Explanation:
"Any person who has not reached his or her twenty-first (21st) birthday and who operates a motor vehicle on the public highways, except when accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, and knowingly having liquor or intoxicating beverages in any form in containers, opened or unopened, in any part of the vehicle, shall have his/her license suspended or his/her right to operate a motor vehicle denied for a period of not more than thirty (30) days by the administrator of the division of motor vehicles."