Host Legislation

Suffolk County executive Steve Levy has signed into law social host legislation making it a crime to let under age children drink in their home.

The law imposes a $250 fine for the first offense and up to $1000 fine and a year in jail for a third offense for those who knowingly allow underage drinking. Children may consume alcohol if their parent or guardian is present.

Levy wrote a letter to Suffolk County legislators in which he said the penalties are meant to send a message that hosts have to be vigilant in monitoring the potential for underage drinking.

The law requires people who are homeowners, renters and those who control a private residence to stop people under the legal drinking age 21 from consuming alcohol on the premises. The adult is required to contact the police or a parent in such cases.

Suffolk now joins Nassau County in trying to regulate by statute underage drinking in the house. Both laws allow exceptions for religious purposes. Hopefully, underage drinking will become a thing of the past.

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