Collierville, TN Public Conduct: Public Alcohol Use (2026)

Section 116.12 of the Collierville Code of Ordinances, in the alcoholic beverages chapter adopted by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, bans public drinking by place. Division (A) makes it unlawful for any person to drink or consume, or have an open can, bottle or glass of intoxicating beverage, in or on any public street, alley, avenue, highway, sidewalk, public park, public school ground or public place. The only carve-out is a place that has a beer or liquor permit and license for on-premises consumption, such as a licensed restaurant or bar.

The text is built around three acts: drinking, consuming, and having an open can, bottle or glass. A person who is not drinking but is holding an open container in one of the listed places is covered by the same sentence. Division (B) sets the penalty: a fine of not more than $50, or imprisonment of not more than 30 days, or both fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court. That is a heavier ceiling than the Town's general penalty clause in § 10.99, which sets a fine of not more than $50 or the state maximum, whichever is greater, and a separate offense for each day.

The Town repeats the prohibition in Title XIII. Section 130.043, Drinking Beer in Public Places, prints a nearly identical ban, with a cross-reference to the § 10.99 penalty. Section 130.042 separately makes it unlawful to be drunk in a public place or in any other place open to public view, with penalties as prescribed by Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-310, as the Town code prints it. Section 116.09 keeps a licensee from selling or giving a beverage to a visibly intoxicated person.