Definitions for underage drinking rules

Whenever used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: "Chief" means the chief of police or the chief's designee. "Gathering" means a group of two or more persons at or on a residence or other private property. "Intoxicating liquor" includes alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum, gin, okolehao, sake, beer, ale, porter, and wine; and includes any spirituous, vinous, malt or fermented liquor, liquids, and compounds, whether medicated, proprietary, patented, or not, in whatever form and of whatever constituency and by whatever name called, containing one-half of 1 percent or more of alcohol by volume, which are fit for use or may be used or readily converted for use for beverage purposes. "Minor" means any person under eighteen years of age. "Underage person" means any person under twenty-one years of age. "Property owner" means the person owning the fee title or the person in whose name the legal title to the property appears by deed duly recorded in the office of the bureau of conveyances, or assistant registrar of the land court, or tax office of the County, and the person in possession of the property or building under claim of or exercising actions of ownership over the same for the person or as the executor, administrator, trustee, or guardian of the property. "Residence or other private property" means a home, yard, apartment, condominium, hotel or motel room, or other dwelling unit, whether occupied on a temporary or permanent basis, whether occupied as a dwelling, and whether owned, leased, rented, or used with or without compensation. "Response costs" mean the costs associated with response by police, fire, and other emergency response providers to a gathering where an underage person possesses or consumes intoxicating liquor, such as: salaries and benefits of law enforcement, fire, or other emergency response personnel for the amount of time spent responding to, remaining at, or otherwise dealing with such a gathering, and the administrative costs attributable to the response; the cost of any medical treatment to or for any law enforcement, fire, or other emergency response personnel injured responding to, remaining at, or leaving the scene of such a gathering; the cost of repairing any County equipment or property damaged; and the cost of the use of any County equipment, in responding to, remaining at, or leaving the scene of such a gathering. "Responsible person" means a person with a right of possession to the residence or other private property on which a gathering occurs, such as a property owner, tenant, or lessee, who conducts, aids, allows, permits, or facilitates a gathering. ( Ord. No. 5174 § 2, 2021; eff. 9-1-2021)