HF 1079

as introduced - 81st Legislature (1999 - 2000) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to liquor; extending tour boat liquor license 
  1.3             season; amending Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 
  1.4             340A.404, subdivision 8. 
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 340A.404, 
  1.7   subdivision 8, is amended to read: 
  1.8      Subd. 8.  [LAKE SUPERIOR, ST. CROIX RIVER, AND MISSISSIPPI 
  1.9   RIVER TOUR BOATS.] (a) The commissioner may issue an on-sale 
  1.10  intoxicating liquor license to a person regularly engaged, on an 
  1.11  annual or seasonal basis, in the business of offering tours by 
  1.12  boat on Lake Superior and adjacent bays, the St. Croix river, 
  1.13  and the Mississippi river.  The license shall authorize the sale 
  1.14  of intoxicating liquor between May 1 and October November 1 for 
  1.15  consumption on the boat while underway or attached to a dock or 
  1.16  other mooring.  No license may be issued unless each boat used 
  1.17  in the tour business regularly sells meals in the place where 
  1.18  intoxicating liquor is sold. 
  1.19     (b) All sales of intoxicating liquor made on a boat while 
  1.20  it is attached to a dock or other mooring are subject to any 
  1.21  restrictions on the sale of liquor prescribed by the governing 
  1.22  body of the city where the boat is attached, or of a county when 
  1.23  it is attached outside a city.  A governing body may prohibit 
  1.24  liquor sales within its jurisdiction but may not require an 
  1.25  additional license, or require a fee or occupation tax, for the 
  2.1   sales.