West Virginia § 60-3-22 Sales to certain persons prohibited

West Virginia Statutes

§ 60-3-22 — Sales to certain persons prohibited

West Virginia § 60-3-22

Ch. 60STATE CONTROL OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS

Art. 3SALES BY COMMISSIONER

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W. Va. Code § 60-3-22 (2026).

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(a)Alcoholic liquors and nonintoxicating beer as defined in section three, article sixteen, chapter eleven of this code shall not be sold to a person who is:

(1)Less than twenty-one years of age;

(2)An habitual drunkard;

(3)Intoxicated;

(4)Addicted to the use of any controlled substance as defined by any of the provisions of chapter sixty-a of this code; or

(5)Mentally incompetent.

(b)It shall be a defense to a violation of subdivision (1), subsection (a) of this section if the seller shows that the purchaser:

(1)Produced written evidence which showed his or her age to be at least the required age for purchase and which bore a physical description of the person named on the writing which reasonably described the purchaser; or

(2)Produced evidence of other facts that reason

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(a) Alcoholic liquors and nonintoxicating beer as defined in section three, article sixteen, chapter eleven of this code shall not be sold to a person who is:

(1) Less than twenty-one years of age;

(2) An habitual drunkard;

(3) Intoxicated;

(4) Addicted to the use of any controlled substance as defined by any of the provisions of chapter sixty-a of this code; or

(5) Mentally incompetent.

(b) It shall be a defense to a violation of subdivision (1), subsection (a) of this section if the seller shows that the purchaser:

(1) Produced written evidence which showed his or her age to be at least the required age for purchase and which bore a physical description of the person named on the writing which reasonably described the purchaser; or

(2) Produced evidence of other facts that reasonably indicated at the time of sale that the purchaser was at least the required age.