§ 5-01-040. Selling or giving alcoholic liquor to minors; minor allowing self to be served.  


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  • (a)

    The term "minor" as used in this section shall mean any person who is under the age of twenty-one (21) years.

    (b)

    It shall be a violation of this section for any club, retailer, dispenser, bartender, waiter or servant or employee of any club, retailer or dispenser, or for any taxi driver, hotel employee or any other person, to do any of the following acts:

    (1)

    To sell, serve or give any alcoholic beverage to a minor.

    (2)

    To buy alcoholic beverages for, or to procure the sale or service of alcoholic beverages to, a minor.

    (3)

    To deliver alcoholic beverages to a minor.

    (4)

    To aid or assist a minor to buy, procure or be served with alcoholic beverages.

    (c)

    It shall be a violation of this section for any minor to buy, receive, possess or permit himself to be served with any alcoholic liquor.

    (d)

    In the event any person except a minor shall procure any other person to sell, serve or deliver any alcoholic beverage to a minor by actual or constructive misrepresentation of any facts calculated to cause, or by the concealment of any facts the concealment of which is calculated to cause, the person, selling, serving or delivering such alcoholic beverages to such minor, that such minor is legally entitled to be sold, served or delivered alcoholic beverages; and actually deceiving him by such misrepresentation or concealment, then that person, and not the person so deceived by such misrepresentation or concealment, shall have violated this section.

(Ord. No. 1303, 1-22-08)