Buying a keg of beer in Schaumburg will get more complicated under a proposed ordinance designed to help police identify adults who supply beer to underage drinkers.
The village’s Public Safety Committee endorsed a proposal last week requiring kegs be affixed with tags identifying the buyer and requiring a $70 deposit for a keg and a pump or a $20 deposit for only a keg. The seller could keep the deposit if the buyer fails to return the keg with the tag still attached.
Committee Chairman George Dunham said tags give law enforcement another way to crack down on adults supplying minors with alcohol, although kegs have not presented a major problem.
Wilmette, Northbrook and Buffalo Grove enacted similar ordinances last year, but have not prosecuted anyone.
Along with the keg plan, trustees proposed clarifying the wording of existing liquor laws to make parents responsible for underage drinking if they “knowingly or willfully” allow minors to drive under the influence or drink on the adults’ property.
