(A) City Council findings. The City Council makes the following findings regarding the need to enact additional sale provisions governing persons selling or furnishing alcoholic beverages pursuant to a caterer's permit issued pursuant to M.S. § 340A.404, Subd. 12.
(1) Minnesota Statutes § 340A.404, Subd. 12, authorizes the holder of a caterer's permit to provide alcoholic beverages at unlicensed locations provided that the sale is incidental to a larger food service. The City Council enacts the following sale provisions in order to preserve the incidental nature of the caterer's permit and to preserve the underlying state and local framework for permanent on-sale intoxicating liquor licenses.
(2) The issuance of a caterer's permit does not allow a person to in effect operate a permanent on- sale intoxicating liquor establishment; rather it entitles the person to provide temporary alcoholic beverages as an incidental part of a food service that prepares meals at special locations apart from the licensee's permanent location. The location requirements in this section for the sale of alcoholic beverages at catered events are enacted to assure compliance with existing state and local provisions regarding on-sale licenses.
(3) Numerous events conducted at one location where alcoholic beverages are provided by caterers thwarts the licensing scheme for permanent on-sale intoxicating liquor establishments.
(B) Sale provisions. Events that are catered in accordance with M.S. § 340A.404, Subd. 12 shall comply with the following additional sale provisions:
(1) No one location shall have more than 48 days of catered events in one calendar year at which alcoholic beverages are served to the general public, and in no case shall any one such event be for more than four consecutive days.
(2) Notice to the license section of the catered event shall be provided seven days prior to the event.
(3) A special event license under this chapter shall be required for any event at which 5,000 or more people are expected to attend the function or event.
(Ord. 707, passed 6-21-2011; Am. Ord. 710, passed 11-15-2011) Penalty, see § 117.600