SF 630

as introduced - 79th Legislature (1995 - 1996) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to alcoholic beverages; removing statutory 
  1.3             minimum restaurant seating capacities and permitting 
  1.4             the local license issuing authority to establish 
  1.5             minimum restaurant seating capacities; amending 
  1.6             Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 340A.101, subdivision 
  1.7             25. 
  1.8   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.9      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 340A.101, 
  1.10  subdivision 25, is amended to read: 
  1.11     Subd. 25.  [RESTAURANT.] "Restaurant" is an establishment, 
  1.12  other than a hotel, under the control of a single proprietor or 
  1.13  manager, where meals are regularly prepared on the premises and 
  1.14  served at tables to the general public, and having a minimum 
  1.15  seating capacity for guests in the following minimum numbers: as 
  1.16  prescribed by the appropriate license issuing authority.  
  1.17    (a)  First class cities                  50
  1.18    (b)  Second and third class cities
  1.19         and statutory cities of over
  1.20         10,000 population                   30
  1.21    (c)  Unincorporated or unorganized
  1.22         territory other than in Cook,
  1.23         Itasca, Lake, Lake of the Woods, 
  1.24         and St. Louis counties             100 
  1.25    (d)  Unincorporated or unorganized
  1.26         territory in Cook, Itasca, Lake,
  2.1          Lake of the Woods, and St. Louis 
  2.2          counties                            50
  2.3      In the case of classes (b) and (c) above, the governing 
  2.4   body of a city or county may prescribe a higher minimum number. 
  2.5   In fourth class cities and statutory cities under 10,000 
  2.6   population, minimum seating requirements are those prescribed by 
  2.7   the governing body of the city.