2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 30-88a. Operator\'s license as proof of age. Misrepresentation of age to procure liquor.
Sec. 30-88a. Operator's license as proof of age. Misrepresentation of age to
procure liquor. Each person who attains the age of twenty-one years and has a motor
vehicle operator's license, containing a full-face photograph of such person, may use,
and each permittee may accept, such license as legal proof of the age of the licensee for
the purposes of this chapter. Any person who, for the purpose of procuring alcoholic
liquor, misrepresents his or her age or uses or exhibits an operator's license belonging
to any other person shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars or more than five
hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.
History: P.A. 82-68 substituted nineteen for eighteen years as the age at which a person with an operator's license may use his license as proof of age; P.A. 83-508 substituted twenty for nineteen years as the age at which a person with an operator's license may use his license as proof of age; P.A. 83-571 increased the fine from "not more than fifty dollars" to "not less than two hundred nor more than five hundred dollars"; P.A. 85-264 amended section to reflect raising of the drinking age from twenty to twenty-one; P.A. 93-139 made technical change, deleting obsolete reference to persons attaining age of twenty on or before September 1, 1985; P.A. 03-171 deleted reference to motorcycle operator's license and made a technical change for purposes of gender neutrality; P.A. 04-257 made technical changes, effective June 14, 2004.
See Sec. 1-1h re use of identity card as alternative to operator's license as proof of age.
See Sec. 14-111e re suspension of motor vehicle operator's license for misuse of operator's license to procure alcoholic liquor.
Cited. 207 C. 88, 94.
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