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5.08.270 – Underage Persons

  1. No person, after purchasing or otherwise obtaining alcoholic liquor, shall sell, give, or deliver such alcoholic liquor to another person under the age of twenty-one (21) years, except in the performance of a religious ceremony or service.
  2. No person shall sell, give, or furnish to any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years any false or fraudulent written, printed, or Photostatted evidence of the age and identity of such person nor shall anyone sell, give or furnish to any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years evidence of age and identification of any other person.
  3. No person under the age of twenty-one (21) years shall present or offer to any licensee, his agent or employee, any written, printed, or photostatted evidence of age and identity which is false, fraudulent, or not actually his own for the purpose of ordering, purchasing, attempting to purchase or otherwise procuring or attempting to procure, the serving of any alcoholic liquor, nor shall any person have in his possession any false or fraudulent written, printed, or photostatted evidence of age and identity.
  4. No person under the age of twenty-one (21) years shall have any alcoholic liquor in his possession nor shall any such person consume any alcoholic liquor. This section does not apply to possession by a person under the age of twenty-one (21) years or consumption in the performance of a religious ceremony or service.
  5. This section does not apply to possession by a person under the age of twenty-one (21) years making a delivery of alcoholic liquor in pursuance of the order of his or her parent or in
    pursuance of his or her employment.

 Any person violating this section shall be fined two-hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) for the first offense nor more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) for each subsequent offense.

(2015-M-14: § 1; 2010-M-29: § 1; 2004-M-12: § 1; 1995-M-1: § 1; 1988-M-14: § 1; 1987-M-81: § 1; 1980-M-25: § 1(g); 1976-M-5: (part); Prior code: § 24.020)