[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Whitesboro as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
[Adopted 5-24-1979 by L.L. No. 2-1979 (Ch. 36 of the 1986
Code)]
It is the intent of the Village of Whitesboro, Oneida County,
New York, as an exercise of its police power, to promote the general
health, safety and welfare of the residents of the Village by enacting
this article to limit and control the use and possession of open containers
containing alcoholic beverages and the disposal of beverage containers
on or in public lands of the Village and to prevent public disorder
and littering.
For the purpose of this article, the following shall have the
meanings herein ascribed to them; all other words shall have the meanings
normally ascribed to them in regular use:
Includes beer, wine and liquor and all other alcoholic beverages
as more specifically defined by the New York State Alcoholic Beverage
Control Law.
Any bottle, can, glass or other receptacle suitable for or
used to hold any liquid.
Includes any of the following:
[Added 12-8-1986 by L.L. No. 1-1986]
Any highway, street, park, public sidewalk, cemetery, playground,
public parking area, public school ground or other public place of
any nature within the limits of the Village.
The Village of Whitesboro.
[Added 12-8-1986 by L.L. No. 1-1986]
No person shall carry, transport or have in his or her possession
any open container of an alcoholic beverage on or in any public land
in the Village with intent to consume said alcoholic beverage on public
land in the Village.
No person shall place, deposit, leave, abandon, break, smash
or destroy any container in, on or upon any public land within the
limits of the Village except in a waste receptacle placed on said
public land for the purpose of depositing or discarding therein waste
material.[1]
Any open container containing an alcoholic beverage found in
or on any vehicle on the public land of the Village shall constitute
presumptive evidence that the same is in the possession of the owner
and/or driver and of the occupants of said vehicle and in violation
of this article.
So much of the foregoing provisions hereof as prohibit the carrying,
transporting or possession of alcoholic beverages in an open container
shall not apply to a specific alcoholic beverage in the case of a
public event or gathering at which special permission has been granted
by the Village for the purveying or dispensing and consumption of
that specified alcoholic beverage.
