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Kirksville adopts ordinance amending alcohol, building, business and parks code sections
Summary
The council adopted Ordinance 2025-11 to clarify how the city measures distances for alcohol sales near churches and schools, incorporate building-code appendices for lead and cross-connection controls, revise business licensing procedures, and adjust vehicle-for-hire insurance requirements.
The City Council of Kirksville adopted Ordinance 2025-11, amending multiple chapters of the municipal code to align local rules with state law and recent inspections.
City Manager Mary Maycomb told the council the ordinance clarifies how the city measures the statutory 100-foot distance from churches and schools for alcohol sales, adds Appendix F (lead) and Appendix G (cross-connection) into the adopted building-code references following an EPA inspection, updates a daycare licensing exemption, removes a certified-mail requirement for licensing notices and eliminates a reference to interest in penalty provisions. The ordinance also removes a requirement that vehicles for hire name the City of Kirksville as an additional insured—a provision staff said was added on advice of the city’s risk pool rather than statute.
"Our code did not describe how we were to measure so we put language in there," Mary Maycomb said, explaining the proximity clarification. On the certified-mail change, Maycomb said staff found more cost-effective ways to contact businesses after more than 200 failed renewals and proposed mailing instead of certified mail.
Council members moved the ordinance through a first and second reading and approved it by voice vote. Staff said the business-license changes include a manager-level waiver to excuse penalties in cases where businesses are working for the city and have a reasonable excuse for incomplete renewals.
The amendments respond in part to a recent EPA inspection and to practical issues discovered in administering business licensing and permits; the city clerk read the ordinance on both first and second readings before council approval.
City staff said the updated code language and incorporated appendices will be made available to the public once codified.
