Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 16. ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, AND MARIJUANA

CHAPTER 3. CONTROL OF LIQUOR, BEER, AND WINE

Part 3. Retail Sales Restrictions

Periodic Government Or Tribal-Issued Identification Data Destruction

16-3-313. Periodic government or tribal-issued identification data destruction. (1) A business that scans a person's government or tribal-issued identification to determine the person's age solely for the sale of age-restricted items:

(a) shall use data or metadata from the scan only to determine the person's age;

(b) may not transfer or sell that data or metadata to another party; and

(c) shall permanently delete any data or metadata from the scan within 180 days.

(2) Nothing in this section may be construed to limit the collection and preservation of information required by federal law for the sale of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine.

History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 264, L. 2021.