Lakewood Municipal Code Ch. 5 Alcoholic Beverages

[Amended by Ord. 84-5; Ord. 85-3; Ord. 88-19; Ord. 2005-2]

No person shall drink any malt, spirituous or vinous liquor containing more than one-half of one percent of alcohol by volume in any "public place", defined as: In the public way or any other location open to the public, whether publicly or privately owned, including but not limited to any street, sidewalk, avenue, highway, road, curb area, alley, park, playground or other public ground or public building; in any common area of a school, hospital, apartment house, office building, transport facility, shop, privately-owned place of business to which the public is invited, including any place of amusement, entertainment or eating place; in the unenclosed ground-level private yard, driveway, walkway, portion of outside steps, where no permanent physical barrier exists to fully restrict access to that area of any private residence, business or apartment house.

It shall be unlawful for any intoxicated person, or any person in an intoxicated condition, wilfully to appear, remain or be in or on any public highway, street, alleyway, park, playground or public place in the City, whether such person is or is not in or upon any automobile, street or interurban car, vehicle or conveyance.

An intoxicated person in an intoxicated condition shall not wilfully appear, remain, or be in or on any private premises or in any private house to the annoyance of any other person.

No person shall consume any alcoholic beverage on the grounds of any public school or any stadium or athletic field while being used by a public school.

No person shall enter or remain in a vehicle while any other occupant is consuming any alcoholic beverage while such vehicle is on a public street, alleyway, or public highway.

No person shall lie and sleep on any of the sidewalks, streets, or other public places within the City, or appear therein in such a state of intoxication or drunkenness as to be unable to take proper care of himself, or disturb the peace or quiet of any person, family or neighborhood, by drunkenness or by making loud and unusual noises, or by violent or offensive language, or by boisterous, tumultuous or offensive conduct, or by the threatening, traducing, quarreling, fighting or offering or challenging to fight, or any other way or manner whatever shall disturb the peace, quiet and decency of any person, street or neighborhood.

[Added by Ord. 2005-2]

No person shall have in his or her possession any bottle, can or other receptacle containing any alcoholic beverage as described in this Chapter, which has been opened, or a seal broken, or the contents of which have been partially removed, in the public way or any other location open to the public, whether publicly or privately owned, including but not limited to any street, sidewalk, avenue, highway, road, curb area, alley, park, playground or other public ground or public building; in any common area of a school, hospital, apartment house, office building, transport facility, shop, privately-owned place of business to which the public is invited, including any place of amusement, entertainment or eating place.

[Added by Ord. 2005-2]

The provisions of this Chapter shall not apply to: The possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages where authorized by written permit of the Director of Recreation and Community Services; or where said alcoholic beverages are possessed, sold and consumed within the Civic Center Facility or at the Weingart Center pursuant to a valid on-sale license issued by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.