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City of Bowling Green, MO
Pike County
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A. 
No license shall be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquor, as defined in this Chapter, within one hundred (100) feet of any school, church or other building regularly used as a place of religious worship, unless the applicant for the license shall first obtain the consent in writing of the Board of Aldermen, except that when a school, church or place of worship shall hereafter be established within one hundred (100) feet of any place of business licensed to sell intoxicating liquor, the license shall not be denied for this reason. Such consent shall not be granted until at least ten (10) days' written notice has been provided to all owners of property within one hundred (100) feet of the proposed licensed premises.
B. 
Subsection (A) of this Section shall not apply to a license issued by the Supervisor of Alcohol and Tobacco Control for the sale of intoxicating liquor pursuant to Section 311.218, RSMo., or to a license issued to any church, school, civic, service, fraternal, veteran, political, or charitable club or organization which has obtained an exemption from the payment of federal taxes.
C. 
Subsection (A) of this Section shall not apply to any premises holding a license issued before January 1, 2004, by the Supervisor of Alcohol and Tobacco Control for the sale of intoxicating liquor. To retain a license under this Subsection, the licensed premises shall not change license type, amend the legal description, or be without a liquor license for more than ninety (90) days.
[CC 1996 §600.200]
It shall be unlawful for any person in this City holding a retail liquor license to purchase any intoxicating liquor except from, by or through a duly licensed wholesale liquor dealer in this State. It shall be unlawful for such retail liquor dealer to sell or offer for sale any intoxicating liquor purchased in violation of the provisions of this Section. Any person violating any provision of this Section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
[CC 1996 §600.210]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person, holding a license for the sale of malt liquor only, to possess, consume, store, sell or offer for sale, give away or otherwise dispose of, upon or about the premises mentioned in said license, or, upon or about said premises, to suffer or permit any person to possess, consume, store, sell or offer for sale, give away or otherwise dispose of any intoxicating liquor of any kind whatsoever other than malt liquor brewed or manufactured by the method, in the manner, and of the ingredients required by the laws of this State. Whosoever shall violate any provision of this Section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof by any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished as in this Chapter provided as to misdemeanors. Upon such conviction becoming final, the license of the person so convicted shall forthwith, and without other or further action, order or proceeding, be deemed to have been revoked and shall by the licensee be forthwith surrendered to the City Clerk and canceled.
B. 
No license for the sale of malt liquor only shall be issued to any person having in his/her possession or on the premises to be licensed a Federal excise or occupational tax stamp or receipt designating such person or premises as the person or place for dealing in intoxicating liquor other than malt liquors or evidencing the payment of a tax for being a dealer in liquors other than malt liquors. If any person having a license for the sale of malt liquors only shall have in his/her possession or on the licensed premises a Federal excise or occupational tax stamp or special tax receipt designating such person or premises as the person or place for dealing in intoxicating liquors, except malt liquors, or evidencing the payment of a tax for being a dealer in liquor other than malt liquors, the license of such person shall be revoked by the City Clerk. In any prosecution for the violation of this Section, evidence that the defendant has in his/her possession or upon the premises in question a Federal excise or occupational tax stamp or special tax receipt designating such person or premises as the person or place for dealing in intoxicating liquors, other than malt liquors, or evidencing the payment of a tax for being a dealer in liquors, other than malt liquors, shall be deemed prima facie evidence of a violation of the provisions of this Section.
C. 
Any person holding a license for the sale of malt liquor only, who shall have in his/her possession or upon the licensed premises a Federal excise or occupational tax stamp or receipt designating such person or premises as the person or place for dealing in intoxicating liquors, except malt liquors, or evidencing the payment of a tax for being a dealer in liquor, other than malt liquors, or for a term to expire after the expiration of his/her permit shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
[CC 1996 §600.220]
No holder of a license under this Chapter, or any other person, shall for any purpose whatsoever mix or permit or cause to be mixed with any intoxicating liquor kept for sale, sold or supplied by him/her as a beverage any drug or form of methyl alcohol or impure form of alcohol.
[CC 1996 §600.240]
Any druggist may have in his/her possession intoxicating liquor purchased by him/her from a licensed vendor under a license pursuant to this law or intoxicating liquor lawfully acquired at the place of acquisition and legally transported into this State and lawfully inspected, gauged and labeled as provided for in this law; such intoxicating liquor to be used in connection with the business of a druggist in compounding medicines or as a solvent or preservant; provided, that nothing in this law shall prevent a regularly licensed druggist, after he/she procures a license therefor in compliance with this law, from selling intoxicating liquor in the original packages, but not to be drunk or the packages opened on the premises where sold; and provided further, that nothing in this Chapter shall be construed as limiting the right of a physician to prescribe intoxicating liquor in accordance with his/her professional judgment for any patient at any time or prevent a druggist from selling intoxicating liquor to a person on prescription from a regularly licensed physician as above provided.
[CC 1996 §600.250]
Any person who shall sell any intoxicating liquors, as defined in this Chapter, within this City which have not been inspected and labeled according to the provisions of this law shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and in addition thereto shall have his/her license or other authority, giving him/her the right to manufacture or sell said liquors in this State, revoked and shall not again receive any such license or other authority for a period of two (2) years thereafter.
[CC 1996 §600.260]
Upon conviction of any person under the provisions of this Chapter, it shall be the duty of the Municipal Judge to certify such conviction to the Board of Aldermen.