City Council Meeting Date: August 22, 2017
To: Mayor and City Council
City Administrator
From: Deb Little, City Clerk
Monte Nelson, Chief of Police
Title
Consider Ordinance Amendment to Chapter 6 Alcoholic Beverages related to Sunday liquor sales.
Body
Action Requested:
The City Council is requested to have the second reading of an Ordinance amending Chapter 6 - Alcoholic Beverages related to Special Sunday on-sale licenses.
Summary Report:
The State of Minnesota recently approved changes to Sunday liquor sales for cocktail rooms permitting them to be open and conduct on-sale business on Sundays without restrictions related to service of food, if authorized by the municipality. The proposed changes to City Code Section 6-60 Special Sunday on-sale license (attachment 1) for cocktail rooms now mirror State law and the provisions for brewer taprooms. Taprooms may have, but are not required to serve food on any day of the week. Cocktail rooms were not required to serve food Monday - Saturday, but did not previously have the Sunday provision afforded to taprooms prior to this law change. The applicable changes were part of Chapter 4-S.F. No. 1 - Article 5, Liquor Sec. 3. signed by the Governor on May 30, 2017 as shown underlined below (attachment 2). The changes to this section were effective on July 1, 2017.
Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2016, section 340A.22, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
Subd. 2. Cocktail room license.
(a) A municipality, including a city with a municipal liquor store, may issue the holder of a microdistillery license under this chapter a microdistillery cocktail room license. A microdistillery cocktail room license authorizes on-sale of distilled liquor produced by the distiller for consumption on the premises of or adjacent to one distillery location owned by the distiller. Notwithstanding section 340A.504, subdivision 3, a cocktail room may be open and may conduct on-sale business on Sundays if authorized by the municipality. ...
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