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(A) Location and employees. A municipal liquor dispensary shall be at such place at the City Council shall determine and may be either leased or owned by the city. It shall be in the charge of a person known as the manager, who shall have such assistants as may be necessary. All employees, including the manager, shall hold their positions at the pleasure of the Council. No person under the age of 18 shall be employed in the store.
(B) Dispensary Fund. A Liquor Dispensary Fund is hereby created into which all revenues received from the operation of the dispensary shall be paid and from which all operating expenses shall be paid. Any surplus accumulating in this Fund may, from time to time, be transferred to the General Fund by resolution of the City Council and expended for any municipal purpose.
The hours of operation and days of sale shall be those set by M.S. Ch. 340A, as it may be amended from time to time, except that the City Council may, by ordinance or resolution, provide for more restrictive hours. The dispensary shall not be open for business of any kind during the hours when sales of intoxicating liquor are prohibited.
(Prior Code, § 3-3-5) (Ord. 143, passed 10-22-1984; Ord. 177, passed 6-26-1989; Ord. 668, passed 6-12-2017)
(A) No business other than the sale of liquor shall be carried on in the dispensary except the retail sale of cigars, cigarettes, all forms of tobacco, beer, and soft drinks, both on-sale and off-sale.
(B) No pool or billiard table shall be kept in any part of the dispensary.
(C) No person shall gamble on the premises and no gambling of any character shall be permitted thereon.
(D) No minor shall be permitted to remain on the dispensary premises.
(E) No liquor or beer shall be sold or served to a minor directly or indirectly.
(F) No minor shall misrepresent his or her age for the purpose of obtaining liquor or beer.
(G) No liquor or beer shall be served or sold to an intoxicated person.
(H) No person of known immoral character and no disorderly person shall be permitted on the dispensary premises.
(Prior Code, § 3-3-6) (Ord. 394, passed 7-14-2003) Penalty, see § 110.999
It shall be the duty of all police officers of the city to enforce the provisions of this subchapter and to search the premises and seize evidence of law violation and preserve the same as evidence against any person alleged to be in violation of this subchapter and to prepare the necessary processes and papers therefor.
(Prior Code, § 3-3-7)
LIQUOR BY THE DRINK
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