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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3162

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 3162  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 4        "Section 5.  The Liquor Control Act of 1934 is amended by
 5    changing Section 6-16 and 6-16.1 as follows:

 6        (235 ILCS 5/6-16) (from Ch. 43, par. 131)
 7        Sec. 6-16.  Prohibited sales and possession.
 8        (a)  (i)  No licensee nor any officer, associate, member,
 9    representative, agent, or employee  of  such  licensee  shall
10    sell,  give,  or deliver alcoholic liquor to any person under
11    the age of 21 years or to any intoxicated person,  except  as
12    provided  in  Section 6-16.1. (ii) No express company, common
13    carrier, or  contract  carrier  that  carries  or  transports
14    alcoholic   liquor  for  delivery  within  this  State  shall
15    knowingly give or knowingly deliver to a residential  address
16    any   shipping   container   clearly  labeled  as  containing
17    alcoholic liquor and labeled as  requiring  signature  of  an
18    adult of at least 21 years of age to any person in this State
19    under  the  age  of  21  years.  An  express  company, common
20    carrier, or contract carrier that carries or transports  such
21    alcoholic  liquor for delivery within this State shall obtain
22    a signature acknowledging receipt of the alcoholic liquor  by
 
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 1    an  adult  who is at least 21 years of age.  (iii) No person,
 2    after purchasing or  otherwise  obtaining  alcoholic  liquor,
 3    shall sell, give, or deliver such alcoholic liquor to another
 4    person  under  the age of 21 years, except in the performance
 5    of a religious ceremony or service.  Any person who  violates
 6    the  provisions of item (i), (ii), or (iii) of this paragraph
 7    of this subsection (a) is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor and
 8    the person's sentence shall include, but shall not be limited
 9    to, a fine of not less than $500.
10        If   a   licensee   or   officer,   associate,    member,
11    representative,  agent,  or  employee  of  the licensee, or a
12    representative, agent, or employee  of  an  express  company,
13    common   carrier,   or   contract  carrier  that  carries  or
14    transports alcoholic liquor for delivery within  this  State,
15    is prosecuted under this paragraph of this subsection (a) for
16    selling,  giving,  or delivering alcoholic liquor to a person
17    under the age of 21 years, the person under 21 years  of  age
18    who  attempted  to buy or receive the alcoholic liquor may be
19    prosecuted pursuant to Section 6-20 of this Act,  unless  the
20    person  under  21 years of age was acting under the authority
21    of a law enforcement  agency,  the  Illinois  Liquor  Control
22    Commission,  or  a local liquor control commissioner pursuant
23    to a plan or action to investigate, patrol,  or  conduct  any
24    similar enforcement action.
25        For  the  purpose  of  preventing  the  violation of this
26    Section, any  licensee,  or  his  agent  or  employee,  or  a
27    representative,  agent,  or  employee  of an express company,
28    common  carrier,  or  contract  carrier   that   carries   or
29    transports  alcoholic  liquor for delivery within this State,
30    shall  may  refuse  to  sell,  deliver,  or  serve  alcoholic
31    beverages to any person who is  unable  to  produce  adequate
32    written  evidence  of identity and of the fact that he or she
33    is over the age of 21 years, if requested  by  the  licensee,
34    agent, employee, or representative.
 
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 1        Adequate  written  evidence  of  age  and identity of the
 2    person is a document issued by a federal, state,  county,  or
 3    municipal  government,  or  subdivision  or  agency  thereof,
 4    including,  but  not  limited  to, a motor vehicle operator's
 5    license, a registration certificate issued under the  Federal
 6    Selective  Service Act, or an identification card issued to a
 7    member   of   the   Armed    Forces.     Proof    that    the
 8    defendant-licensee,   or   his  employee  or  agent,  or  the
 9    representative, agent, or employee of  the  express  company,
10    common   carrier,   or   contract  carrier  that  carries  or
11    transports alcoholic liquor for delivery  within  this  State
12    demanded,  was  shown and reasonably relied upon such written
13    evidence in any transaction forbidden by this Section  is  an
14    affirmative  defense  in any criminal prosecution therefor or
15    to any proceedings for the suspension or  revocation  of  any
16    license  based  thereon.    It  shall  not,  however,  be  an
17    affirmative  defense  if  the  agent or employee accepted the
18    written evidence knowing it to be false or fraudulent.  If  a
19    false  or  fraudulent  Illinois  driver's license or Illinois
20    identification card is presented by a  person  less  than  21
21    years  of  age  to  a  licensee  or  the  licensee's agent or
22    employee for the purpose of ordering, purchasing,  attempting
23    to  purchase,  or otherwise obtaining or attempting to obtain
24    the serving of any alcoholic beverage,  the  law  enforcement
25    officer  or agency investigating the incident shall, upon the
26    conviction of the person who presented the fraudulent license
27    or identification,  make  a  report  of  the  matter  to  the
28    Secretary  of  State  on  a form provided by the Secretary of
29    State.
30        However, no agent or employee of the  licensee  shall  be
31    disciplined or discharged for selling or furnishing liquor to
32    a  person  under  21  years  of  age if the agent or employee
33    demanded and was shown, before furnishing liquor to a  person
34    under  21  years of age, adequate written evidence of age and
 
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 1    identity of the person issued by a federal, state, county  or
 2    municipal  government,  or  subdivision  or  agency  thereof,
 3    including  but  not  limited  to  a  motor vehicle operator's
 4    license, a registration certificate issued under the  Federal
 5    Selective  Service Act, or an identification card issued to a
 6    member of the Armed Forces. This  paragraph,  however,  shall
 7    not  apply  if  the  agent  or  employee accepted the written
 8    evidence knowing it to be false or fraudulent.
 9        Any person who sells, gives, or furnishes to  any  person
10    under  the  age  of 21 years any false or fraudulent written,
11    printed, or photostatic evidence of the age and  identity  of
12    such  person  or  who sells, gives or furnishes to any person
13    under the age of 21 years evidence of age and  identification
14    of  any  other  person is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor and
15    the person's sentence shall include, but shall not be limited
16    to, a fine of not less than $500.
17        Any person under the age of  21  years  who  presents  or
18    offers  to  any licensee, his agent or employee, any written,
19    printed or photostatic evidence of age and identity  that  is
20    false,  fraudulent,  or  not  actually his or her own for the
21    purpose of ordering, purchasing, attempting  to  purchase  or
22    otherwise  procuring or attempting to procure, the serving of
23    any alcoholic beverage, who falsely states in writing that he
24    or she is at least 21 years of age when  receiving  alcoholic
25    liquor  from  a  representative,  agent,  or  employee  of an
26    express company, common carrier, or contract carrier, or  who
27    has in his or her possession any false or fraudulent written,
28    printed,  or  photostatic  evidence  of  age and identity, is
29    guilty of a Class A misdemeanor  and  the  person's  sentence
30    shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following:  a
31    fine of not less than $500 and at least 25 hours of community
32    service.    If  possible,  any  community  service  shall  be
33    performed for an alcohol abuse prevention program.
34        Any person  under  the  age  of  21  years  who  has  any
 
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 1    alcoholic  beverage in his or her possession on any street or
 2    highway or in any public place or in any place  open  to  the
 3    public is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.  This Section does
 4    not apply to possession by a person under the age of 21 years
 5    making  a  delivery  of an alcoholic beverage in pursuance of
 6    the order of his or her parent or in pursuance of his or  her
 7    employment.
 8        (a-1)  It  is  unlawful  for  any  parent  or guardian to
 9    permit his or her residence to be used by an invitee  of  the
10    parent's  child  or  the  guardian's  ward, if the invitee is
11    under the age of 21, in a manner that constitutes a violation
12    of this Section.  A parent or  guardian  is  deemed  to  have
13    permitted  his  or  her  residence to be used in violation of
14    this Section if he or she knowingly authorizes,  enables,  or
15    permits  such  use  to  occur by failing to control access to
16    either the residence or the alcoholic  liquor  maintained  in
17    the residence.  Any person who violates this subsection (a-1)
18    is  guilty of a Class A misdemeanor and the person's sentence
19    shall include, but shall not be limited to,  a  fine  of  not
20    less  than  $500.   Nothing in this subsection (a-1) shall be
21    construed to prohibit the giving of  alcoholic  liquor  to  a
22    person  under  the  age  of  21 years in the performance of a
23    religious ceremony or service.
24        (b)  Except as otherwise provided in this Section whoever
25    violates this Section shall, in addition to  other  penalties
26    provided for in this Act, be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
27        (c)  Any  person shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor
28    where he or she knowingly permits a gathering at a  residence
29    which he or she occupies of two or more persons where any one
30    or  more  of  the  persons  is  under 21 years of age and the
31    following factors also apply:
32             (1)  the person occupying the residence  knows  that
33        any  such  person under the age of 21 is in possession of
34        or is consuming any alcoholic beverage; and
 
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 1             (2)  the possession or consumption of the alcohol by
 2        the person under 21 is not otherwise  permitted  by  this
 3        Act; and
 4             (3)  the  person  occupying the residence knows that
 5        the person under the age of 21 leaves the residence in an
 6        intoxicated condition.
 7        For  the  purposes  of  this  subsection  (c)  where  the
 8    residence has an owner and a tenant or  lessee,  there  is  a
 9    rebuttable presumption that the residence is occupied only by
10    the tenant or lessee.
11        (d)  Any  person who rents a hotel or motel room from the
12    proprietor or agent thereof for the purpose of  or  with  the
13    knowledge that such room shall be used for the consumption of
14    alcoholic  liquor  by persons under the age of 21 years shall
15    be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
16    (Source: P.A. 89-250,  eff.  1-1-96;  90-355,  eff.  8-10-97;
17    90-432,  eff.  1-1-98;  90-655,  eff.  7-30-98;  90-739, eff.
18    8-13-98.)

19        (235 ILCS 5/6-16.1)
20        Sec. 6-16.1.  Enforcement actions.
21        (a)  A  licensee  or  an  officer,   associate,   member,
22    representative,  agent,  or  employee of a licensee may sell,
23    give, or deliver alcoholic liquor to a person under  the  age
24    of  21  years  or  authorize  the  sale, gift, or delivery of
25    alcoholic liquor to a  person  under  the  age  of  21  years
26    pursuant  to  a  plan  or  action  to investigate, patrol, or
27    otherwise conduct a "sting operation" or  enforcement  action
28    against  a person employed by the licensee or on any licensed
29    premises if  the  licensee  or  officer,  associate,  member,
30    representative,  agent,  or employee of the licensee provides
31    written notice, at least 14 days before the "sting operation"
32    or  enforcement  action,  unless  governing   body   of   the
33    municipality  or  county  having  jurisdiction sets a shorter
 
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 1    period by ordinance, to the  law  enforcement  agency  having
 2    jurisdiction, the local liquor control commissioner, or both.
 3    Notice  provided  under  this  Section  shall  be valid for a
 4    "sting operation" or enforcement action conducted  within  60
 5    days  of  the  provision of that notice, unless the governing
 6    body of the municipality or county having jurisdiction sets a
 7    shorter period by ordinance.
 8        (b)  A local liquor control commission or unit  of  local
 9    government  that  conducts  alcohol  and  tobacco  compliance
10    operations shall establish a policy and standards for alcohol
11    and  tobacco  compliance  operations to investigate whether a
12    licensee is furnishing (1) alcoholic liquor to persons  under
13    21  years  of  age in violation of this Act or (2) tobacco to
14    persons in violation of the Sale of Tobacco to Minors Act.
15        (c)  The  Illinois  Law  Enforcement  Training  Standards
16    Board shall develop a model policy  and  guidelines  for  the
17    operation  of  alcohol and tobacco compliance checks by local
18    law  enforcement  officers.   The  Illinois  Law  Enforcement
19    Training Standards Board shall also require  the  supervising
20    officers  of  such  compliance  checks  to have met a minimum
21    training standard as determined  by  the  Board.   The  Board
22    shall  have  the right to waive any training based on current
23    written policies  and  procedures  for  alcohol  and  tobacco
24    compliance  check  operations and in-service training already
25    administered by the local law enforcement agency, department,
26    or office.
27        (d)  The provisions of subsections (b)  and  (c)  do  not
28    apply   to   a  home  rule  unit  with  more  than  2,000,000
29    inhabitants.
30        (e)  A home rule unit, other than a home rule  unit  with
31    more than 2,000,000 inhabitants, may not regulate enforcement
32    actions  in  a  manner  inconsistent  with  the regulation of
33    enforcement actions under this Section.  This subsection  (e)
34    is  a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article
 
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 1    VII of the Illinois Constitution on the  concurrent  exercise
 2    by  home  rule units of powers and functions exercised by the
 3    State.
 4    (Source: P.A. 90-355, eff. 8-10-97.)

 5        Section 99.   Effective  date.   This  Act  takes  effect
 6    January 1, 2002.".

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