SENATE DOCKET, NO. 726        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1775

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to impose civil liability on persons who provide alcohol to minors..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  Section 34 of Chapter 138 of the General laws, as it appears in the 2000 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following new paragraph:-

Any person who violates this section shall be liable in tort for injuries or death caused to any person as a result of the operation by a person under the age of twenty-one who is under the influence of alcohol.