4253661 Resolution 20-64, "Egregious First-Time Sale to Minor Clarification Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2013"

A RESOLUTION

 

20-64

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

March 5, 2013

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend the definition of an “egregious” first-time sale to minor violation and clarify that an Alcoholic Beverage Control Board licensee that can be established to have had a pattern of prior alcoholic beverage sales or service to minors has committed an “egregious” first-time sale to minor violation and is not entitled to a written warning. 

 

 

            RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the "Egregious First-Time Sale to Minor Clarification Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2013".

 

            Sec. 2.  There exists an immediate need to amend subsection 807.1 of Title 23 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations to add to the definition of an “egregious first-time sale to minor violation” language that clarifies that when it can be established that a licensee has had a pattern of prior alcoholic beverage sales or service to minors, the licensee is not entitled to a written warning prior to issuance of a violation.  This has been an ongoing problem that was highlighted by the Channel 9 WUSA exposé́ last year, in which there was video footage which clearly established a pattern of ongoing sales to minors by the Town Square Market Liquor Store.

 

Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Egregious First-Time Sale to Minor Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2013 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.