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12/20/99 Interoffice Memo 171 .171 Section (1) states the Commissioner shall suspend for 90 days the license of a person under 21 if that person uses a driver's license or identification card to purchase or attempt to purchase an alcoholic beverage. Section (2) states the Commissioner shall suspend for 90 days the license of a person who lends or knowingly permits the use of that person's driver's license or identification card to purchase or attempt to purchase an alcoholic beverage. 171.22 states it is unlawful to display or possess any fictitious or fraudulently altered driver's license or ldentification card; to lend a driver's license or Identification card to another; to display or represent as one's own any driver's license or identification card not issued to that person: and, to alter any driver's license or identification card card. The laws are clear and many. History In the fall of 1999, at the request of a liquor license holder, the Police Department drafted proposed changes to the liquor license ordinance. During Council presentations, questions were raised regarding the amount of police enforcement aimed at underage purchasers. Some alcoholic beverage servers said they had confiscated numerous false identification cards but police records showed those establishments had rarely called police for reports and enforcement. Roseville Police records showed 70 reports regarding underage consumers in 1999, 43 reports in 1998, 35 reports in 1997 and 37 reports in 1996. These reports included actions taken against those under 18 years old and those under 21 to 18 years old. Almost all those reports were initiated by the police or by citizens reporting suspected drinking parties without involvement by licensed liquor sales establishments. Current Information Roseville Police contacted nine alcoholic beverage sales establishments and asks how often, per year, they confiscated driver's licenses or ldentification cards. The estimates ranged from one (1) to eighty (80). The high-end total would be 200 for the stores contacted. One of the stores contacted was across our border, MGM at Larpenteur and Lexington (they stated about 20 confiscations per year). An average of the nine establishments would yield about 23 confiscations per establishment per year. Multiply that average of 23 by the 39 Roseville licensed liquor sales establishments and we reach 897 confiscations per year.