(A) A person less than 21 years of age shall not purchase or attempt to purchase alcoholic liquor, consume or attempt to consume alcoholic liquor, or possess or attempt to possess alcoholic liquor, except as provided in this section and in M.C.L.A. § 436.33a(1). Notwithstanding M.C.L.A. § 436.50, a person less than 21 years of age who violates this section is liable for the following fines and sanctions and shall not be subject to the penalties prescribed in § 10.99:
(1) For the first violation, a fine of not more than $100, and may be ordered to participate in a substance abuse prevention or substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation services as defined in M.C.L.A. § 333.6107 and designated by the Administrator of Substance Abuse Services, and may be ordered to perform community service and undergo substance abuse screening and assessment at his or her own expense as described in M.C.L.A. § 436.33b(3);
(2) For a second violation, a fine of not more than $200, and may be ordered to participate in a substance abuse prevention or substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation services as defined in M.C.L.A. § 333.6107 and designated by the Administrator of Substance Abuse Services, and may be ordered to perform community service and undergo substance abuse screening and assessment at his or her own expense as described in M.C.L.A. § 436.33b(3). The person is also subject to sanctions against his or her operator’s license imposed in M.C.L.A. § 436.33b(4); and
(3) For a third or subsequent violation, a fine of not more than $500, and may be ordered to participate in a substance abuse prevention or substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation services as defined in M.C.L.A. § 333.6107 and designated by the Administrator of Substance Abuse Services, and may be ordered to perform community service and undergo substance abuse screening and assessment at his or her own expense as described in M.C.L.A. § 436.33b(3). The person is also subject to sanctions against his or her operator’s license imposed in M.C.L.A. § 436.33b(4).
(B) A person who furnishes fraudulent identification to a person less than 21 years of age, or notwithstanding division (A) a person less than 21 years of age who uses fraudulent identification to purchase alcoholic liquor, is guilty of a violation of this code. The court shall order the Secretary of State to suspend, pursuant to M.C.L.A. § 257.319, for a period of 90 days, the operator’s license of a person who is convicted of furnishing or using fraudulent identification in violation of this division (B), and the operator’s license of that person shall be surrendered to the court. The court shall immediately forward the surrendered license and an abstract of conviction to the Secretary of State. A suspension ordered under this division (B) shall be in addition to any other suspension of the person’s operator’s license.
(C) A law enforcement agency, upon determining that a person less than 18 years of age who is not emancipated pursuant to M.C.L.A. §§ 722.1 to 722.6, allegedly consumed, possessed, purchased or attempted to consume, possess or purchase alcoholic liquor in violation of division (A) of this section shall notify the parent or parents, custodian or guardian of the person as to the nature of the violation if the name of the parent, custodian or guardian is reasonably ascertainable by the law enforcement agency. The notice required by this division (C) shall be made not later than 48 hours after the law enforcement agency determines that the person who allegedly violated division (A) of this section is less than 18 years of age and not emancipated pursuant to M.C.L.A. §§ 722.1 to 722.6. The notice may be made by any means reasonably calculated to give prompt actual notice including but not limited to notice in person, by telephone, or by first-class mail. If a person less than 17 years of age is incarcerated for violating division (A), his or her parents or legal guardian shall be notified immediately as provided in this division (C).
(D) This section does not prohibit a person less than 21 years of age from possessing alcoholic liquor during regular working hours and in the course of his or her employment if employed by a person licensed pursuant to state law by the Liquor Control Commission, or by an agent of the Liquor Control Commission, if the alcoholic liquor is not possessed for his or her personal consumption.
(E) This section shall not be construed to limit the civil or criminal liability of the vendor or the vendor’s clerk, servant, agent or employee for a violation of this chapter or state law.
(F) The consumption of alcoholic liquor by a person less than 21 years of age who is enrolled in a course offered by an accredited post secondary educational institution in an academic building of the institution under the supervision of a faculty member shall not be prohibited by this section if the purpose is solely educational and is a necessary ingredient of the course.
(G) The consumption by a person less than 21 years of age of sacramental wine in connection with religious services at a church, synagogue or temple is not prohibited by this section.
(H) Division (A) does not apply to a person less than 21 years of age who participates in either or both of the following:
(1) An undercover operation in which the person less than 21 years of age purchases or receives alcoholic liquor under the direction of the person’s employer and with the prior approval of the local prosecutor’s office as part of an employer-sponsored internal enforcement action; or
(2) An undercover operation in which the person less than 21 years of age purchased or received alcoholic liquor under the direction of the state police, Liquor Control Commission, or a local police agency as part of an enforcement action, except that any initial or contemporaneous purchase or receipt of alcoholic liquor by the person less than 21 years of age shall have been under the direction of the state police, Liquor Control Commission, or the local police agency and shall have been part of the undercover operation. The state police, the Liquor Control Commission or a local law enforcement agency shall not recruit or attempt to recruit a person less than 21 years of age for participation in an undercover operation at the scene of a violation of division (A) of this section or § 90.04(A).
(M.C.L.A. § 436.33b(1), (2), (8) through (13))