Everett, WA Public Conduct: Public Alcohol Use (2026)

42 Liquor Offenses defines the rule and the exceptions together. 020 states: except as permitted by RCW Title 66 or ordinances of the city, no person shall open a package containing liquor or consume liquor in a public place, and a violation is an infraction punishable by a fine of $50, not including statutory assessments. 010(F) defines 'public place' expansively: streets and alleys, state or county highways, school buildings and grounds, public dance halls, the public portions of restaurants, theaters, stores, garages and filling stations open to unrestricted public access, railroad trains and other public conveyances and their depots and waiting rooms, publicly owned bathing beaches, parks and playgrounds, and any other place of like nature the public generally uses and can freely access.

030 makes it a misdemeanor to drink intoxicating liquor in a public conveyance (bus, train, taxi) outside a licensed compartment; for commercially chartered vehicles and licensed for-hire vehicles, only the driver can be charged. 045 separately bars a person who is apparently intoxicated from purchasing or consuming liquor on any premises licensed by the Washington State Liquor Control Board, a civil infraction punishable by up to $500, and specifies the defendant's own intoxication is not a defense. 075 similarly authorizes a standing city liquor permit for regular use of city property once the city council has approved that specific use.