SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 2148

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE PORTWOOD.

Read 1st time March 12, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal sections 316.150 and 316.155, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to festival licenses.



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

Section A. Sections 316.150 and 316.155, RSMo, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 316.150 and 316.155, to read as follows:

316.150. As used in sections 316.150 to 316.185, the following terms mean:

(1) "County", any county of this state except a [county having a charter form of government and having a population of nine hundred thousand inhabitants or more and no] city not within a county which exercises county functions;

(2) "County clerk", the clerk of the county commission or governing body of a county;

(3) "Festival", any music festival, dance festival, "rock" festival, "rave", or similar musical activity likely to attract five [thousand] hundred or more people at such an activity which will continue uninterrupted for a period of twelve hours or more, at which music is provided by paid or amateur performers or by prerecorded means, and which is held at any place within this state, and to which members of the public are invited or admitted for a charge. It shall not include a county fair or youth fair approved by the Missouri department of agriculture, or any activity conducted by any current or future ongoing licensed business in a permanent location[.];

(4) "Rave", an all-night dance party, especially one where techno, house, or other electronically synthesized music is played;

(5) "Sheriff", the sheriff of any county in this state.

316.155. No person shall operate, maintain, conduct, advertise, or sell, or furnish tickets for a festival in any county in this state unless [he] such person first obtains a license from that county to operate, maintain, or conduct the festival. This provision shall not apply to [counties of the first class having a charter form of government and having a population of nine hundred thousand inhabitants or more and no] any city not within a county which exercises county functions.


Missouri House of Representatives