LEGAL DRINKING AGE. The age of 21 years or older.

OFF-SALE RETAILER. Any person operating a bona fide business regularly established retail liquor store selling alcoholic beverages and any established retail store selling commodities other than alcoholic beverages and engaged in the sale of alcoholic beverages in the original unbroken package, to be taken away from the premises of the retailer and to be consumed off the premises.

ON-SALE RETAILER. Any person operating an establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold in the original container for consumption on or off the premises or in individual portions for consumption on the premises.

PERSON. Includes a partnership, limited liability company, association, company or corporation, as well as a natural person.

POSSESS A SPIRITUOUS LIQUOR. Actual or in constructive control, custody or detention of the spirituous liquor by a person under the legal drinking age. It also includes a person under the legal drinking age having spirituous liquor in one’s body, or a concentration thereof in one’s breath, urine, blood or other bodily substance, regardless of the geographic location the spirituous liquor was ingested.

SPIRITUOUS LIQUOR. Alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum, tequila, mescal, bacanora, gin, wine, porter ale, beer, any malt liquor or malt beverage, absinthe, a compound or mixture of any of them or of any of them with any vegetable or other substance, alcohol bitters, bitters containing alcohol, any liquid mixture or preparation, whether patented or otherwise, which produces intoxication, fruits preserved in ardent spirits and beverages containing more than one-half of 1% of alcoholic volume. (Ord. 166 § 1, passed 5-10-2000. Code 1982 § 9-1-7(B). Code 2012 § 92.16.)