2002 Minnesota Statutes

     340A.504 Hours and days of sale. 

    Subdivision 1.    3.2 percent malt liquor.  No sale of 
 3.2 percent malt liquor may be made between 1:00 a.m. and 8:00 
 a.m. on the days of Monday through Saturday, nor between 1:00 
 a.m. and 12:00 noon on Sunday, provided that an establishment 
 located on land owned by the metropolitan sports commission, or 
 the sports arena for which one or more licenses have been issued 
 under section 340A.404, subdivision 2, paragraph (c), may sell 
 3.2 percent malt liquor between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon on a 
 Sunday on which a sports or other event is scheduled to begin at 
 that location on or before 1:00 p.m. of that day. 

    Subd. 2.    Intoxicating liquor; on-sale.  No sale of 
 intoxicating liquor for consumption on the licensed premises may 
 be made: 

    (1) between 1:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. on the days of Monday 
 through Saturday; 

    (2) after 1:00 a.m. on Sundays, except as provided by 
 subdivision 3. 

    Subd. 2a.    Certain dispensing exempt.  Where a hotel 
 possessing an on-sale intoxicating liquor license places 
 containers of intoxicating liquor in cabinets in hotel rooms for 
 the use of guests staying in those hotel rooms, and a charge is 
 made for withdrawals from those cabinets, the dispensing of 
 intoxicating liquor from those cabinets does not constitute a 
 sale for purposes of subdivision 2. 

    Subd. 3.    Intoxicating liquor; Sunday sales; on-sale.  
 (a) A restaurant, club, bowling center, or hotel with a seating 
 capacity for at least 30 persons and which holds an on-sale 
 intoxicating liquor license may sell intoxicating liquor for 
 consumption on the premises in conjunction with the sale of food 
 between the hours of 12:00 noon on Sundays and 1:00 a.m. on 
 Mondays. 

    (b) The governing body of a municipality may after one 
 public hearing by ordinance permit a restaurant, hotel, bowling 
 center, or club to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on 
 the premises in conjunction with the sale of food between the 
 hours of 10:00 a.m. on Sundays and 1:00 a.m. on Mondays, 
 provided that the licensee is in conformance with the Minnesota 
 Clean Air Act. 

    (c) An establishment serving intoxicating liquor on Sundays 
 must obtain a Sunday license.  The license must be issued by the 
 governing body of the municipality for a period of one year, and 
 the fee for the license may not exceed $200. 

    (d) A city may issue a Sunday intoxicating liquor license 
 only if authorized to do so by the voters of the city voting on 
 the question at a general or special election.  A county may 
 issue a Sunday intoxicating liquor license in a town only if 
 authorized to do so by the voters of the town as provided in 
 paragraph (e).  A county may issue a Sunday intoxicating liquor 
 license in unorganized territory only if authorized to do so by 
 the voters of the election precinct that contains the licensed 
 premises, voting on the question at a general or special 
 election. 

    (e) An election conducted in a town on the question of the 
 issuance by the county of Sunday sales licenses to 
 establishments located in the town must be held on the day of 
 the annual election of town officers. 

    (f) Voter approval is not required for licenses issued by 
 the metropolitan airports commission or common carrier licenses 
 issued by the commissioner.  Common carriers serving 
 intoxicating liquor on Sunday must obtain a Sunday license from 
 the commissioner at an annual fee of $50, plus $20 for each 
 duplicate.  

    Subd. 4.    Intoxicating liquor; off-sale.  No sale of 
 intoxicating liquor may be made by an off-sale licensee: 

    (1) on Sundays; 

    (2) before 8:00 a.m. on Monday through Saturday; 

    (3) after 10:00 p.m. on Monday through Saturday at an 
 establishment located in a city other than a city of the first 
 class or within a city located within 15 miles of a city of the 
 first class in the same county; 

    (4) after 8:00 p.m. on Monday through Thursday and after 
 10:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at an establishment located in 
 a city of the first class or within a city located within 15 
 miles of a city of the first class in the same county, provided 
 that an establishment may sell intoxicating liquor until 10:00 
 p.m. on December 31 and July 3, and on the day preceding 
 Thanksgiving day, unless otherwise prohibited under clause (1); 

    (5) on Thanksgiving Day; 

    (6) on Christmas Day, December 25; or 

    (7) after 8:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve, December 24. 

    Subd. 5.    Bottle clubs.  No establishment licensed 
 under section 340A.414, may permit a person to consume or 
 display intoxicating liquor, and no person may consume or 
 display intoxicating liquor between 1:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon on 
 Sundays, and between 1:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. on Monday through 
 Saturday. 

    Subd. 6.    Municipalities may limit hours.  A 
 municipality may further limit the hours of sale of alcoholic 
 beverages, provided that further restricted hours must apply 
 equally to sales of 3.2 percent malt liquor and intoxicating 
 liquor.  A city may not permit the sale of alcoholic beverages 
 during hours when the sale is prohibited by this section.  

    HIST: 1985 c 139 s 1; 1985 c 305 art 7 s 4; 1Sp1985 c 16 art 2 
 s 3 subd 1; 1987 c 5 s 4; 1987 c 152 art 1 s 1; 1988 c 420 s 1; 
 1989 c 49 s 3-5; 1990 c 554 s 14; 1991 c 249 s 21,22,31; 1992 c 
 513 art 3 s 60; 1994 c 611 s 26; 1997 c 129 art 1 s 8; 2002 c 
 318 s 2