How can you use a non-driving license form of ID for driving?????? And I'm almost 100% sure you can't use it for renting a car... And as I stated in my post, I noted the places that rarely, if ever, take out of state non-driving ID.
I don't think you read my comment very well. I said: "So it's still a valid form of ID for all other things-rental car, driving,
form of ID for other reasons like matching with your CC, etc)."....I mean really I guess you thought I was saying you can use a non-driver's license to rent a car...but I assure you I'm well aware a non-driver's license cannot be used to drive...however a non-driver's license can be used to match who you are with your CC.....and that was the part of my comment (see bold) and that is still the same in MA as it is in other places. The above comment more arose from the following comments:
A poster said: "A state ID is equal to a DL. They are literally the same thing, except one gives you permission to drive." You responded with: "Not in MA, not if it is from another state."..The above is where I was responded to that aspect.
ETA: I guess I should clarify and say that I was saying that an out of state driver's license can be used to rent a car and drive and a non-driver's license is still good as an ID just not to purchase alcohol unless the establisment has chosen to accept it. Your comment of "Not in MA, not if it is from another state." prompted me to comment about driving, renting a car, matching name on CC.
As I live in this state, and have attended many events, gone to dozens of restaurants, I am only stating what I have seen with my own eyes. Synchro Worlds was in Boston in 2013, and there were college kids from out of state who were not served with their IDs, people from around the world who needed to show passports for alcohol, and a bit of a to-do about it because a lot of people were very unhappy about the policy. Boston is a college city, and has some really strict policies. But I haven't been carded there in two decades, so someone who is 50 is not treated the same as someone who looks younger. You could be in the city with only an out of state ID and be in your 50s, they will serve you. But if you are younger and they ask for ID, and that's all you have? Nope.
Well I'll be darned as you live in the state you might want to tell the Boston Globe then that they got an article completely wrong from not even a month ago. In the article it says the following from one person: "Under current law, the safest course of action for a restaurant operator is to refuse service to any customer presenting out-of-state identification." As far as my comment regarding being treated the same it was aimed at Out of State DLs based on the rules regarding Out of State DLs not being acceptable forms of IDs to verify your age. We can go back and forth over 'safest course of action' aspect because we all know places don't always go with that in our day to day lives but still that's what I was basing my comment on.
I will say that I did read more in-depth into the Laws: "As of December 1, 2012, neither the state Liquor Control Act nor the regulations of the ABCC require identification to be checked as a condition to selling or delivering an alcoholic beverage to any person (except in the case of certain deliveries to consumers at their homes or offices). Each licensee is left to decide for itself what policy to establish on checking identification prior accepting orders for, selling and delivering alcoholic beverages.
Some licensees adopt a conservative policy, as they may legally do under the Liquor Control Act and the ABCC regulations, and
require proof of age from any person who appears to be younger than thirty years of age and accept as proof of age only the six pieces of identification that give a licensee a defense to any criminal conviction, civil liability and/or administrative prosecution." So in your own state if you appear to be younger than 30 years old and the establishment has decided to do so, as allowed by law, then you should be carded.
