Torrance Municipal Code Art. 4 Drunkenness: Intoxication: Public Conduct

(Amended by O-281; O-564)

For the purpose of this Article:

a) Intoxicating liquor shall include beer, wine, distilled spirits or any other beverage containing one-half (1/2) of one (1) percent or more of alcohol by volume.

b) Public street shall mean any public street, alley, highway, sidewalk, curb, gutter, parkway or other public place used or dedicated for the transportation of person or vehicles.

c) Motor vehicle shall mean a vehicle that is self-propelled.

(Amended by O-3683)

a) It shall be unlawful for any person to consume any alcoholic beverage upon any public street, sidewalk, alley, pool area, airport, or in any public place, place open to the public, public building, public restroom, or public parking structure or lot, except where permitted by license from the State or pursuant to a temporary permit issued by the City. The provisions of this Section shall apply to any person whether on foot, in a vehicle, or otherwise.

b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to the City-owned Cultural Arts Center complex, buildings, and garden when a person is attending an event where a temporary permit has been issued by the City.

(Amended by O-1172)

It shall be unlawful for any person to be on any public street or at any place of assembly or in any place open to the public view in a drunken condition.

(Amended by O-1172)

It shall be unlawful for any person to be the occupant of a motor vehicle when such person is in a drunken condition.

(Added by O-1584; O-1585)

It is a misdemeanor and a public nuisance to expose or procure or to counsel or assist in the exposure of the breast or breasts of any living female for the purpose of public display, amusement, entertainment, or in connection with the sale or service of any commodity. For the purpose of this Section, bare female breasts shall include the exposure of the medial and lateral lower quadrants, or of the nipple or areola, or of any other portion of the lower half of said breasts. Each such display shall be considered a separate offense subject to separate criminal prosecution. The minimum penalty for each such offense shall be a Five Hundred Dollar ($500.00) fine or six (6) months in the County jail or both such fine and imprisonment.

(Added by O-35)

It shall be unlawful for any person to spit or expectorate upon any public sidewalk within the City or upon the floor, wall, ceiling, stairway or furnishings or fixtures of any public building, or of any building or room where persons are likely to assemble for any purpose, or of any store or other room or building commonly frequented by the public for business or pleasure.

(Added by O-2634)

a) No person shall urinate or defecate:

1. In a public place;

2. In a place open to the public or exposed to public view;

3. In a private place entered without consent of the owner, his agent, or the person in lawful possession thereof.

b) This Section shall not apply to urination or defecation in any fixture provided for such purposes in any bathroom, restroom, dressing room, or similar facility.

(Added by O-3187; O-3683)

a) It shall be unlawful for any person to possess 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, to 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 23000) of the Business and Professions Code, or on any public sidewalk immediately adjacent to the licensed and posted premises.

b) The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply to a private residential parking lot immediately adjacent to the posted premises.

c) Any person violating subsection (a) will be guilty of an infraction.

(Added by O-3188; O-3683)

Every person owning or operating a business licensed for the retail off-sale of packaged alcoholic beverages pursuant to Division 9 (commencing with Section 23000) of the Business and Professions Code shall post and maintain a sign not less than seventeen (17) inches by twenty-two (22) inches in size with lettering not less than one (1) inch in height visible to the patrons of such business, the adjacent parking lot, and to persons on the public sidewalk setting forth the prohibitions contained in Section 45.4.8 of this Article.