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CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) The Valley City Police Department held a responsible beverage server training class on January 21. 

29 people from a several local establishments in Valley City attended the training class.
The program is designed to increase the safety and well-being of bar/off-sale patrons and servers. 

Some of the topics covered in the training included:
·    Data and trends in North Dakota
·    ND laws regarding over serving and serving to minors and the sanctions that can be imposed
·    Civil liabilities
·    How to detect minors/mannerisms
·    False or altered IDs
·    Review the current acceptable IDs for North Dakota
·    Facial recognition techniques to identify individuals using someone else’s ID
·    How to detect individuals who have had too much to drink and determining when to stop serving
·    How to professionally stop serving individuals who have had too much to drink
·    Signs of alcohol poisoning
·    Dram shop laws
·    Power hour law
·    Local ordinances

Right now, the Valley City ordinance requires that all owner/managers must be server trained. It’s strongly encouraged that all bartenders and barmaids also take the training.

For more information regarding server training contact the Valley City Police Department at 701-845-3110 or City-County Health District at 701-845-8518.