 1367, A.L. 1981 S.B. 128, A.L. 1996 S.B. 933, A.L. 1997 H.B. 63, A.L. 2009 H.B. 132, A.L. 2019 S.B. 197)
Tap any gold-underlined word to see what it means.
Red section numbers link to that law.
Legal information, not legal advice. Always confirm with the official source at revisor.mo.gov.