Posted on 07/05/2007 4:49:32 AM PDT by Calpernia
Trenton "In our colleges, particularly the frat houses, many kids are dying from binge drinking," says State Senator Shirley Turner. She says underage binge drinking is happening at colleges, beach parties and backyard summer picnics and since these kids are minors it doesn't take a Mensa member to figure out they must be getting their alcohol from an adult.
Under a bill Turner is sponsoring all kegs that are sold by retailers to consumers would have to be affixed with a keg registration seal which displays a registration number and the name of the licensee offering the keg for sale to the consumer. The seller would be required to complete a keg declaration of receipt form which must contain the following information: the keg registration seal number, the consumer's telephone number, the name and address of the consumer verified by a valid identification document, and the type and registration number of the identification presented by the consumer.
The legislation goes even one step further. The keg declaration of receipt form must also contain a statement signed by the consumer stating that the consumer is 21 years of age or older, does not intend to allow persons under 21 years of age to illegally consume any of the alcoholic beverage purchased, and will not remove or obliterate the keg registration seal affixed to the keg. A $50 deposit would be required for each keg and that deposit would be forfeited if the keg is not returned with the keg registration seal attached.
"If police raid a party," says Turner, "and they find a keg it would tagged with the ID of the person who bought it…..those people who are found to purchase this keg for an underage drinker would be subject to a fine of $500 or 30 days in jail."
The information collected for the keg declaration of receipt could only be released to the Director of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, the director's authorized representatives, or other law enforcement officers. The seller would maintain the receipt form for two years following the date of purchase. The bill would also require information about keg registration to be included in licensee education courses.
I can just see something like this being implemented on ‘fatty foods’.
ping
RIFIDS for kegs alert!
Look at you with the wisecracks so early in the morning!
Happy 4th Frithguild :)
What? No 3-day waiting period?
IOW's, Shirley Turner's no-good brother-in-law needs a gubmint job.
Meanwhile, budding brain surgeons will soon learn how to transfer product from a registered keg into one of the unregistered ones laying in the basement of the frat house, brew their own, or request their product in bottles and/ or cans. Could be that vinters are smiling?
"Mr Kennedy... By our records here, throughout your college years while in the fraternity 'Tappa Kegga Brew' you purchased (referencing notes) 79 kegs of beer, 132 Beer Bongs, 54 quarts of Jack Daniels, 17 quarts of Grey Goose Vodka, 33 quarts of Chivas, 228 packs of 'rolling papers', and 1 'SloGin Fizz Mix'. You failed to return 7 kegs and 18 beer bongs. And now you're asking for a 'new liver.' I just don't see how we can trust you with it..."
In other words, "we must make it harder to buy beer, because people are dying from drinking liquor."
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Nah. The more of us that leave...the less creative they need to be with elections.
First they came for the binge drinkers....
Don’t forget, they is a proposal out there to track baking soda purchasing too.
I’m more annoyed with that then I am about kegs. I’ve never bought a keg in my life.
But I see the same methodology in waiting for fatty food purchasing.
Why would they want to track baking soda?
Here you go:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1813865/posts
HB 1189 would restrict baking soda sales.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1813169/posts
Lawmaker wants baking soda to be sold behind counter
What a riot! Thanks for the links.
I was wondering about that - last I heard, the used keg was worth more as scrap than the required deposit.
Obvious solution - raise the deposit amount!
Obvious to you and me, but we're not from the government.................
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