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

Section 3-3 of the Clay County Code of Ordinances makes it unlawful for any person to consume any alcoholic beverages on any county-owned property or county park, with an exception carved out for activities separately authorized under chapter 12, article X of the Clay County Code, the parks and recreation chapter. This ban covers county parks and any other county-owned parcel, from conservation areas to the administration campus in Green Cove Springs, unless a permitted event under that separate chapter allows it. A second, narrower restriction sits in section 3-2(e): it is unlawful to consume alcoholic beverages within three hundred feet of any establishment holding an alcoholic beverage license limited to package sales only, meaning liquor stores and similar off-premises sellers, rather than bars or restaurants licensed for on-site consumption.

daily in the unincorporated county, on-premises consumption must stop when sales stop (with a 30-minute grace period), and no alcohol may be sold from the start of Christmas Day until the normal opening time on December 26. A special carve-out in section 3-2(f) lets 'limited hours establishments' along the Wells Road Corridor sell later hours. None of these alcohol sections in Chapter 3 currently states its own penalty, since the enforcement and penalty provisions that once sat at sections 3-4 through 3-7 were repealed by Ordinance No. 2022-35, so a violation defaults to the Code's general penalty in section 1-8.