Assembly awaits legal review on liquor ID ordinance VOTES DELAYED: Three proposals now offered on who, where cards required.

Due to incomplete legal research over a possible conflict with state law, the Anchorage Assembly postponed voting Tuesday night on proposals to make everyone show identification to buy alcohol from liquor stores and perhaps bars, too.
The proposals will be on the May 24 agenda.
But bar owners, neighborhood representatives and others still spoke out Tuesday in favor of and against various provisions.
Rosetta Dimiceli, owner of the Blue Fox, asked, "Am I going to have all my employees having breakdowns" from the threat of being fined for missing an identification check?
Stuart Grenier, vice president of the Northeast Community Council, said, "I hope this body goes as far as it can regarding carryout liquor stores."
If bars are causing a problem, they could be addressed later, Grenier said.
The current debate follows an advisory vote in the April city election on whether there should be mandatory identification checks to buy alcohol in a liquor store. The vote was 2-to-1 in favor.
Three versions of proposed laws are before the Assembly.
The two Assembly members who raised the matter, Dick Traini and Paul Honeman, originally proposed that mandatory ID checks apply to restaurants as well as bars and liquor stores.
They've replaced that version with one that would require mandatory ID checks in liquor stores beginning July 1, and in bars beginning July 1, 2013. Restaurants would be exempted.
A third version introduced by Assembly member Adam Trombley and chairwoman Debbie Ossiander on Tuesday would require checks in liquor stores only.
The preambles to all versions say the point of carding all comers is to deter under-age drinking and alcohol purchases by people who have red stripes on their drivers licenses or state identification. The stripe indicates they are under court order not to purchase alcohol.
Judges sometimes, but not always, require the red stripe as part of a sentence. In Anchorage, 486 licenses or state ID cards had the red stripes as of a couple of weeks ago, the state Division of Motor Vehicles reported. City attorney Dennis Wheeler said there's a question of whether state law that bans serving alcohol to minors and those court-ordered not to drink conflicts with the local proposal for mandatory checks in bars and liquor stores.