The Duluth City Council will consider several recommendations by the Alcohol Review Board at its next meeting Aug. 8.
The first would relax the alcohol beverage license fingerprint requirement. Currently establishment owners must submit themselves to the Duluth Police Department for fingerprinting. Owners who live in other states find it difficult to travel to Duluth to be fingerprinted in order to run the required background checks. The proposed amendment would allow the applicant to provide a set of fingerprints as part of the application.
The second amendment would allow restaurant patrons to bring their own unopened bottle of wine. The restaurant will be required to charge a minimum corkage fee of $10 per bottle.
The third amendment would put the city in compliance with a new state law that requires notification within 45 days of disciplinary action against any person with an alcohol beverage license, guidelines for under age 21 patrons and states no person under the age of 21 be employed as a bouncer.
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