🚀 go-pugleaf

Kelly Bert Manning wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, John Smith wrote:
> > How absurd.  Bartenders shouldn't be under any obligation to define and
> > enforce consumption limits on their customers.  They sell a fully legal
> > product to people who request it and can stop requesting it at any time.
> > The consequences of this exchange rest with the buyer.  End of story.
> >
> Where have you been living? It is illegal for a bartender to sell drinks
> to someone who is already drunk.
> 
> http://www.qp.gov.bc.ca/bcstats/96267_01.htm#section 43

Maybe he has not been living in BC.  The act you quote applies only to
BC, other jurisdictions do have similar but not identical acts.  As the
BC act is the one you are obviously more familiar with maybe you can
explain to someone in another jurisdiction exactly how section 43 of the
BC liquor control act makes a bartender who does sell liquor to an
intoxicated person (note the act does not mention the degree of
intoxication nor how it is to be determined) responsible for the
subsequent actions of that intoxicated person.  To make it easy for
everyone here is section 43.

Drunkenness

    43 (1) A person must not sell or give liquor to an intoxicated
person or a person
    apparently under the influence of liquor.

    (2) A licensee or the licensee's employee must not permit

        (a) a person to become intoxicated, or

        (b) an intoxicated person to remain in that part of a licensed
establishment where
        liquor is sold, served or otherwise supplied.

Carter