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(7) Host means to permit, aid, conduct, sponsor, organize, control, tolerate, or allow an event or gathering. (8) Event or gathering means any group of three (3) or more persons who have assembled or gathered together for a social occasion or other activity. An event or gathering shall not include assemblies or gatherings occurring on the licensed property of a retail intoxicating liquor or three and two - tenths (3.2) percent malt liquor licensee, municipal liquor store, or bottle club permit holder who is regulated by Minn. Stat. § 340A.503. (9) Residence or premises means any home, yard, field, land, apartment, condominium, hotel or motel room, or other dwelling unit, or a hall or meeting room, park or any other place of assembly, public or private, whether occupied on a temporary or permanent basis, whether occupied as a dwelling or specifically for a party or other social function, and whether owned, leased, rented, or used with or without permission or compensation. (C) Prohibited acts. (1) It is unlawful for any person(s) to: (a) Host an event or gathering; (b) At any residence, premises, or on any other private or public property; (c) Where alcohol or alcoholic beverages are present; (e) Where an underage person consumes an alcoholic beverage, or possesses an alcoholic beverage with the intent to consume it, at the gathering, and (d) Fails to take reasonable steps to prevent the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages by an underage person.* See Alternative Text re: "reasonable steps, " below. (2) It is a violation of section (c) if the person intentionally aids, advises, hires, counsels, or conspires with another or otherwise procures another to commit the prohibited act. (3) A person who hosts an event or gathering does not have to be present at the event or gathering to be criminally responsible for a violation of section (c). 2