Legal to verify identity using only a specific form of ID?
<p>A liquor store verifies shoppers’ age through state-issued driver licenses. It won’t accept, for example, passports.  Legal?</p>

<p>As far as I know, in the US it is not anywhere illegal to refuse to sell alcohol to a person, except when it falls into a enumerated category of prohibited discrimination (e.g. based on sex, religion, race etc). The ID requirement is a "defense" usable by the seller against consequences for accidentally selling to a minor: if they presented acceptable ID, you will not be prosecuted / fined for an underage sale. In Washington, a passport is one of the accepted forms of ID under <a href="http://apps.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=314-11-025" rel="nofollow noreferrer">WAC 314-11-025</a>; it also accepted in <a href="http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC&amp;sectionNum=25660." rel="nofollow noreferrer">California</a>, idem <a href="http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4301.639" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ohio</a>, <a href="https://www.flrules.org/gateway/RuleNo.asp?ID=61A-3.052" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Florida</a> and <a href="https://law.justia.com/codes/wyoming/2010/Title12/chapter6.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wyoming</a>. Without a law compelling an alcohol vendor to sell their goods to any of-age person with money, it is legal to decline to sell on any grounds other that demographic discrimination.</p>

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