(A) No licensee, or his or her employee or employees, or any other person, shall sell, deliver, or give away, or cause, or permit, to be sold, delivered, or given away, any alcoholic beverage to:
(1) Any person under the age of 21 years;
(2) Any intoxicated person or any person actually, apparently, or obviously intoxicated; and/or
(3) An interdicted person.
(B) Any person under 21 years of age, or other person who knowingly misrepresents his or her qualifications for the purpose of obtaining an alcoholic beverage from such licensee, shall be equally guilty with said licensee and shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to the penalty provided in MCA § 45-5-624, provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as authorizing or permitting the sale of an alcoholic beverage to any person in violation of any federal law. With the exclusions provided for in MCA § 16-6-305, when the alcoholic beverage is provided for in a non-intoxicating quantity to a person under 21 years of age by his or her parent or guardian, physician, or dentist for medicinal purposes, a licensed pharmacist upon the prescription of a physician, or an ordained minister or priest in connection with a religious observance and MCA § 45-5-624 when, in the course of his or her employment, it is necessary to possess alcoholic beverages.
(C) It shall be further mandatory under the provisions of this chapter that all licensees display in a prominent place in their premises a placard, as issued by the State Department of Revenue, stating fully the consequences for violations of the provisions of this chapter by persons under 21 years of age.
(Prior Code, § 5-1-9) Penalty, see § 110.99