§ 21-303. Definitions.

For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply:

Alcoholic beverage means alcohol, or any beverage containing more than one-half of one percent of alcohol by volume, which is capable of use for beverage purposes, either alone or when diluted, including but not limited to beer, wine, ale, liquor, distilled spirits and wine coolers.

Gathering involving underage drinking means a party or gathering of two (2) or more persons at which one or more underage person possesses or consumes an alcoholic beverage.

Other private property refers to hotel or motel room; an assembly hall or meeting room; a common room of a dwelling unit used for a party (e.g., recreation room of an apartment building); a site in a privately owned campground; privately owned vacant lot; privately owned agricultural land; or privately owned rural land whether occupied as a dwelling, part or other social function, and whether owned, leased, rented or used without compensation.

Public safety services and/or response costs means the costs associated with responses by law enforcement, fire and other emergency response providers to gatherings involving underage drinking, including but not limited to:

(1)

The portion of the cost of salaries and benefits of law enforcement, fire or other emergency response personnel for the amount of time spent responding to, remaining at, or otherwise dealing with the gathering(s) involving underage drinking, and the administrative costs attributable to such response(s);

(2)

The cost of any medical treatment to or for any law enforcement, fire or other emergency response personnel injured responding to, remaining at or leaving the scene of a gathering involving underage drinking; and

(3)

The cost of the use of any equipment or property, and the cost of repairing any equipment or property damaged, in responding to, remaining at or leaving the scene of a gathering involving underage drinking.

Residence includes a dwelling unit such as a home, condominium or apartment; structures on the residence other than the dwelling such as a garage, studio, tent, boat dock, swimming pool, barn or boat house; land on the residence whether improved or unimproved such as a yard, patio, open fields, piers or lake shores; water bodies on the residence such as a pond, lake, river or stream; a motor vehicle, camper or trailer located on the residence or a boat, watercraft, or other marine vessel located on the residence whether occupied on a temporary or permanent basis, whether occupied as a dwelling or for a party or gathering, and whether owned, leased, rented, or used with or without compensation.

Underage person means any person less than twenty-one (21) years of age.

(Ord. No. 2016-12-15-0999 , § 1, 12-15-16)