How big a deal is keg beer in Woodstock? We have a lot of liquor stores and only two of them (owned by the same businessman) sell beer by the keg.
Does Woodstock have a reputation as a keg town? Let's see; we don't have a college. We don't have parks in which visitors can drink beer. We don't have a football stadium for tailgate parties. We don't ...... (and on and on and on).
But the Woodstock City Council is considering, and is spending considerable legal fees to draft, a beer law that will require sellers to require a buyer to sign his life away on a keg document form. A tag will be affixed to the keg, and that tag better be there when the empty keg is returned.
The purchaser has to sign, acknowledging that beer will not be provided to under-age partiers. Well, there is already a law about that. It's called a State law.
Why is the City fooling around with this law?
If you think the City should not go further with this law, contact your City Council person immediately, because a new ordinance is on the agenda for tomorrow night!
Read Section 3 of the City Attorney's cover letter to the Mayor and the City Council, which accompanied the draft of the Ordinance.
"3. Purchasers of kegs will be required to sign form documents declaring that they understand no persons under the age of 21 years will not be served, which should encourage purchasers to monitor those participating in events for which the keg has been purchased."
The City bought either two or three unnecessary letters in this deal. Bottoms up, kids.
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3 months ago
3 comments:
Unless you screwed up in copying their ordinance details, they have a double negative in paragraph three that, in essence, requires the purchaser to serve persons under the age of twenty-one. LOL!
I've never bought a keg in Woodstock as far as I can remember.
Most of the time when I did, I kept it in the backseat of my rustbucket and just passed the hose around to my cronies while we cruised the neighborhoods for chicks. Nowadays, we cruise around looking for discarded beer cans and bottles so we can take'm to the recyclery for ca$h to buy more beer. DOH!
Sharp eyes, Mike. You got it exactly right.
That's exactly as it appeared in the cover letter with the proposed Ordinance.
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