[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Rhinebeck 12-12-1978 as L.L. No. 2-1978. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Parks and other public areas — See Ch. 78.
This chapter shall be known and cited as the
"Village of Rhinebeck Local Law No. 2-1978, Regulating Consumption
of Alcoholic Beverages in Public Places."
The Village of Rhinebeck recognizes that consumption
of alcoholic beverages in public places must be adequately controlled
so as to prevent public disorder, nuisances, littering, vandalism
and other acts and conditions detrimental to the health, safety and
welfare of the residents of the Village, and this chapter is intended
to provide such control and regulation.
As used herein, the following words shall have
the meanings below set forth:
Includes all beverages as defined in § 3 of the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law of the State of New York.
Any bottle, can, glass, cup or similar receptacle suitable
for or used to hold any liquid.
Includes a fair, picnic, block party and church, civic, fraternal
and Fire Department affair, or other community or public gathering
in any public place.
Any highway, street, sidewalk, park, playground, parking
lot, shopping center, mall or any other place to which the public
or a substantial group of persons has access, including a public parking
lot or driveway for one or more vehicles used by patrons of any commercial,
industrial, professional or eleemosynary place of business, but excluding
those public places wherein the use and consumption of alcoholic beverages
is authorized pursuant to a license or permit issued under the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Law.
[Amended 11-10-1987 by L.L. No. 2-1987]
No person shall consume or possess, carry or
transport with the intent to consume any liquor, wine or other alcoholic
beverage in any open container in any public place in the Village
of Rhinebeck.
This chapter shall not apply to any event, as
above defined, for which a special permit shall have been issued by
the Village Board pursuant to such regulations as it may deem proper
to establish.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Section 6, Presumption,
which immediately followed this section, was deleted 11-10-1987 by
L.L. No. 2-1987.
A violation of this chapter shall constitute
an offense punishable by a fine not to exceed $250 or by imprisonment
for a term not to exceed 15 days, or both. Each such violation shall
constitute a separate violation.
