FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 340

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES HOPPE AND GRAHAM (Co-sponsors).

Read 1st time January 11, 2001 and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 311.680, RSMo 2000, relating to liquor control, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject, with penalty provisions.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 311.680, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 311.680, to read as follows:

311.680. 1. Whenever it shall be shown, or whenever the supervisor of liquor control has knowledge, that a person licensed hereunder has not at all times kept an orderly place or house, or has violated any of the provisions of this chapter, the supervisor of liquor control may, warn, place on probation on such terms and conditions as the supervisor of liquor control deems appropriate for a period not to exceed twelve months, suspend or revoke the license of that person, but the person shall have ten days' notice of the application to warn, place on probation, suspend or revoke the person's license prior to the order of warning, probation, revocation or suspension issuing.

2. Any wholesaler licensed pursuant to this chapter or chapter 312, RSMo, in lieu of, or in addition to, the warning, probation, suspension or revocation authorized in subsection 1 of this section, may be assessed a civil penalty by the supervisor of liquor control of not less than one hundred dollars or more than twenty-five hundred dollars for each violation.

3. Any solicitor licensed pursuant to this chapter or chapter 312, RSMo, in lieu of the suspension or revocation authorized in subsection 1 of this section, may be assessed a civil penalty or fine by the supervisor of liquor control of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars for each violation.

4. Any retailer with less than five thousand occupant capacity, licensed pursuant to this chapter or chapter 312, RSMo, in lieu of the suspension or revocation authorized by subsection 1 of this section, may be assessed a civil penalty or fine by the supervisor of liquor control of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars for each violation.

5. Any retailer with five thousand or more occupant capacity, licensed pursuant to this chapter or chapter 312, RSMo, in lieu of the suspension or revocation authorized by subsection 1 of this section, may be assessed a civil penalty or fine by the supervisor of liquor control of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five thousand dollars for each violation.


Missouri House of Representatives