[Ord. No. 1249 § 1, 6-20-2016]
A.
No licensee or other merchant or business owner, or any employee or agent, shall, on the premises on which the business is conducted, sell, vend, give away, allow, or otherwise supply: (i) any intoxicating liquor to any person who is under the age of twenty-one (21) years, or permit such person to drink or consume intoxicating liquor, or (ii) sell, give away, lend, permit the use of or otherwise dispose of any soda water, ginger ale, water, ice, glass, spoon, container, or receptacle to any person with the intent or knowledge that the same will be consumed or used in connection with the drinking or consuming of any intoxicating liquor by a person who is under the age of twenty-one (21) years.
B.
This Section shall not apply to the supplying of intoxicating liquor to any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years by their parent or guardian outside of a licensed premises and if otherwise not in violation of this Chapter, or the supplying of intoxicating liquor to any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years for medicinal purposes, or the administering of intoxicating liquor to such person by a physician.
C.
It shall be a defense to prosecution under this Section if:
1.
The defendant sold or provided the intoxicating liquor to the minor with reasonable cause to believe that the minor was twenty-one (21) or more years of age; and
2.
To purchase the intoxicating liquor, the person exhibited to the defendant a driver's license, Missouri non-driver's identification card, or other official or apparently official document containing a photograph of the minor and purporting to establish that such minor was twenty-one (21) years of age.