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Title 9 — Public Peace, Morals and Welfare›Part III — OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC DECENCY

Lake Elsinore Municipal Code § 9.28.010 Alcoholic beverage defined

Lake Elsinore Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Lake Elsinore

Cite as: Lake Elsinore Municipal Code § 9.28.010 · Text as of 2026-10-04

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For statutory provisions forbidding the drinking of any alcoholic beverage in a motor vehicle on any highway, see Vehicle Code § 23121.

§ 9.28.010. Alcoholic beverage defined.

"Alcoholic beverage,"

when used in this chapter, means and includes alcohol, spirits, liquor, wine, or beer, which contains one-half of one percent or more of alcohol by volume, and which is fit for beverage purposes, either alone or when diluted, mixed or combined with other substances.

(Ord. 378 § 8, 1958)

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§ 9.28.020. Drinking in public.

It is unlawful for any person or persons to drink or consume or attempt to drink or consume any alcoholic beverages while such person or persons are in or upon any public park, street, alley, highway, or other public place, except in or upon those public places where the drinking or consuming of alcoholic beverages is expressly permitted by law.

(Ord. 378 § 1, 1958)

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§ 9.28.030. Furnishing alcoholic beverages in public.

It is unlawful for any person or persons, while in or upon any public park, alley, street, highway, or other public place, within the corporate limits of the City, except in or upon those public places where the drinking or consuming of alcoholic beverages is expressly permitted by law, to offer or furnish or give, or cause to be offered or furnished or given, any alcoholic beverages to any other person or persons with the intention that such other person or persons shall drink or consume said alcoholic beverages while such other person or persons are in or upon any public park, street, alley, highway, or other public place within the corporate limits of the City, except in or upon those public places where the drinking or consumption of alcoholic beverages is expressly permitted by law or by express permission of the City Council.

(Ord. 378 § 2, 1958; Ord. 713 §§ 1, 2, 1984)

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§ 9.28.040. Displaying alcoholic beverages.

It is unlawful for any person or persons to exhibit or display in an indecent or offensive manner any alcoholic beverages while such person or persons are upon or in or over any public park, alley, street, highway or other public place, except those public places wherein or whereat the drinking and consuming of alcohol is expressly permitted by law.

(Ord. 378 § 4, 1958)

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§ 9.28.050. Violation – Detrimental to community.

The violation of any of the provisions of LEMC § 9.28.020 through § 9.28.040 constitutes a menace to the safety of the general public, is injurious to health, indecent, offensive to the senses, and an obstruction to the use of public property so as to interfere with the comfort and enjoyment of such public property by the entire community.

(Ord. 378 § 5, 1958)

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