Criminal offenses – Penalties – Perjury – Expunction of records – Enforcement of law – Violations by and relating to minors

(a) (i) Seven hundred (700) or more, according to the 2010 federal census or a subsequent federal census. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105(1) Except as otherwise provided, a violation of this chapter is a Class A misdemeanor. (2) If any person shall, or shall attempt to, forge or counterfeit, or cause or permit to be forged or counterfeited, any stamp, die, plate, official signature, certificate, evidence of tax payment, license, or other instrument which has been provided or may be hereafter provided, made or used in the pursuance of the execution of this chapter as aforementioned, upon any paper or other material, or shall stamp or mark, or cause to be stamped or marked, any paper, or other material by such forged or counterfeited stamp, die, plate, official signature, certificate, evidence of tax payment, license or other instrument as aforementioned, or shall forge the name or signature of any officer, commissioner, deputy officer, or employee under this chapter or under the rules and the regulations of the commission, or cause the same to be done, or forge or counterfeit, or cause or permit to be forged or counterfeited, any evidence of the payment of any tax provided for in this chapter, with intent to defraud the state of any of the taxes imposed by this chapter, or any provision thereof, or shall in any otherwise, by imitating, restoring, altering, or reusing any stamp or other written evidence of the payment of such taxes knowingly defraud or attempt to defraud the state, or have or retain in such person’s possession any of such stamps which are forged or counterfeited, or any such evidence of such payment, or any stamp which has been altered, restored or counterfeited with intent to defraud the state, such person shall be punished for criminal conspiracy. (3) (A) It is unlawful for any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years to have in such person’s possession or to consume any intoxicating liquor or beer for any purpose, whether the same be possessed or consumed in a dry county or a wet county. It is unlawful for any person under twenty-one (21) years of age to transport any intoxicating liquor or beer for any purpose, whether the same be transported in a dry or wet county; provided, that this section shall not be construed as prohibiting any person eighteen (18) years of age or older from transporting, possessing, selling or dispensing intoxicating liquor or beer in the course of such person’s employment. For purposes of this subdivision (a)(3), “beer” shall have the same meaning as provided in § 57-6-102. (B) A violation of subdivision (a)(3)(A) is a Class A misdemeanor. (C) Any person under twenty-one (21) years of age found to have violated this subdivision (a)(3) shall, regardless of the final disposition of such violation, have the right to have the records, as defined in § 40-32-101, of such violation destroyed after the passage of six (6) months from the date of the violation. Such destruction shall occur upon motion of the person to the court which heard the violation and shall be without cost to such person. No violation of this subdivision (a)(3) may at any time be used against the violator in any criminal proceeding. (4) Any person who purchases an alcoholic beverage for or at the request of a person under twenty-one (21) years of age commits a misdemeanor and, upon conviction for such person’s first such offense, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), plus all penalties imposed by § 39-15-404. Upon a person’s second or subsequent conviction for such offense, such person shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), plus all penalties imposed by § 39-15-404. (5) (A) It is unlawful for any person who is younger than twenty-one (21) years of age to purchase or attempt to purchase any alcoholic beverage. (B) A violation of this subdivision (a)(5) is a Class A misdemeanor. (C) (i) In addition to any criminal penalty established by this section, a court in which a person younger than twenty-one (21) years of age but eighteen (18) years of age or older is convicted of the purchase or attempt to purchase or possession of alcoholic beverages in violation of this section shall prepare and send to the department of safety, driver control division, within five (5) working days of the conviction, an order of denial of driving privileges for the offender. (ii) The court an