{"data":{"id":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-60-3-22","jurisdiction":"us-wv","citation":"W. Va. Code § 60-3-22","heading":"Sales to certain persons prohibited.","body":"(a) Alcoholic liquors and nonintoxicating beer as defined in section three, article sixteen, chapter eleven of this code shall not be sold to a person who is:\n(1) Less than twenty-one years of age;\n(2) An habitual drunkard;\n(3) Intoxicated;\n(4) Addicted to the use of any controlled substance as defined by any of the provisions of chapter sixty-a of this code; or\n(5) Mentally incompetent.\n(b) It shall be a defense to a violation of subdivision (1), subsection (a) of this section if the seller shows that the purchaser:\n(1) Produced written evidence which showed his or her age to be at least the required age for purchase and which bore a physical description of the person named on the writing which reasonably described the purchaser; or\n(2) Produced evidence of other facts that reasonably indicated at the time of sale that the purchaser was at least the required age.","path":["CHAPTER 60. STATE CONTROL OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.","ARTICLE 3. SALES BY COMMISSIONER."],"source_url":"https://code.wvlegislature.gov/60-3-22/","current_through":"as of 2026-08-03; contains at least the enactments of the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T00:31:12Z","sha256":"35fb46d647ee43f37dc1208e77a55450f482cf3c15baf1b972399b4e21973bbc","source_id":"us-wv","stale":true,"prev":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-60-3-21","next":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-60-3-22a"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}