Ordinance 909 - Increase Drinking Age to 19 (Emergency)21
ORDINANCE NO. 909
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE KALISPELL CITY CODES REGARDING ALCOHOLIC
BEVERAGES TO CHANGE THE AGE OF PERSONS PERMITTED TO POSSESS ALCOH-
OLIC BEVERAGES OR TO WHOM ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES MAY BE SOLD, GIVEN
OR FURNISHED FROM EIGHTEEN TO NINETEEN YEARS OF AGE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL,
MONTANA, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 3-5 0£ the Kalispell City Code is hereby
amended to hereafter read as follows:
"Sec. 3-5. Possession by persons under nineteen,
It shall be unlawful for any person who shall not
have reached the age of nineteen _years to have in his
possession beer or liquor; proved, however, a person does
not commit this offense when in the course of his employ-
ment it is necessary to possess alcoholic beverages."
SECTION 2. Section 3-5,1 of the Kalispell City Code is hereby
amended to hereafter read as follows:
"Sec. 3-5.1. Sale or gift to persons under nineteen
prohibited. —'
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpora-
tion to sell, give away, furnish or dispose of intoxicating
liquor to any person or persons under the age of .nineteen
years.
Intoxicating liquor shall be construed to include
alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum, gin, beer, ale, porter
and wine or any liquid containing more than one-half
of one percent alcohol by volume."
SECTION 3. Section 3-9 of the Kalispell City Code is hereby
amended to hereafter read as follows:
"Sec. 3-9. Sales, etc., to certain persons prohibited.
No licensee as regulated by this article shall sell,
deliver or give away, or cause to permit to be sold,
delivered or given away any liquor to:
1. Any person under the age of nineteen years,
2. Any intoxicated person or persons actually,
apparently or obviously intoxicated.
3. A habitual drunkard,
4. An interdicted person as defined by the laws of
the state."
SECTION 4, Section 3-20 of the Kalispell City Code is hereby
amended to hereafter read as follows:
"Sec. 3-20. Sale, etc
intoxicated, etc,,.on
to minor, etc.,
ensed presmises.
It shall be unlawful for any licensed beer retailer
or club to sell or dispose of beer to any person under
the age of nineteen years, or to any person who shall
appear to be in an intoxicated or disorderly condition
or to allow or permit any intoxicated or disorderly
person to come into or remain in or about the premises
of any retailer."
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SECTION 5. An emergency is declared to exist and this ordinance
is effective immediately upon passage and adoption hereof.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL, MONTANA, AND
APPROVED BY THE MAYOR THIS 15TH DAY OF JANUARY , 1979.
ATTEST;
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Marjor a Giermann; City Clerk
Norma E. Happ, Mayor T
I, Marjorie Giermann, City Clerk of the City of Kalispell, Montana, do certify that on
the day of , 19-_, I posted a copy of the foregoing ordinance in
my office, and t same mained posted for a period of five days, and the foregoing i�
a true and correct copy of the ordinance as passed by the City Council,
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