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Passed as Amended
BILL NO. 2005 - 30
SPONSORED BY COUNCILMAN Schnitzler
ORDINANCE NO. /�l / 1
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, AMENDING THE CITY
CODE BY ADDING ONE SECTION TO CHAPTER 4 PERTAINING TO POSSESSION OF
OPEN CONTAINERS OF ALCOHOL.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City Code, Chapter 4, Alcoholic Beverages, Is hereby amended by
adding one new section to read as follows:
Section 4-22 Possession of open container of alcoholic beverage or consumption of alcoholic
heversue in certain public places.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to possess any alcoholic beverage on any street.
• sidewalk or city Varkin g facility acility unless such alcoholic beverage is in the original container
and the seal is unbroken, exec t as pernnitted by state statute.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to consume any alcoholic beverage on any street
sidewalk or city parking facility.
(c)The definition of"alcoholic bevcrages"contyined in Chol2ter4 shall apply tothissection.
(d)This section shall not apply to possession or consumption of any alcoholic beverage in
a licensed motor vehicle.
(e) This section shall not apply to the possession or consumption of alcoholic heverages
served by an establishment licensed under the provisions of sections 32-230 to 32-232 and
consumed within licensed premises,provided that tine restrictions ofthe license are observed
f-ri(f) A violation of this section shall be punishable by a tine of not less than twenty-five
dollars ($25.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or imprisonment for not
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• more than ninety(90)days or both.
f-H(e) In prosecutions under this section,there is n rebuttable presumption that a container
marked or labeled as containing an alcoholic beverage actually contains the described
alcoholic beverage.This rebuttable Presumption applies only in cases where a sample of the
contents of the container has been preserved and is available to the defendant for testing,
(Ord. No. 14048, § 1, 5-2-94; Ord. No. 17600, § 2, 2-17-03; Ord. No. 18460, § 2, 3-21-05)
Section 2. The Gity eoune" hereby exeludes these portions of the dowmtev.plm,
buso;tess distriet from tI ie provialoms oft!fla ordimanea Im commeetlem with the Sheet elosift"
betweem duly 1, 2005 amd duly 4, 2005.
---Seefig". This Ordinance shall be In full force and effect from and after the date
of Its passage and approval.
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Passed: ail �, �D 1 Approved:: ,.
Pfdsiding Officer Mayor
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'City CIA City Counselor
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