Salt Lake City » Scanning grandpa's driver license, requiring $4 cover charges and banning bars from any area where children might live.

The Utah chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving advocated for those changes and more as lawmakers debated "normalizing" the state's notoriously quirky liquor laws earlier this month so that customers wouldn't have to fill out an application and pay a fee for the right to enter a bar.

But an Associated Press review of national MADD policies shows nearly every proposal on a list of the Utah chapter's "must haves" for the liquor law overhaul are not endorsed by the national MADD organization and never should have had MADD's name attached to them.

"We understand that Utah has a somewhat different culture and political environment on alcohol, and we're not trying to dictate one way or the other to Utah on what steps it should it take, but we are limited to what our board has adopted as MADD policy," Chuck Hurley, MADD's national executive director, told the AP in a phone interview from his office in Irving, Texas.

"We try to give some reasonable flexibility, but on matters of key issues, obviously, anything that would portray MADD inaccurately as a prohibitionist organization we have to be pretty clear on and we have to speak with one voice."

Positions the Utah chapter took that are not endorsed by the national MADD organization include:

-- Keeping a record of everyone who enters a bar.

-- Mandating surveillance video and requiring bars to keep tapes for 180 days.

-- Keeping hotel bars out of public view in lobbies.

-- Banning bars from restaurants.

-- Selling beer, wine and liquor in state liquor stores only at room temperature.

Each was laid out in a position paper MADD's Utah chapter circulated to lawmakers during the legislative session that ended March 12 as the only way to change the state's unique liquor laws without endangering public safety.

On Monday, Gov. Jon Huntsman will sign a bill into law eliminating the requirement that makes bars private clubs. It also eliminates a partition known as a "Zion Curtain" that separates bartenders from customers in restaurants, which keeps bartenders from serving cocktails directly over bar counters.

The bill Huntsman will sign into law was only approved by lawmakers after MADD's Utah chapter agreed to not publicly oppose it and it won several concessions. Those concessions include requiring new restaurants to mix cocktails out of public view in an effort to keep children from being tempted to take up drinking. Bars also will be required to scan the ID of anyone who appears younger than 35 -- up from the age of 30 that was originally proposed.

Neither is a policy endorsed by MADD.

Hurley sent chapter president Art Brown an e-mail on March 10 reminding him that local chapters must adhere to national policies. The e-mail followed an AP article that mentioned Brown suggested electronically tracking all bar customers, not just those who appear younger than 35.

"There needs to be an audit trail for public safety," Brown said at the time.

Hurley provided a copy of his e-mail to Brown to the AP.

"As you know, we do not have any MADD policy that calls for electronic tracking of bar patrons," Hurley wrote. "It is important that all state affiliates reflect official MADD policy."

A message left at MADD's Utah chapter headquarters was not immediately returned.

Utah's private club system and the Zion Curtain as they're known today came into existence in 1969 primarily as a way to let people have a drink without exposing the state's heavily Mormon population to alcohol.

About 60 percent of the state's population and more than 80 percent of lawmakers today are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which tells its members to abstain from alcohol.

Subsequent law changes and federal court rulings have rendered meaningless much of the intent to keep drinking a private activity, but many teetotaling lawmakers and MADD's Utah chapter continued to support the private club system.

Jaynie Brown, wife of Art Brown and a frequent figure at the state Capitol, has repeatedly said that bar memberships -- with fees ranging from $4 to $12 -- are needed to discourage people from going to more than one bar per day and to track everyone who goes into a bar. A separate membership currently is required for every bar in Utah.

"The lack of membership records and the lack of a cover charge is a very big problem," she testified before lawmakers Feb. 23 in opposition to a bill eliminating private clubs. "Because it doesn't require that, it encourages bar hopping."

MADD's national policy does not mention limiting the number of bars customers should be allowed to visit. MADD only advocates that states have uniform times for last call in order to end the practice of bar hopping to find establishments with later closing hours.

In Utah, all bars must stop serving alcohol at 1 a.m.

Hurley said many in the liquor industry would love to paint MADD as a prohibitionist organization so the public won't take it seriously.

For Utah's MADD chapter, the damage was already done. MADD was lampooned in blogs and in reader comments on newspaper and TV stories throughout the legislative session for wanting to bring prohibition back.

"They're not anti-DUI, they're anti-liquor. They're anti-drinking. They're against the culture of drinking -- of all aspects of it," a frustrated Dave Morris, owner of the Salt Lake City bar Piper Down, said in a February interview with the AP about MADD. "They will not be happy until alcohol is completely gone."

It's a label that the national organization has worked hard to distance itself from in the past decade.

In the 1990s, MADD founder Candace Lightner became critical of MADD for taking positions on reducing alcohol consumption that she said strayed from the organization's mission. Since then, she said MADD is back on track putting the focus on stopping drinking and driving, not drinking in and of itself.

She laughed out loud when told of some of the positions taken by Art Brown.

"This is not at all in line with MADD's philosophy," said Lightner, who says she and most of the people she know occasionally drink. "His heart is in the right place and at least he's active in doing something, but I'm not sure this is the best way to go about it."