[PART V.]  CIVIL ACTION; INTOXICATION OF PERSONS

UNDER AGE TWENTY-ONE

 

     [§663-41]  Right of action.  (a)  Any person twenty-one years or older who:

     (1)  Sells, furnishes, or provides alcoholic beverages to a person under the age of twenty-one years; or

     (2)  Owns, occupies, or controls premises on which alcoholic beverages are consumed by any person under twenty-one years of age, and who knows of alcohol consumption by persons under twenty-one years of age on such premises, and who reasonably could have prohibited or prevented such alcohol consumption;

shall be liable for all injuries or damages caused by the intoxicated person under twenty-one years of age.

     (b)  This section shall not apply to sales licensed under chapter 281.

     (c)  An intoxicated person under the age of twenty-one years who causes an injury or damage shall have no right of action under this part. [L 2003, c 69, pt of §1]