SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1996

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES DEMPSEY, PORTWOOD, HOLT,

SHOEMAKER (8) (Co-sponsors), CUNNINGHAM, BEARDEN, BEHNEN, CRAWFORD,

REINHART AND WILSON (42).

Read 1st time February 20, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 311.320, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to misrepresentation of age by a minor to obtain liquor, with penalty provisions.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 311.320, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 311.320, to read as follows:

311.320. 1. Any person of the age of seventeen years and under the age of twenty-one years who shall represent that he has attained the age of twenty-one years for the purpose of purchasing, asking for or in any way receiving any intoxicating liquor, except in cases authorized by law, shall upon conviction be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person under the age of seventeen years who shall represent that he has attained the age of twenty-one years for the purpose of purchasing, asking for or in any way receiving any intoxicating liquor, except in cases authorized by law, may be considered a delinquent child and may be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of chapter 211, RSMo.

2. In addition to any other penalties established in subsection 1 of this section and established in sections 577.500 to 577.530, RSMo, any person who is less than twenty-one years of age who uses a reproduced, modified or altered chauffeur's license, motor vehicle operator's license, identification card issued by any uniformed service of the United States, passport or identification card established in section 302.181, RSMo, for the purpose of purchasing, asking for or in any way receiving any intoxicating liquor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor [and], shall be subject to a fine of five hundred dollars [for each separate offense], and shall have his or her driver's license revoked for one year, if this is the person's first offense pursuant to this subsection. For the second and all subsequent offenses pursuant to this subsection, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, shall be subject to a fine of one thousand dollars for each separate offense, and shall have his or her driver's license revoked for one year.


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