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Show Beer-selling ordinance amended by NSL Council By JUDY JENSEN NORTH SALT LAKE In an unanimous vote members of the city council agreed to amend the city's present ordinance to allow employees 18-y ears-old or older to sell beer. The existing ordinance required an adult employee em-ployee be present before a minor could sell beer. The action came after managers of the Top Stop convenience store in North Salt Lake asked the council to change the requirement. Dale Prows representing Top Stop attended the Tuesday night city council meeting to hear the council's discussion. North Salt Lake Police Chief Val Wilson told the council he had conducted a study of some 'of the surrounding communities and none of them had minimum age requirements for sellers sel-lers of beer. He recommended that if the coun cil felt there should be a change that the new age requirement should not be younger than 18. When Top Stop officials first approached the council at an earlier meeting they had asked that 16-year-olds be allowed to sell beer unsupervised. unsu-pervised. Chief Wilson told the council that he felt that anyone younger than 18 had a good chance of "being bullied into selling beer to minors." When they requested the change originally, Top Stop representatives told the council they could not find long term employees over the age of 21 and that they needed to be able to tap the 16-year-old market for employees. Before the vote was taken Councilman Car-lin Car-lin Jacobsen asked Prows if changing the age to 18 would help them. "Yes, considerably," he said. He told the council that Top Stop had recently completed a company-wide survey and they had found the majority of their employees em-ployees were 18-y ears-old and older. |
