§ 3-5. Purchases by minors.  


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  • No person under the age of twenty-one (21) years shall at any time purchase, obtain, consume, or bring into any premises within the city, for which a license has been issued to sell intoxicating liquor on the premises, any alcoholic liquor as defined by this chapter. Nor shall any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years, make any false representations as to the age of the person for whom said alcoholic liquor is desired. Nor shall any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years furnish any false information regarding his or her age or make any false representations as to his or her age to any law enforcement officer, or to any person in charge of or employed in a place of business where alcoholic liquor is sold, for the purpose of obtaining a sale of any alcoholic liquor to himself or herself; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prohibit the purchase of alcoholic liquor by a minor under authority of and pursuant to a prescription of a duly licensed physician.

(Code 1977, § 9.175; Ord. No. 493, 8-3-92)