Berkeley, CA Public Conduct: Public Alcohol Use (2026)

070(A) makes it unlawful to drink any spirituous, malt, vinous, or other alcoholic beverage in a park, playground, or community house, in a car on a public street or alley, or on any public or private property that is open and accessible to the public or open to public view. Subsection B separately bans possessing an already-opened container that still has alcohol in it on City-owned property or in any recreation, regional park, or open space district within Berkeley. 44 events, and service at open-air restaurants and cafes when otherwise allowed by the Zoning Ordinance and state law.

075, targets the area right around off-sale liquor stores: no one may carry an opened, sealed-broken, or partially emptied container onto the posted premises, the adjacent posted parking lot, or the adjacent public sidewalk of a retail package off-sale licensee, and those licensees must post permanent signs warning patrons and passersby that carrying an open container there is against the law; an unposted licensee is itself guilty of an infraction.