Attorney General's Opinion Letter No. 105-2007
Topics:
Initiative petition.
Initiatives.
Summary conclusion
Review and approval of legal content and form of a summary statement prepared pursuant to Section 116.334, RSMo 2000, regarding an initiative petition (third submittal) to amend Chapter 311, RSMo, to change the legal age for the sale, purchase, and possession of alcohol to 18 years.
Contents of letter
June 12, 2007
Honorable Robin Carnahan
Missouri Secretary of State
James C. Kirkpatrick State Information Center
600 West Main Street
Jefferson City, MO 65101
Dear Secretary Carnahan:
This office received your letter of June 7, 2007, submitting a summary statement prepared under Section 116.334, RSMo, for an initiative petition, submitted by Michael Mikkelsen (third submittal), to amend Chapter 311, RSMo. The summary statement you submitted is as follows:
Shall Missouri law be amended to:
- lower the legal age to manufacture, sell, dispense, supply, purchase, possess and consume alcohol from twenty-one years of age to eighteen years of age; and
- revise related criminal penalties consistent with the lower legal age?
Pursuant to Section 116.334, we approve the legal content and form of the proposed statement. Because our review of the statement is mandated by statute, no action that we take with respect to such review should be construed as an endorsement of the resolution, nor as the expression of any view regarding the objectives of its proponents.
Very truly yours,
JEREMIAH W. (JAY) NIXON
Attorney General