Flagler County, FL Public Conduct: Public Alcohol Use (2026)

Sec. 21-61 of the Flagler County Code, adopted by Ord. No. 03-12, Section 11, on August 18, 2003, provides that alcohol and beverage sales conducted on the property where a special event is held must comply with Florida Statutes and the Flagler County Code, and places responsibility squarely on the alcohol licensee: the licensee must ensure that no open container of alcohol sold on the premises is permitted beyond the designated special-event site. The section is deliberately narrow. It governs only alcohol sold at a special event that has already been permitted under the Special Events Ordinance, Sec.

21-53 through 21-80, held on unincorporated county land; it does not establish a stand-alone open-container or public-consumption ordinance for streets, parks or other public property in unincorporated Flagler County outside that event context. Any special-event alcohol sales also remain subject to separate state and county alcoholic-beverage licensing requirements, and Sec. 23-2(20) and (23) of the county's parks ordinance separately bar possessing or consuming alcohol in a county park, or selling it there, without a county permit. Because the enforcement duty in Sec. 21-61 falls on the licensee rather than the individual drinker, a licensee that fails to keep sold alcohol within the event boundary is the party exposed to the county's Special Events Ordinance penalties, in addition to any separate state alcoholic-beverage-license consequences.