(A) No person under the age of 21 years shall have any alcoholic beverage in his or her possession.
(B) No person under the age of 21 years shall purchase or attempt to purchase any alcoholic beverage.
(C) No person under the age of 21 years shall present or offer to any licensee, his or her agent or employee, any written, printed or photostatic evidence of age and identity which is false, fraudulent or not actually his or her own for the purpose of ordering, purchasing, attempting to purchase, or otherwise procuring or attempting to procure the serving of any alcoholic beverage; nor shall any person under the age of 21 years carry, use or have in his or her possession any false or fraudulent written, printed or photostatic evidence of age and identity. No person shall transfer, alter or deface an identification card or obtain an identification card by means of false information.
(D) It shall be unlawful for any person under the age of 21 years to misrepresent his or her age for the purpose of purchasing or obtaining alcoholic liquor in any tavern or other place in the city where alcoholic liquor is sold.
(E) For the purpose of preventing the violation of this section, any licensee, or his or her agent or employee, may refuse to sell or serve alcoholic beverages to any person who is unable to produce adequate written evidence of identity of the fact that he or she is over the age of 21 years.
(F) This section does not apply to possession by a person under the age of 21 years making a delivery of an alcoholic beverage in pursuance of the order of his or her parent or in pursuance of his or her employment.
(1986 Code, § 4-86) (Ord. 1981-16, passed 8-17-1981) Penalty, see § 116.999
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see ILCS Ch. 235, Act 5, § 6-16