Huntington Park Municipal Code Ch. 3 Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages

It shall be unlawful for any person to drink or offer to another for immediate consumption any alcoholic liquor or beverage upon any public street, sidewalk, lane, or alley within the City, or in any automobile, vehicle, or conveyance operated upon or parked upon any public street, sidewalk, lane, thoroughfare, or alley within the City, or to drink, possess, exhibit, or offer to another for immediate consumption any alcoholic liquor or beverage in or upon the grounds or buildings of any premises being used at the time as a stadium, theater, carnival, music hall, lecture hall, playing field, or similar place of public assemblage.

(§ III, Ord. 936, as amended by § 1, Ord. 392-NS, eff. December 12, 1985)

(a) No person who has in his or her possession any bottle, can or other receptacle containing any alcoholic beverage which has been opened, or a seal broken, or the contents of which have been partially removed, shall enter, be, or remain on the posted premises of, including the posted parking lot immediately adjacent to, any retail package off-sale alcoholic beverage licensee licensed pursuant to Division 9 (commencing with Section 2300) of the Business and Professions Code, or on any public sidewalk immediately adjacent to the licensed and posted premises. Any person violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of an infraction.

(b) As used in subsection (a), "posted premises" means those premises which are subject to licensure under any retail package off-sale alcoholic beverage license, the parking lot immediately adjacent to the licensed premises and any public sidewalk immediately adjacent to the licensed premises on which clearly visible notices indicate to the patrons of the licensee and parking lot and to persons on the public sidewalk, that the provisions of subsection (a) are applicable.

(c) All premises described in subsection (b) shall be posted in compliance with the stated posting requirements.

(d) The provisions of this section shall not apply to a private residential parking lot which is immediately adjacent to the posted premises.

(e) Any person violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of an infraction.

(§ 1, Ord. 609-NS, eff. Jan. 6, 1999)