Wassail Walk Friday, Nov. 27 · 27 days 19 hrs See the route →
Skip to content

← Boonville ordinances

Boonville Definitions ordinance (§ 3-1)

Chapter 3: Alcoholic Beverages and Marijuana · Article I. In General

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall mean as indicated below:

Drug paraphernalia: All equipment, products and materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance, an illegal smoking product or an imitation controlled substance.

Intoxicating liquor: Alcohol for beverage purposes, alcoholic, spirituous, ardent spirits, malt, vinous, or fermented, and all preparations or mixtures for beverage purposes, containing in excess of three and two-tenths per cent of alcohol by weight.

Liquor license: Any license issued under the provisions of this chapter.

Malt liquor: Liquor manufactured from pure hops, and/or pure extract of hops, and/or pure barley malt, and/or wholesome grains or cereals and wholesome yeast and pure water, and commonly called and known as beer, and containing alcohol in excess of three and two-tenths per cent by weight and not in excess of five per cent by weight.

Marijuana: Cannabis indica, Cannabis sativa, and Cannabis ruderalis, hybrids of such species, and any other strains commonly understood within the scientific community to constitute marijuana, as well as resin extracted from the plant (e.g., hashish) and marijuana-infused products. "Marijuana" does not include industrial hemp containing a crop-wide average tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that does not exceed three-tenths of one percent on a dry weight basis, or commodities or products manufactured from industrial hemp.

Nonintoxicating beer: Any beer manufactured from pure hops or pure extract of hops, and pure barley malt or other wholesome grains or cereals, and wholesome yeast and pure water, and free from all harmful substances, preservatives and adulterants, and having an alcoholic content of more than one-half of one per cent by volume and not exceeding three and two-tenths per cent by weight.

Nonintoxicating beer license: Any license issued under the provisions of article II of this chapter.

Original package: Any package containing three, six, 12 or 24 small standard beer bottles, and any package containing three, six or 12 large standard beer bottles, when such bottles contain nonintoxicating beer or malt liquor. With reference to the sale of intoxicating liquor other than malt liquor or beer, the term means a package or container containing a quantity of not less than one-half pint of intoxicating liquor.

Wholesale liquor dealing agent: Any person who solicits, receives, or takes orders for the purchase and delivery of any intoxicating liquor to any person in the city.

Official source: City of Boonville official Code of Ordinances (online): look up Sec. 3-1

Text from Supplement 8 (December 2025), through Ordinance 4678 of December 16, 2024.

Last checked October 30, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.