(a) No person under the age of twenty-one years shall order, pay for, share the cost of or attempt to purchase any nonintoxicating beer, wine or alcoholic liquors from a licensee or consume any nonintoxicating beer, wine or alcoholic liquors purchased from a private club licensee or possess any nonintoxicating beer, wine or alcoholic liquors purchased from a licensee. Provided, that nothing in this subsection shall prohibit a person who is at least eighteen years of age from purchasing or possessing nonintoxicating beer, wine or alcoholic liquors when he or she is acting upon the request of or under the direction and control of any member of a state, federal or local law-enforcement agency or the West Virginia Alcohol Beverage Administration while the agency is conducting an investigation or other activity relating to the enforcement of the alcohol beverage control statutes and the rules and regulations of the Commissioner.
(b) No person under the age of twenty-one years, for the purpose of purchasing nonintoxicating beer, wine or alcoholic liquors from a private club licensee, misrepresent his or her age, or for such purpose present or offer any written evidence of age which is false, fraudulent or not actually his or her own, or illegally attempt to purchase nonintoxicating beer, wine or alcoholic liquors from a licensee.
(c) No person shall knowingly buy for, give to or furnish to anyone under the age of twenty-one years any nonintoxicating beer, wine or alcoholic liquors purchased from a licensee.
(WVaC 60-7-12a; Ord. 2022-011. Passed 11-7-22.)