Ord 1791 - ENACTING SECTION 17-44 OF THE TOWN CODE OF LOS GATOS PERTAINING TO PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 21 WHO POSSESS OR CONSUME ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLICORDINANCE NO: 1791
AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS ENACTING SECTION 17 -44 OF THE
TOWN CODE OF LOS GATOS PERTAINING TO PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 21 WHO POSSESS
OR CONSUME ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS DOES HEREBY ORDAIN:
SECTION I
Section 17 -44 of the Los Gatos Town Code is enacted to read as
follows:
Section 17 -44 Certain Social Gatherings Unlawful
(a) No person under the age of twenty -one years shall have in his or
her possession or consume any alcoholic beverage at any place not
open to the public, unless that person is being supervised by his
or her parent or legal guardian.
(b) No person shall suffer, permit, allow or host a social gathering
at his or her place of residence where one or more persons under
the age of twenty -one (21) are present and alcoholic beverages
are in the possession of, or being consumed by, any person under
the age of twenty -one years; and there is no supervision by the
parent or legal guardian of each of the participants under the
age of twenty -one.
(c) Any person violating this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION II
This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force thirty (30) days
from and after it is adopted. Within 15 days after this ordinance is adopted
the Town Clerk shall cause it to be published once in a newspaper of general
circulation published and circulated in the Town.
This ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the
Town Council of the Town of Los Gatos on April 17, 1989 and adopted by
the following vote as an ordinance of the Town of Los Gatos at a regular
meeting of the Town Council of the Town of Los Gatos on May 1 1989.
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS Robert L. Hamilton
Thomas J. Ferrito,
r Joanne Benjamin
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS Brent N. Ventura
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS Eric D. Carlson
SIGNED:
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ATTEST:
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