Duluth, MN Public Conduct: Public Alcohol Use (2026)

Duluth Legislative Code Section 8-22(a) makes it unlawful for anyone owning, managing or controlling a public place to serve or allow alcoholic beverages to be served there unless the place holds an on-sale or temporary on-sale liquor license, and subsection (b) bars mixing, preparing, serving or consuming alcohol in any public place other than a licensed hotel, club or restaurant, though the chief administrative officer can permit alcohol at a special event or convention function by permit and conditions. Subsection (c) limits drinking on a licensed premises to liquor actually served by the licensee or its employee, and subsections (d) and (e) bar a licensee or a patron from leaving licensed premises with any drink or open container, with a narrow carve-out in subsection (f) for a restaurant patron who buys a full bottle of wine with a meal and may leave with the bottle once it has been opened and partly consumed.

2 percent malt liquor, or one with a broken seal, unless an alcohol consumption permit has been issued for that area under Section 35-9(a)(4), an on-sale license covers the area under Chapter 8, or the container sits inside a second, non-paper, non-cardboard container of at least one cubic foot that is securely closed and carried so the alcohol cannot be reached or consumed publicly.