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SPONSORED BY COUNCILMAN Branch
ORDINANCE NO. / 5-2+03
AN ORDINANCE AMENEDING CHAPTER 4 (ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES) SECTION
4-16 (PURCHASE OR POSSESSION BY MINORS) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF
JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, PROHIBITING THE PURCHASE OR ATTEMPTED
PURCHASE OF INTOXICATING LIQUOR BY A MINOR.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Chapter 4 (Alcoholic Beverages) Sec. 4-16 (Purchase or possession
by minors) of the Code of the City of Jefferson is amended as follows:
Sec. 4-16. Purchase or possession by minors.
A. Any person under the age of twenty-one years, who purchases or attempts to purchase.
any intoxicating liquor as defined in section 4-1, is guilty of code violation.
B. Any person under the age of twenty-one years, who has in his or her possession any
intoxicating liquor as defined in section 4-I is guilty of code violation.
C. Any person under the age of twenty-one years who has a detectable blood alcohol content
of more than two-hundredths of one percent or more by weight of alcohol in such person's
blood is guilty of code violation.
D. For purposes of determining violations of any provision of this chapter. or of any rule
or regulation of the supervisor of alcohol and tobacco control, a manufacturer-sealed container
describing that there is intoxicating liquor therein need not be opened or the contents therein
tested to verify that there is intoxicating liquor in such container. The alleged violator may
allege that there was not intoxicating liquor in such container, but the burden of proof of such
allegation is on such person. as it shall be presumed that such a sealed container describing
that there is intoxicating liquor therein contains intoxicating liquor.
E. For purposes of prosecution under this section or any other provision of this chapter involving an
alleged illegal sale or transfer of intoxicating liquor to a person under twenty-one years of age,
a manufacturer-sealed container describing that there is intoxicating liquor therein need not
be opened or the contents therein tested to verify that there is intoxicating liquor in such
container. The alleged violator may allege that there was not intoxicating liquor in such
container, but the burden of proof of such allegation is on such person. as it shall be presumed
that such a sealed container describing that there is intoxicating liquor therein contains
intoxicating liquor.
(Ord. 14316,§1, 1-22-2008;Ord. 14895, §1. 12-6-2011)
State law reference-Purchase,or possession,by minor prohibited. RSMo. § 31 1.325.
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Section 2. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after the date
of its passa e and approval.
Passed: ./il 1 i( Approved: t ( a 0 S
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