Sec. 30-86b. Photographing a person whose age is in doubt, or photocopying such person's driver's license or identity card. Use of photograph or photocopy. Regulations. Affirmative defense.
Sec. 30-86b. Photographing a person whose age is in doubt, or photocopying
such person's driver's license or identity card. Use of photograph or photocopy.
Regulations. Affirmative defense. (a) A permittee issued a permit pursuant to this
chapter or an agent or employee of such permittee may require any person whose age
is in question to have such person's photograph be taken by, and a photocopy of such
person's driver's license or identity card issued in accordance with the provisions of
section 1-1h, be made by, such permittee, agent or employee as a condition of selling
or delivering alcoholic liquor to such person.
(b) No permittee or agent or employee of a permittee shall use a photograph taken
or a photocopy made pursuant to subsection (a) of this section for a purpose other than
the purpose specified in said subsection (a).
(c) No permittee or agent or employee of a permittee shall sell or otherwise disseminate a photograph taken or a photocopy made pursuant to subsection (a) of this section,
or any information derived from such photocopy, to any third party for any purpose
including, but not limited to, any marketing, advertising or promotional activities, except
that a permittee or an agent or employee of a permittee may release such photograph,
photocopy or information pursuant to a court order.
(d) The Department of Consumer Protection shall adopt regulations, in accordance
with chapter 54, to establish guidelines and specifications for the photographic equipment to be used and the format of the photograph to be taken by a permittee or an agent
or employee of a permittee.
(e) In any prosecution of a permittee or an agent or employee of a permittee for
selling or delivering alcoholic liquor to a minor in violation of subsection (b) of section
30-86, it shall be an affirmative defense that such permittee, agent or employee sold or
delivered alcoholic liquor to such minor in good faith and in reasonable reliance upon
the identification presented by such minor and, pursuant to subsection (a) of this section,
photographed the minor and made a photocopy of such identification. In support of such
defense, such permittee, agent or employee may introduce evidence of such photograph
and photocopy.
(P.A. 04-230, S. 1.)
History: (Revisor's note: In 2005, a reference to "Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection" was changed
editorially by the Revisors to "Department of Consumer Protection" to reflect the repeal of the merger of the Departments
of Agriculture and Consumer Protection by P.A. 04-189).