Lomita Municipal Code Ch. 3 Alcoholic Beverages

No person shall drink any malt, spirituous or vinous liquor containing more than one-half of one (0.5) percent of alcohol by volume upon any public street, alleyway, sidewalk or parkway, or in any public buildings, public lavatories, auto park, or lobby or entrance way to any building within the city.

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

It shall be unlawful for any intoxicated person, or any person in an intoxicated condition, willfully to appear, remain or be in any place open to public view or in any store, railway depot, stadium, or other place to which the public is admitted or invited, or in or on any private premises or in any private house to the annoyance of any other person.

No person shall serve setups between 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m., if they are to be used with distilled spirits.

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 in any other way or manner whatever disturb the peace, quiet and decency of any person, street or neighborhood.

Every person who goes upon or remains upon any part of a public highway while he is consuming any alcoholic beverage is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Every person who enters or remains in any vehicle while such vehicle is on any part of any public highway when such person or any other occupant of such vehicle is consuming any alcoholic beverage is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(A) Alcoholic beverages shall be prohibited on the following premises:

(1) Any property owned or leased by the City of Lomita;

(2) Parks belonging to or within the control of the City of Lomita, and any other property occupied for public purposes by the city or any of its departments.

(B) Notwithstanding the general prohibition in paragraph (A), the city council may authorize the sale, consumption, or possession of alcoholic beverages at city-sponsored functions or functions sponsored by private organizations located within the city where the main purpose of the function, as determined by the city council, is the promotion or betterment of the City of Lomita.

(Ord. No. 419, § 1, 7-6-87; Ord. No. 835U, § 2, 6-7-22; Ord. No. 836, § 2, 6-21-22)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 835U, § 3, adopted June 7, 2022, and Ord. No. 836, § 3, adopted June 21, 2022, repealed § 4-3.11 which pertained to alcoholic beverage on city premises and derived from Ord. No. 419, § 2, adopted July 6, 1987.