SF0119 - Minor purchasing alcohol-license suspension.

 

2001

State of Wyoming

01LSO-0333

 

 

 

SENATE FILE NO.  SF0119

 

 

Minor purchasing alcohol-license suspension.

 

Sponsored by:  Senator(s) Hanes and Representative(s)
Edwards

 

 

A BILL

 

for

 

 1  AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages; specifying
 2  penalties for minors purchasing alcohol; providing for
 3  driver's license suspension; and providing for an effective
 4  date.

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 6  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

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 8         Section 1.  W.S. 12-6-101(c) is amended to read:

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10         12-6-101.  Sale or possession prohibited; when
11  possession unlawful; public drunkenness; falsification of
12  identification; penalty; prima facie identification as
13  defense.

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15         (c)  Any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years
16  who attempts in any manner to purchase alcoholic or malt

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 1  beverages or who falsifies any identification or uses any
 2  false identification in order to obtain alcoholic or malt
 3  beverages is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction,
 4  shall be fined not more than seven hundred fifty dollars
 5  ($750.00), imprisoned for not more than six (6) months, or
 6  both. In addition to the penalty imposed under this
 7  subsection and upon a second or subsequent conviction, the
 8  division of motor vehicles shall suspend the convicted
 9  person's driver's license or nonresident operating
10  privilegeas follows:

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12              (i)  Thirty (30) days for asecond conviction;

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14              (ii)  Ninety (90) days for a third conviction or
15  subsequent conviction.

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17         Section 2.  This act is effective July 1, 2001.

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19                         (END)

 

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