§ 4-12. License required.

(a)

No person may directly or indirectly, on any pretence or by any device, sell, barter, keep for sale, or otherwise dispose of alcoholic beverages as part of a commercial transaction without having obtained a license issued by the city council.

(b)

No alcoholic beverages shall be sold or consumed or possessed in an open container on a street or public highway, in an automobile, or in a parking lot of an establishment currently holding a liquor license. The licensee shall post and maintain in a conspicuous place within the licensed premises at the exits clearly visible to customers: one sign 14½ inches wide by eight inches high, which states no alcoholic beverages are allowed beyond this point.

(c)

Any person licensed to sell intoxicating liquor at on-sale may sell 3.2 percent malt beverages at on-sale without further license.

(d)

The holder of an on-sale wine license who is also licensed to sell 3.2 percent malt liquors at on-sale, and whose gross receipts are at least 60 percent attributable to the sale of food and who carries liquor liability insurance in the limits set forth in M.S. § 34A.409, shall have the right to sell intoxicating malt liquors at on-sale without an additional license.

(e)

Subject to the approval of the state liquor control commissioner, an on-sale wine license may be issued to a licensed bed and breakfast facility, which license would authorize a bed and breakfast facility to furnish wine only to the registered guests of the facility.

(Ord. No. 1748, 7-23-2003)

State law reference

Requirement for state license, M.S. § 340A.401; authority for city to issue local license for certain sales of malt liquor, M.S. § 340A.403; authority for city to issue license for certain sales of intoxicating liquor and wine, M.S. § 340A.404.