O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 3-3-24 (2019)

Dispensing, serving, selling, or taking orders for alcoholic beverages by persons under 18 years of age

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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(a) No person shall allow or require a person in his employment under 18 years of age to dispense, serve, sell, or take orders for any alcoholic beverages.

(b) This Code section shall not prohibit persons under 18 years of age who are employed in supermarkets, convenience stores, breweries, or drugstores from selling or handling alcoholic beverages which are sold for consumption off the premises.

History

Ga. L. 1958, p. 640, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1974, p. 460, § 1; Ga. L. 1976, p. 409, § 1; Code 1933, § 5A-510, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1573, § 1; Code 1933, § 5A-511, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1981, p. 1269, § 22.

Annotations

Cross references. - Designation of person under age 17 who possesses alcoholic beverages as a ‘‘child in need of services,’’ § 15-11-2(11). Contributing to delinquency of minor, § 16-12-1. Author-

ity of State Board of Education regarding instructional programs and materials pertaining to effects of alcohol, § 20-2-13. Age of majority, § 39-1-1. Parents’ right of action against persons selling or furnishing alcoholic beverages to underage child, § 51-1-18.

Law reviews. - For article recommending more consistency in age requirements of laws pertaining to welfare of minors, see 6 Ga. St. B. J. 189 (1969).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS City ordinance was unconstitutional as conflicting with statute. - Trial court erred by rejecting entertainers’ challenge under the uniformity clause, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. III, Sec.VI, Para. IV(a), to a city’s ordinance prohibiting persons aged 18 to 21 from entering adult

entertainment establishments where alcohol was served because the ordinance conflicted with O.C.G.A. §§ 3-3-23 and 3-3-24(a), allowing persons over 18 to work in such establishments. Willis v. City of Atlanta, 285 Ga. 775, 684 S.E.2d 271 (2009).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 45 Am. Jur. 2d, Intoxicating Liquors, §§ 52, 157, 220 et seq., 243, 324. C.J.S. - 48 C.J.S., Intoxicating Liquors, §§ 488 et seq, 511.

ALR. - Liability of state or municipality in tort for damages arising out of sale of intoxicating liquor by state or municipally operated liquor store or establishment, 95 A.L.R.3d 1243.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1998–2009 · leading case: Willis v. City of Atlanta, 684 S.E.2d 271 (Ga. 2009).
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Willis v. City of Atlanta, 684 S.E.2d 271 (Ga. 2009). · cites it 16× “IV (a) of the Georgia Constitution of 1983, 2 in that it is a local law that conflicts with and is thus preempted by the general law set forth in OCGA § 3-3-24 (a). That statute provides that “[n]o person shall allow or require a person in his employment under 18 years of age to…”
Hansen v. Etheridge, 501 S.E.2d 517 (Ga. Ct. App. 1998). · cites it 4× “The evidence raises factual issues that Sherri Etheridge engaged in various possible acts of criminal conduct in her apartment and in the apartment complex in having the party for her minor daughter: knowingly serving alcohol to minors, OCGA § 3-3-24; knowingly furnishing…”
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