(a)   It shall be unlawful for any person to keep for sale, offer for sale or expose for sale or sell any alcoholic liquor without first having obtained a state license to do so.

(b)   The holder of a license for the retail sale in the city of alcoholic liquors by the package issued by the state director of alcoholic beverage control shall present such license to the city clerk when applying to pay the occupation tax levied in section 3-302, and the tax shall be received, and a receipt shall be issued for the period covered by the state license.

(K.S.A. 41-301 et seq.; Code 1988, § 3-301; Code 2016, Sec. 6-131)

(a)   There is hereby levied an annual occupation tax in an amount established in the city’s fee resolution on any person holding a license issued by the state director of alcoholic beverage control for the retail sale within the city of alcoholic liquors for consumption off the premises. Such tax shall be paid by the retailer to the city clerk before business is begun under an original state license and shall be paid within five days after any renewal of a state license.

(b)   There is hereby levied an annual occupation tax on each distributor, wholesaler and jobber of alcoholic liquor, except beer, selling at wholesale to retailers within the state, in the sum established in the city’s fee resolution in the city, who may establish, maintain and operate a liquor distributing, wholesaling and jobbing place of business and who has a distributor’s, wholesaler’s and jobber’s license issued by the state director of alcoholic beverage control, which tax shall be paid before business is begun under an original state license therefor and within ten days after any renewal of such state license. A holder of a license for the distributing, wholesaling and jobbing of alcoholic liquors or beer in the city, issued by the state director of alcoholic beverage control, shall present such license when applying to pay the occupation tax levied in this subsection, and the tax shall be received and receipt issued by the city clerk for the period covered by the state license.

(K.S.A. 41-310(l); Code 1988, §§ 3-302, 3-307, 3-308; Code 2016, Sec. 6-132)

Every retailer licensee shall cause the city alcoholic liquor or beer distributor’s, wholesaler’s and jobber’s occupation tax receipt to be placed in plain view next to or below the state license in a conspicuous place on the licensed premises.

(Code 1988, §§ 3-303, 3-309; Code 2016, Sec. 6-133)

It shall be unlawful for a retailer of alcoholic liquor to:

(a)   Permit any person to mix drinks in or on the licensed premises;

(b)   Employ any person under the age of 21 years in connection with the operation of the retail establishment;

(c)   Employ any person in connection with the operation of the retail establishment who has been adjudged guilty of a felony;

(d)   Have in such retailer’s possession for sale at retail any bottles, cask or other containers containing alcoholic liquor, except in the original package;

(e)   Sell, give away, dispose of, exchange or deliver, or permit the sale, gift or procuring of any alcoholic liquor to or for any person under 21 years of age.

(f)    The premises and all equipment used in connection with such business shall be kept clean and in a sanitary condition and shall at all times be open to the inspection of the police, fire and health officers of the city, county and state.

(K.S.A. 21-3610; Code 1988, § 3-305; Code 2016, Sec. 6-135; Code 2018)

No person shall knowingly or unknowingly sell, give away, furnish, dispose of, procure, exchange or deliver, or permit the selling, giving away, furnishing, disposing of, procuring, exchanging or delivering of any alcoholic beverage in any building, structure or premises, for consumption in such building or upon such premises if such consumption is within 200 feet from any existing hospital, school, church or library building.

(K.S.A. 41-710(c)(1); Code 1988, § 3-306; Ord. 3419, § 1, 4-23-13; Code 2016, Sec. 6-136)

The city does hereby exempt itself from the provisions of K.S.A. 41-719(c) regarding the consumption of alcoholic liquor in the interior of those three buildings commonly referred to as the Dr. John Silas Bass North Community Building, 505 N. Buckeye, the Riverside Park Community Recreation Building, 500 Park Avenue, and the Riverside Park Community Building, 510 Park Avenue, the titles of which vested in the City of Iola.

(Ord. 3159, § 1, 11-8-94; Ord. 3374, § 1, 8-25-09; Ord 3454, 1-19-16; Code 2016, Sec. 6-137)