A. Age Limit:
1. No licensee nor any officer, associate, member, representative, agent or employee of such licensee shall sell, give or deliver alcoholic liquor to any person under the age of twenty one (21) years, or to any intoxicated person, except as provided in 235 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/6-16.1. 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. (1979 Code § 3-4-17; amd. 2017 Code)
2. For the purpose of preventing the violation of this section, any licensee, or his agent or employee, may refuse to sell or serve alcoholic beverages to any person who is unable to produce adequate written evidence of identity and of the fact that he is over the age of twenty one (21) years.
3. Adequate written evidence of age and identity of the person is a document issued by a Federal, State, County or Municipal government, or subdivision or agency thereof, including, but not limited to, a motor vehicle operator's license, a registration certificate issued under the Federal Selective Service Act, or an identification card issued to a member of the Armed Forces. Proof that the defendant-licensee, or his employee or agent, demanded, was shown and reasonably relied upon such written evidence in any transaction, forbidden by this section, is competent evidence and may be considered in any criminal prosecution therefor or to any proceedings for the suspension or revocation of any license based thereon.
4. Any person who sells, gives or furnishes to any person under the age of twenty one (21) years any false or fraudulent written, printed or photostatic evidence of the age and identity of such person or who sells, gives or furnishes to any person under the age of twenty one (21) years, evidence of age and identification of any other person is guilty of a violation of this section.
5. Any person under the age of twenty one (21) years who presents or offers to any licensee, his agent or employee, any written, printed or photostatic evidence of age and identity which is false, fraudulent or not actually his own for the purpose of ordering, purchasing or attempting to purchase or otherwise procuring or attempting to procure, the serving of any alcoholic beverage or who has in his possession any false or fraudulent written, printed or photostatic evidence of age and identity, is guilty of a violation of this chapter.
6. Any person under the age of twenty one (21) years who has any alcoholic beverage in his possession on any street or highway or in any public place or in any place open to the public is guilty of a violation of this chapter. This section does not apply to possession by a person under the age of twenty one (21) years making a delivery of an alcoholic beverage in pursuance of his employment.
7. Whoever violates this section shall, in addition to other penalties provided for, be guilty of a violation of this chapter. (1979 Code § 3-4-17)
B. Parental Responsibility:
1. Minors Prohibited On Premises:
a. No person under the age of twenty one (21) years shall be permitted to sit at a bar or other place where alcoholic liquor is dispensed at any licensed premises.
b. For Class A licensees only, except as set forth below and as set forth in subsection 3-2-25B of this chapter: 1) no person under the age of twenty one (21) years shall remain in a licensed premises; 2) no person having the custody or control of a person under the age of twenty one (21) years shall allow any such person to remain in a licensed premises; and 3) no licensee, nor any employee or agent thereof, shall allow a person under the age of twenty one (21) years to remain in a licensed premises. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the prohibitions set forth in this subsection shall not apply to any Class A licensee that is a bowling alley or a restaurant as defined in section 3-2-1 of this chapter. (Ord. 02-01-15, 2-10-2015)
2. Violation: Any parent or guardian who shall knowingly suffer or permit any person of which he may be the parent or guardian to violate any provision of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a violation hereunder.
3. Post Warning: In every place in the Village where alcoholic liquor is sold, there shall be displayed at all times in a prominent place a printed card supplied by the licensee and which shall read substantially as follows:
WARNING TO MINORS
You are subject to a fine up to seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) under the Municipal Code of the Village of Mt. Morris if you purchase alcoholic liquor, or misrepresent your age for the purpose of purchasing or obtaining alcoholic liquor.
(1979 Code § 3-4-17; amd. 2017 Code)