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Page 1 of17 - This document is also available in PDF format. Plymouth City Code 1201.01 CHAPTER XII Sale, Consumption and Display of Alcoholic Beverages Section 1201 - State Law Adopted/Definitions 1201.01. Provisions of State Law Adopted, Except to the extent the provisions of this Chapter are more restrictive, the provisions of Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 340A, as amended, regarding the terms, licensing, consumption, sales, hours of sale, and all other matters pertaining to the retail sale, distnlJUtion, and consumption of intoxicating liquor and 3.2 percent malt liquor are adopted and made a part of this Chapter as if set out in full. 1201.03. Definitions. For the purposes of this Chapter, and in addition to those definitions contained in Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 340A, as amended, the terms used in this Subsection are defined as follows: (a) Display: The term "Display" means the keeping, storing, or permitting to be kept or stored of an alcoholic beverage which has been poured, dispensed or has had its package seal broken on, in, or at any table, booth, bar or other area of a licensed premises accessible to the general public, except when the alcoholic beverage is stored in a normal storage area during non-sale hours. (b) Interest: The term "interest" as used in this Chapter includes any pecuniary interest in the ownership, operation, management or profits of a liquor establislunent, but does not include: bona fide loans; bona fide fixed sum rental agreements; bona fide open accounts or other obligations held with or without security arising out of the ordinary and regular course of business or selling or leasing merchandise, fixtures or supplies to such establishment; or any interest of 5 percent or less in any corporation holding a City liquor license. A person who receives monies, from time to time, directly or indirectly from a licensee in the absence of a bona fide consideration therefor and excluding bona fide gifts or donations, shall be deemed to have a pecuniary interest in such retail license. In determining "bona fide," the reasonable value of the goods or things received as consideration for the payment of the licensee and all other facts reasonably tending to prove or disprove the existence of any purposeful scheme or arrangement to evade any prohibitions under this Chapter shall be considered. (c) Licensed Premises: The term "Licensed Premises" is the premises described in the approved license application. In the case of a restaurant, club, or exclusive liquor store licensed for on-sales of alcoholic beverages and located on a golf course, "licensed premises" means the entire golf course except for areas where motor vehicles are http. ../1200%5Fsale%5Fconsumption%5Fand%5Fdisplay''105Fof%5Falcoholic%5Fbeverages.ht 2/19/02