Title 5 - Business Licenses and Regulations

5.22.045 Permitting Consumption by Minors; Exceptions; Penalties.

1. A.

   No CCA permit holder, caterer, temporary permit holder, or drinking establishment licensee participating in a common consumption area, or any owner, officer or employee thereof, shall knowingly or unknowingly permit the possession or consumption of alcoholic liquor or cereal malt beverages by a minor within the common consumption area, except that a caterer’s, temporary permit holder’s, or drinking establishment licensee’s employee who is not less than 18 years of age may serve alcoholic liquor or cereal malt beverage under the on-premise supervision of the caterer, temporary permit holder or drinking establishment licensee, or an employee who is 21 years of age or older.

2. B.
   Violation of this section is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $100.00 and not more than $250.00 or imprisonment not exceeding 30 days, or both.
3. C.
   It shall be a defense to  a prosecution under this Section if:

   1. 1.
       The defendant permitted the minor to possess or consume the alcoholic liquor or cereal malt beverage with reasonable cause to believe that the minor was 21 or more years of age; and
   2. 2.
      To possess or consume the alcoholic liquor or cereal malt beverage, the minor exhibited to the defendant a driver's license, Kansas nondriver's identification card or other official or apparently official document that reasonably appears to contain a photograph of the minor and purporting to establish that such minor was 21 or more years of age. 

(History: Ord. ABC-3368 §4, 2022.)

Effective on: 1/1/1901