D.C. pushes crackdown on underage alcohol sales

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D.C. officials are trying to crack down on businesses that sell alcohol to minors without even asking for the customer’s identification, but the move has drawn the ire of the city’s influential restaurant industry.

Under new guidelines the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Board hopes to implement, a first offense of failing to ask minors for proof of age would be classified as an “egregious” violation. Such an offense would prompt a mandatory fine of at least $2,000 and a possible suspension of a business’s license to sell alcohol.

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