§ 11-4. Public possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages.

(a)

The definitions in M.S. § 340A.101 apply to this section. In this section:

Public property shall mean any public street, highway, school ground, playground, or other publicly owned property within the city except parks and lakes.

Semipublic property shall mean any parking lot operated incident to any commercial use of land, any auto service station, or any parochial or private school ground for which no special on-sale nonintoxicating malt liquor permit has been issued by the city.

(b)

No person shall have in his possession while on public property or while on semipublic property any bottle or receptacle which contains intoxicating liquor or nonintoxicating malt liquor which has been opened, or the seal broken, or the contents of which have been partially removed.

(c)

It shall be unlawful for any person to drink intoxicating liquor or 3.2 percent malt liquor on any public property or semipublic property. However, 3.2 percent malt liquor may be consumed at public parks.

(Ord. No. 57, § 5.02, 6-17-75; Ord. No. 57A, § 1, 9-20-76; Ord. No. 2H, § 7.19, 4-19-82; Ord. No. 372, § 8, 4-12-04)

Cross reference

Consumption of nonintoxicating malt liquor on-premises when sale prohibited, § 10-34; consumption of intoxicating liquor on licensed establishments after hours of sale, § 10-82; removal of open containers of intoxicating liquor from licensed establishments, § 10-85; alcoholic beverages in parks, § 14-62.