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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 ...
Jim Knox, the California managing director for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, said that the new law will undermine the state’s decades-long fight to create smoke-free ...
Alcohol laws can restrict those who can produce alcohol, those who can buy it (often with minimum age restrictions and laws against selling to an already intoxicated person), when one can buy it (with hours of serving or days of selling set out), labelling and advertising, the types of alcoholic beverage that can be sold (e.g., some stores can ...
Some states have lower alcohol taxes and even made alcohol available to be purchased tax-free at state-owned stores to compete with Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts. [13] Teen drinking in high school is down 23% since 1983, when the minimum legal drinking age was enacted, and binge drinking is down 17%. [14]
Alcohol-free days provide a baseline and help people cut down on problematic drinking. [28] One review showed that among drinkers (not limited to moderate consumption levels), daily drinking in comparison to non-daily drinking was associated with incidence of liver cirrhosis. [71]
Plenty of fascinating and strange food laws are rumored to exist across the country, but whether they are fact or fiction is hard to tell. If it didn't have an eyewitness report or the language in ...
In California, in Mercer v. DMV (1991) 53 Cal.3d 753, [3] the California State Supreme Court contrasted the term "drive", commonly understood to require volitional movement of the vehicle, with the term "driver", defined in California Vehicle Code § 305 as one who is either driving or in actual physical control. The court pointed out that the ...
More than a decade after California passed the Human Right to Water Act, about 1 million residents still lack access to clean, safe, affordable water.