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Item No: 07D Meeting Date: April 26, 2010 Type of Business: CB City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: James Ericson, Clerk - Administrator Item Title/Subject: First Reading and Introduction of Ordinance 843, an Ordinance Amending Chapters 502 and 503 of the City Code Relating to Liquor Licenses Introduction: Staff has been working with the City Attorney for the last few months reviewing Chapters 502 and 503 of the City Code relating to liquor licenses in an effort to make necessary updates, eliminate confusing or inconsistent provisions and to incorporate new legislation. Discussion: The attached ordinance is a comprehensive rewrite of the chapters in question, enough so that it would have been alternatively appropriate to delete the chapters in their entirety and adopt brand new chapters. Since some of the language remains, we thought it would be better to illustrate exactly what has been changed and why, so the Council has a better understanding of the amendments. The changes are noted below, section by section. Section 502.01 - Definitions This section was completely rewritten. Many of the previous definitions were deficient, inaccurate or outdated. For example, the definition of FOOD was eliminated. The state requires Sunday sales of liquor to coincide with food sales. While the City can be more restrictive than the state, it seemed overly controlling to legislate what kind of food a licensed establishment had to offer on Sundays. Section 502.02 – License Required A line of text was deleted at the end of this section regarding types of licenses. Section 502.03 – License Classifications There are too many changes in this section to review, so I’ve highlighted a few that are more than simple language tweaks. In Subd 1, the number of years a club has been in existence has been reduced from 15 to 3, consistent with MN Statutes. In Subd 2 and throughout the Code, “drugstores” have been removed as a business that can obtain or hold a liquor license. Subd 4 indicates that Sunday sales of alcohol must be in conjunction with the sale of food.