6034678 Resolution 21-482, Sale to Minors Penalty Clarification Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

21-482

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

May 3, 2016        

 

                                                                                                                                             

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend Chapter 7 of Title 25 of the District of Columbia Official Code to clarify the penalties for sale to minors violations and the failure to ascertain the legal drinking age violations.

 

            RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Sale to Minors Penalty Clarification Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016”.

 

            Sec. 2. (a) The current language in D.C. Official Code §§ 25-781(f) and 25-783(c) needs to be amended to eliminate existing confusion among licensed establishments cited for selling alcoholic beverages to a minor or for failing to check identification to clarify how the Board determines the penalties for subsequent sale to a minor and the failure to check identification violations. 

            (b) Emergency legislation is needed to immediately clarify the law for licensed establishments and to avoid any adverse impact on the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board when it imposes a penalty on an establishment that has violated the law.

 

            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 Sale to Minors Penalty Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2016 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.