The modern world is replete with its permissiveness and opportunities for a good life. Young people from an early age feel that they can afford what not all adults can afford.
A frequent picture in stores selling alcohol is a teenager from 14 to 17 years old trying to buy what is forbidden to him. This is a big problem for society. Mostly affected parents. And if they are not able to protect the child from addiction, then trade workers are required to do this. Selling alcohol to minors (Article 151.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) is prohibited in the Russian Federation, is controlled by law and is considered criminally punishable.
What guides the state when it introduces such a ban and reinforces it with law?
The first reason for the ban
The harm of alcohol is obvious. It poisons the body of an adult, so the sale of alcohol to minors, whose body is just forming, entails fatal consequences. Ethanol destroys everything: the gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidneys, heart, brain. The adolescent body can not cope with such a load on vital organs, which can lead to death.
The second reason for the ban
The ban on the sale of alcohol to minors is justified by the inappropriate and antisocial behavior of adolescents intoxicated. According to statistics, most of the crimes and offenses related to drunkenness are committed by children from 12 to 17 years old. This proves that the children's body and psyche are unstable to the influence of alcohol, which prohibits its use by citizens under the age of 18.
Based on these two factors, back in Soviet times, the government decided that the sale of alcohol to minors is prohibited on the territory of the Soviet Union. In the future, this decision was consolidated legally and began to provide for punishment for violation (up to criminal liability).
Letter of the law
How does the law regulate the punishment for an act such as selling alcohol to minors? Article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation 151.1 states that a person who has committed this act more than once is subject to a fine in the amount of from fifty to eighty thousand rubles or in the amount of wages / other income for a period of three to six months. Repeatedly considered the commission of the same deed within one hundred eighty days. A convicted person may be sentenced to corrective labor for a term of one to three years and deprived of the right to occupy the post (or the type of activity closely related to it) in which the criminal act was committed, for a term of three years or indefinitely.
If the sale of alcohol to minors is carried out by an employee of an individual entrepreneur, then the director (as an official) can be fined from one hundred to two hundred thousand rubles. This situation arises when this individual is constantly selling alcohol to persons under the age of eighteen.
The organization, as a legal entity, receives a fine for the sale of alcohol to minors in the amount of three hundred to five hundred thousand rubles. That is, considering a company specializing in the sale of alcoholic beverages, we will see a similar situation: the seller / cashier who sold alcohol to a minor receives a fine in the amount of his salary, if he had already committed such an act. Its director (director of the company) receives a fine as an official and will pay in this case also from his salary. The company as a whole (legal entity) also receives a fine, which must be paid out of its own income.
Provocations
The sale of alcohol to minors is subject to mandatory monitoring by law enforcement agencies. Therefore, police officers often resort to provocation of employees on the subject of their competence. The police (or the company's security service) finds a child (14-17 years old) who agrees to participate in the inspection and sends him to the store. Then he makes a purchase of alcohol (or tries to make) and monitors the actions of staff.
Ideally, at the slightest doubt, the seller is obliged to ask the person for a passport in order to verify the age of the buyer, and then complete the sale or refuse it. So the seller will save from fines and litigation both himself and the senior management.
