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<br />Request for Action <br /> <br /> <br />To Item Number <br /> <br />Mayor and City Council 4.4 <br />Agenda Section Meeting Date Prepared by <br /> <br />ConsentMay 1, 2017Tina Allard, City Clerk <br />Item Description Reviewed by <br />Ordinance Amendment: Permitting Sunday Off-Cal Portner, City Administrator <br />Sale of Intoxicating Liquor <br />Reviewed by <br /> <br /> <br />Action Requested <br /> <br />Adopt, by motion, an ordinance amending Elk River City Code, 6-94, as it relates to Sunday off-sale of <br />intoxicating liquor. <br /> <br />Background/Discussion <br /> <br />A new state law was approved by the legislature to allow for Sunday off-sale of intoxicating liquor. The <br />new law goes into effect on July 2, 2017. If the city’s ordinance explicitly bans Sunday liquor sales, which <br />Elk River’s does, the ban will become invalid on July 1 and so should be repealed. The attached ordinance <br />as drafted mirrors the new state law language and will allow the municipal liquor stores to be open on <br />Sundays. <br /> <br />Cities can typically be more restrictive than state law when it comes to liquor regulations. An exception, <br />per a Minnesota Court of Appeals opinion, is that cities may not be more restrictive than state law on <br />days of sale, but can be more restrictive on hours. Current hours allowed by law and inserted in the draft <br />ordinance are 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. <br /> <br />Financial Impact <br /> <br />N/A <br /> <br />Attachments <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Draft Ordinance <br /> <br /> <br />