FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 58

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE WARD.

Pre-filed December 1, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 311.240, RSMo 2000, relating to liquor licenses, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.

Section A. Section 311.240, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 311.240, to read as follows:

311.240. 1. On approval of the application and payment of the license tax provided in this chapter, the supervisor of liquor control shall grant the applicant a license to conduct business in the state for a term to expire with the thirtieth day of June next succeeding the date of such license. A separate license shall be required for each place of business. Of the license tax to be paid for any such license, the applicant shall pay as many twelfths as there are months (part of a month counted as a month) remaining from the date of the license to the next succeeding July first.

2. No such license shall be effective, and no right granted thereby shall be exercised by the licensee, unless and until the licensee shall have obtained and securely affixed to the license in the space provided therefor an original stamp or other form of receipt issued by the duly authorized representative of the federal government, evidencing the payment by the licensee to the federal government of whatever excise or occupational tax is by any law of the United States then in effect required to be paid by a dealer engaged in the occupation designated in said license. Within ten days from the issuance of said federal stamp or receipt, the licensee shall file with the supervisor of liquor control a photostat copy thereof, or such duplicate or indented and numbered stub therefrom as the federal government may have issued to the taxpayer with the original.

3. Every license issued under the provisions of this chapter shall particularly describe the premises at which intoxicating liquor may be sold thereunder, and such license shall not be deemed to authorize or permit the sale of intoxicating liquor at any place other than that described therein.

4. Applications for renewal of licenses must be filed on or before the first day of May of each calendar year. Upon compliance by the applicant with all other requirements provided by this chapter and any regulations promulgated pursuant to the authority thereof, the supervisor of liquor control shall grant to any applicant for license renewal who has held a valid license for at least two years, and who has received no citation for violation of the provisions of this chapter or regulations promulgated pursuant to the authority thereof during the two immediately preceding years, a license renewal upon payment of the prescribed fee and submission of a signed application form, of which notarization shall not be required.

Missouri House of Representatives