(A) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter or in R.C. Chapter 4301, no person shall sell beer or intoxicating liquor to an underage person, shall buy beer or intoxicating liquor for an underage person, or shall furnish it to an underage person unless given by a physician in the regular line of the physician's practice or given for established religious purposes or unless the underage person is supervised by a parent, spouse who is not an underage person, or legal guardian.
(2) In proceedings before the Liquor Control Commission, no permit holder, or no employee or agent of a permit holder, charged with a violation of this division shall be charged, for the same offense, with a violation of R.C. § 4301.22(A)(1) or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance. (R.C. § 4301.69(A))
(B) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter or R.C. Chapter 4301, no person under the age of 21 years shall purchase beer or intoxicating liquor. (R.C. § 4301.63)
(C) No person under the age of 21 years shall knowingly order, pay for, share the cost of, attempt to purchase, possess, or consume any beer or intoxicating liquor in any public or private place. No person under the age of 21 years, shall knowingly be under the influence of any beer or intoxicating liquor in any public place. The prohibitions set forth in division (G) of this section against an underage person knowingly possessing, consuming, or being under the influence of any beer or intoxicating liquor shall not apply if the underage person is supervised by a parent, spouse who is not an underage person, or legal guardian, or the beer or intoxicating liquor is given by a physician in the regular line of the physician’s practice or given for established religious purposes.
(D) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter or R.C. Chapter 4301, no person shall knowingly furnish any false information as to the name, age or other identification of any person under 21 years of age for the purpose of obtaining or with the intent to obtain beer or intoxicating liquor for a person under 21 years of age, by purchase or as a gift. (R.C. § 4301.633)
(E) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter or R.C. Chapter 4301, no person under the age of 21 years shall knowingly show or give false information concerning his name, age or other identification for the purpose of purchasing or otherwise obtaining beer or intoxicating liquor in any place where beer or intoxicating liquor is sold under a permit issued by the Department of Liquor Control or sold by the Department of Liquor Control. (R.C. § 4301.634)
(F) The provisions of this section relating to the attempted purchase, purchase, sale, possession or consumption of beer apply only to persons who on July 31, 1987, are less than 19 years of age.
(G) Whoever violates any provision of this section for which no other penalty is provided is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Whoever violates divisions (B) or (E) of this section shall be subject to the penalties set forth below.
(1) Whoever violates § 111.02(B) shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $100. The court imposing a fine for a violation of § 111.02(B) may order that the fine be paid by the performance of public work at a reasonable hourly rate established by the court. The court shall designate the time within which the public work shall be completed. (R.C. § 4301.99(F)) (‘73 Code, § 529.02)
(2) (a) Whoever violates § 111.02(E) is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. If, in committing a first violation of § 111.02(E), the offender presented to the permit holder or his employee or agent a false, fictitious, or altered identification card, a false or fictitious driver’s license purportedly issued by any state, or a driver’s license issued by any state which has been altered, the offender is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be fined not less than $250 and not more than $1,000, and may be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not more than 6 months.
(b) On a second violation in which, for the second time, the offender presented to the permit holder or his employee or agent a false, fictitious, or altered identification card, a false or fictitious driver’s license purportedly issued by any state, or a driver’s license issued by any state which has been altered, the offender is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be fined not less than $500 nor more than $1,000, and may be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not more than 6 months. The court also may suspend the offender’s driver’s or commercial driver’s license or permit or nonresident operation privilege or deny the offender the opportunity to be issued a driver’s or commercial driver’s license for a period not exceeding 60 days.
(c) On a third or subsequent violation in which, for the third or subsequent time, the offender presented to the permit holder or his employee or agent a false, fictitious, or altered identification card, a false or fictitious driver’s license purportedly issued by any state, or a driver’s license issued by any state which has been altered, the offender is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be fined not less than $500 nor more than $1,000, and may be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not more than 6 months. The court also shall suspend the offender’s driver’s or commercial driver’s license or permit or nonresident operating privilege or deny the offender the opportunity to be issued a driver’s or commercial driver’s license for a period of 90 days, and the court may order that the suspension or denial remain in effect until the offender attains the age of 21 years. The court also may order the offender to perform a determinate number of hours of community service, with the court determining the actual number of hours and the nature of the community service the offender shall perform.
(‘73 Code, § 529.02) (Am. Ord. 13-91, passed 6-26-91; Am. Ord. 3-92, passed 3-11-92; Am. Ord. 6- 2008, passed 5-28-08) Penalty, see § 111.99