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A person must be at least 15-17 years of age to publicly drink an alcoholic beverage in Texas, with some exceptions. [1]Texas is one of ten states (California, Colorado, Maryland, Montana, New York, Texas, West Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming) that allow consumption by minors in the presence of consenting and supervising family members.
Today, TABC regulates more than 54,000 licensed businesses in Texas as well as more than 100,000 out-of-state producers and distributors of alcoholic beverages. The agency collects more than $220 million per year in state excise and import taxes, as well as a further $76 million in licensing fees, surcharges, and administrative fines.
In the United States, a Minor in Possession or a MIP (also referred to as a Possession of Alcohol Under the Legal Age or PAULA), is any person under the legal drinking age of 21 who possesses or consumes alcohol. Underage consumption is illegal, typically a misdemeanor.
Selling, serving and giving alcohol to a minor is a class 4 felony punishable by up to 18 months in prison, [106] except when "a parent, legal guardian or adult spouse of a minor serves alcoholic beverages to that minor on real property, other than licensed premises, under the control of the parent, legal guardian or adult spouse", [107] or for ...
Jun. 5—Last month, an Odessa widow filed a civil lawsuit against three bars alleging they over-served her husband in the hours before he died in an alcohol-related crash, but statistics show it ...
In Texas, this also applies to a minor served alcohol at a residential property. [6] In other states, dram shop liability only extends to serving the "habitually intoxicated". [citation needed] The majority of states allow for recovery when the defendant knew (or should have known) the customer was intoxicated. [2]
Tattooing a minor is a class a misdemeanor, [95] breach of body piercing law is a class b misdemeanor. [97] Tattoo artists and body piercers are licensed by the state department of health, tattoo shops require a certificate from the local health department. [98] [99] Tenn. Code §§ 62-38-201-310 [100] Texas 18 (piercings excepted) [101] [102]
For example, a minor can emancipate at 16 in the US (or younger depending on the state) but must still wait until 18 to vote or buy a firearm, and 21 to buy alcohol or tobacco. The age 18 is identified as the age of adulthood in the Jewish Talmud relative to having sound judgement to make monetary decisions as a judge. [ 12 ]