(A) License authorized.
(1) Notwithstanding any provision of the city code to the contrary, the Council may issue a license for the temporary on-sale of liquor in connection with a social event sponsored by the licensee.
(2) The license may provide that the licensee may contract with the holder of a full-year on-sale license, issued by the city, for liquor catering services.
(B) Applicant.
(1) A club or charitable, religious or other non-profit organization in existence for at least three years, a political committee registered under M.S. § 10A.14, as it may be amended from time to time, or a state university, a temporary license for the on-sale of intoxicating liquor in connection with a social event within the municipality sponsored by the licensee. The city may issue to a brewer who manufactures fewer than 3,500 barrels of malt liquor in a year a temporary license for the on-sale of intoxicating liquor in connection with a social event within the municipality sponsored by the brewer. The terms and conditions specified for temporary licenses under division (A) above shall apply to a license issued under this division (B)(1); except that, the requirements of M.S. § 340A.409, subd. 1 to 3a, as it may be amended from time to time, shall apply to the license.
(2) The city may issue to a farm winery licensed under M.S. § 340A.315, as it may be amended from time to time, a temporary license for the on-sale at a county fair located within the municipality of intoxicating liquor produced by the farm winery. The licenses are subject to the terms, including a license fee, imposed by the issuing municipality and all laws and ordinances governing the sale of intoxicating liquor not inconsistent with this section.
(C) Terms and conditions of license.
(1) No license is valid until approved by the Commissioner.
(2) No license shall be issued for more than four consecutive days.
(3) All licenses and licensees are subject to all provisions of statutes and the city code relating to liquor sale and licensing. The licensee shall provide proof of financial responsibility coverage and, in the case of catering by a full-year on-sale licensee, the caterer shall provide proof of the extension of the coverage to the licensed premises.
(4) Licenses may authorize sales on premises other than those owned or permanently occupied by the licensee.
(D) Insurance required.
(1) The Council may, but at no time shall it be under any obligation whatsoever to, grant a temporary liquor license on premises owned or controlled by the city. Any such license may be conditioned, qualified or restricted as the Council sees fit.
(2) If the premises to be licensed are owned or under the control of the city, the applicant shall file with the city, prior to issuance of the license, a certificate of liability insurance coverage in at least the sum of $50,000 for injury to any one person, $100,000 for injury to more than one person and $10,000 for property damage, naming the city as an insured during the license period.
(Prior Code, § 5.41) (Ord. 47, Third Series, effective 3-24-1988; Ord. 176, Third Series, effective 8-3-1995; Ord. 335, Third Series, effective 6-26-2014)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see M.S. § 340A.404