Logan, UT Public Conduct: Public Alcohol Use (2026)

Section 9.12.300 of the Logan Municipal Code is the city's open container and public drinking rule. Subsection (B) provides that no person shall open, possess, or consume from an open bottle, can or other receptacle containing an alcoholic beverage in an unpermitted public place. Subsection (C) designates an offense as a class C misdemeanor.

The definitions in subsection (A) fix the reach. An open bottle, can or other receptacle is a container having within it an alcoholic beverage, which has been opened, its seal broken or the contents of which have been partially consumed. Alcoholic beverages mean beer and liquor as defined in the Utah Alcoholic Beverage Act, Utah Code Ann. § 32B-1-102, or its successor. An unpermitted public place includes any street, right of way, sidewalk, alley, publicly owned property or state or county road located within the Logan City limits; boarded or abandoned commercial buildings; vacant lots; and any publicly owned building or publicly owned real property.

The definition carves out licensed premises. An unpermitted public place does not include a premises or area identified in a license or permit issued by the City or the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control as authorizing the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages, when there is conformance with the applicable license or permit restrictions. A person holding a sealed container is outside the open-container definition until the seal is broken.

A separate section, § 9.12.290, addresses public intoxication. A person is guilty of intoxication if under the influence of any alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or any substance having the property of releasing toxic vapors, to a degree that the person can endanger herself or himself or another, in a public place or in a private place where the person unreasonably disturbs other persons. That offense is also a class C misdemeanor.