The Board of Trustees hereby finds and declares
that the consumption of alcoholic beverages on public property, except
as hereinafter provided, tends to provoke or encourage loud, boisterous
and unruly conduct, to foster undesirable tumult and congestion, to
interfere with the lawful activities of others in the pursuit of business
and the enjoyment of leisure, to offend widely held notions of public
morality and to project an unfavorable image of community life, and
that such conduct is therefore inimical to the public welfare and
should be prohibited. The Board of Trustees further finds and declares
that the consumption of alcoholic beverages on public property at
events scheduled by the Board of Trustees, as hereinafter provided,
or by passengers aboard vehicles operated by certificated carriers
pursuant to § 1227 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, does
not tend to produce the undesirable results hereinabove mentioned
and should be excepted from the aforesaid prohibition.
For all purposes of this article, the following
terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this
section:
Includes alcohol, spirits, liquor, wine, beer, cider and
every liquid or solid, patented or not, containing alcohol, spirits,
wine or beer and capable of being consumed by a human being.
Includes all lands now or hereafter owned by the Village,
except those from time to time leased or rented to a private person,
and includes every road, street, sidewalk, path, passage, way, park,
playground and vehicular parking area which may lawfully be used by
the general public.
No person shall consume any alcoholic beverage
on any public property within the Village.
Section 34-3 shall not apply to the consumption of an alcoholic beverage on public property by an invited attendant at or a participant in an event scheduled by or permitted by resolution of the Board of Trustees if such consumption occurs in the course of such event and at the location designated by said Board.
Section 34-3 shall not apply to the consumption of an alcoholic beverage on public property by a passenger in a vehicle operated on the public highway by a certificated carrier as provided in § 1227 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law.
