Local option to change hours of liquor sales, such as on-premises consumption to 2 a.m. or for longer hours on Sunday; 137 cities and counties have some extended hours (2016); liquor businesses prohibited within 150 feet of school, place of worship, hospital, homes of indigents or “veterans and their wives and children”; micro distilleries may make up to 20,000 gallons a year, craft breweries 10,000 gallons a year and permitted to sell to wholesalers; state liquor law is to be “liberally construed to the end that the health, safety, and welfare of the people… are protected and temperance in the consumption of alcoholic liquor is fostered and promoted by sound and careful control and regulation of the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic liquor.”

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