Section 311.084

Title XX ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

Chapter 311

Effective - 28 Aug 2025, see footnote   

  311.084.  Entertainment district special licensee — definitions — application, fee, requirements. — 1.  As used in this section, the following terms mean:

  (1)  "Common area", any area designated as a common area in a development plan for an entertainment district approved by the governing body of the county, city, town, or village; any area of a public right-of-way that is adjacent to or within the entertainment district and has crossings well marked; and any other area identified in the development plan or district plan;

  (2)  "Entertainment district", any area located in any county that borders on or that contains part of a lake with not less than one thousand miles of shoreline that:

  (a)  Is located in any city with more than one thousand nine hundred but fewer than two thousand one hundred fifty inhabitants and partially located in a county with more than twenty-two thousand but fewer than twenty-five thousand inhabitants and with a county seat with more than one hundred but fewer than five hundred inhabitants; and

  (b)  Contains a combination of entertainment venues, bars, nightclubs, and restaurants;

  (3)  "Portable bar", any bar, table, kiosk, cart, or stand that is not a permanent fixture and can be moved from place to place.

  2.  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter to the contrary, any person who possesses the qualifications required by this chapter, and who meets the requirements of and complies with the provisions of this chapter, may apply for, and the supervisor of alcohol and tobacco control may issue, an entertainment district special license to sell intoxicating liquor by the drink for retail for consumption dispensed from one or more portable bars within the entertainment district from 6:00 a.m. until 3:00 a.m. on the following day, Monday through Saturday, and from 6:00 a.m. until 1:30 a.m. the following day on Sunday.

  3.  An applicant granted an entertainment district special license under this section shall pay a license fee of three hundred dollars per year.

  4.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, the holder of the entertainment district special license, at its sole discretion, shall determine when and where a licensee is allowed under this chapter to sell alcoholic beverages.  Persons may be allowed to leave licensed establishments located in portions of the entertainment district with an alcoholic beverage and enter upon and consume the alcoholic beverage within other licensed establishments and common areas located in portions of the entertainment district.  No person shall take any alcoholic beverage or alcoholic beverages outside the boundaries of the entertainment district.  At times when a person is allowed to consume alcoholic beverages dispensed from portable bars and in common areas of all or any portion of the entertainment district, the entertainment district shall ensure that minors can be easily distinguished from persons of legal age buying alcoholic beverages.

  5.  Every licensee within the entertainment district shall serve alcoholic beverages in containers that display and contain the licensee's trade name or logo or some other mark that is unique to that license and licensee.

  6.  The holder of an entertainment district special license is solely responsible for alcohol violations occurring at its portable bar and in any common area.

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(L. 2025 H.B. 199)