FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 864

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES JONES (89) (Sponsor), PARKINSON, LOW AND FRAME (Co-sponsors).

2023L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To repeal section 311.020, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to intoxicating liquor.

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

            Section A. Section 311.020, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 311.020, to read as follows:

            311.020. The term "intoxicating liquor" as used in this chapter, shall mean and include alcohol for beverage purposes, alcoholic, spirituous, vinous, fermented, malt, or other liquors, or combination of liquors, a part of which is spirituous, vinous, or fermented, and all preparations or mixtures for beverage purposes, containing in excess of one-half of one percent by volume [except for nonintoxicating beer as defined in section 312.010, RSMo]. All beverages having an alcoholic content of less than one-half of one percent by volume shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter, but subject to inspection as provided by sections 196.365 to 196.445, RSMo.

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