Guam, 7. November 2006 : Alkoholgenuss ab 21 Jahren erlaubt

        INITIATIVE QUESTION
SHALL PROPOSAL A, AN INITIATIVE TO
RAISE THE MINIMUM AGE FOR CONSUMPTION
AND PURCHASE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
TO TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE,
BE ADOPTED BY THE VOTERS OF GUAM?
        VOTE "YES" OR "NO"
( ) YES
( ) NO

"PROPOSAL A

Coalition 21
Save Lives, Save Families

Short Title: To change the Minimum Legal Age of Drinking and Purchasing of Alcohol to age 21.

Change Sections §3419, §3420 & §3619 Chapter 3 - Alcoholic Beverage Control of Title 11 Guam Code Annotated.

§3419. Same: To Persons Under Age 21. A licensee, his agent or employee shall not sell, serve or give nor permit to be sold, given or served any alcoholic beverages to any person under twenty-one (21) years of age. For the purpose of preventing any violation of this section, any licensee of his agent or employee may refuse to sell, give or serve alcoholic beverages to any person who is unable to produce adequate written evidence that he or she is over the age of twenty-one (21) years. In any criminal prosecution or proceeding for the suspension or revocation of any license and based upon a violation of this section, proof that any defendant licensee or his agent or employee demanded and was shown, before furnishing any alcoholic beverage to a minor, an identification card or other bona fide documentary evidence of majority of such person shall be a defense to such prosecution or proceeding for the suspension or revocation of any license. Every person who violates this section shall be guilty of a petty misdemeanor.

§3420. Same: False Identification by Persons Under Age 21. Any person, under twenty-one (21) years of age, who exhibits a false identification card or false document for the purpose of purchasing or obtaining alcoholic beverages, shall be guilty of a petty misdemeanor.

§3619. Same: Persons Under Age 21. Any person under the age of twenty-one (2l) years purchasing or in possession of any alcoholic beverages shall be guilty of a petty misdemeanor. This provision, with regards to possession of alcoholic beverages, does not apply to persons working for an establishment that sells, gives or serves alcoholic beverages in the course of their employment but only while in the process of performing work for and on behalf of said establishment."