Title 4 ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Chapter 4.08 CEREAL MALT BEVERAGES
4.08.210 Purchase, consumption or possession of liquor or cereal malt beverages by a minor and persons under twenty-one years of age--Penalty.
A. Except with regard to serving of alcoholic liquor or cereal malt
beverage as permitted by KSA 41-308a, 41-2610 or 41-2704 or KSA Supp. 41-308b,
and amendments thereto, no person under twenty-one (21) years of age shall
possess, consume, obtain, purchase or attempt to obtain or purchase alcoholic
liquor or cereal malt beverage except as authorized by law.
B. Violation
of this section by a person eighteen (18) or more years of age but less than
twenty-one (21) years of age is a Class C violation for which the minimum fine
is one hundred dollars ($100.00).
C. Any person less than eighteen (18)
years of age who violates this section is a juvenile offender under Kansas
juvenile offenders code. Upon adjudication thereof and as a condition of
disposition, the court shall require the offender to pay a fine of not less than
one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars
($500.00).
D. In addition to or in lieu of any other penalty provided
for a violation of this section, the court may order the offender to do either
or both of the following:
1. Perform forty (40) hours of public service;
or
2. Attend and satisfactorily complete a suitable educational or
training program dealing with the effects of alcohol or other chemical
substances when ingested by humans.
E. This section shall not apply to
the possession and consumption of cereal malt beverage by a person under the
legal age for consumption of cereal malt beverage when such possession and
consumption is permitted and supervised, and such beverage is furnished, by the
person's parent or legal guardian. (Prior code § 4-221)
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