Cocoa, FL Public Conduct: Public Alcohol Use (2026)

Section 4-5 makes it unlawful to drink or possess an open container of an alcoholic beverage on or upon any street, sidewalk or parking area open to the public in the ordinary course of business, and section 4-6 extends the same ban to any city-owned property, inside or outside the corporate limits. Section 4-7 lets the city manager issue a permit allowing drinking and open containers on a city street, sidewalk, parking area, or at facilities like the National Guard Armory or Cocoa Municipal Stadium, for social functions such as weddings, chamber of commerce events, civic league functions or public sporting events.

Section 4-8 separately targets vehicles, prohibiting anyone from possessing, having readily accessible, or transporting an open container in a motor vehicle on a highway within Cocoa, defining 'readily accessible' broadly enough to include a container within easy reach even if not physically held. That vehicle ban carries listed exceptions for paying passengers in a licensed bus, limousine or taxicab, containers in a locked glove box, trunk or other locked compartment, a sealed refrigerator in an RV's living quarters, licensed beverage sales staff acting within their job, clergy performing religious duties, on-duty law enforcement, and people picking up containers for deposit or litter control.