Oklahoma City, OK Public Conduct: Public Alcohol Use (2026)

Section 5-24 of the Alcoholic Beverages Control Ordinance lists eight general prohibitions that function as Oklahoma City's open-container and public-drinking law. Under paragraph (7), no one may consume spirits in public except on the premises of an ABLE Commission licensee authorized to sell or serve individual drinks, closing off parks, sidewalks, parking lots and other public places to open drinking unless the seller holds that specific license. Paragraph (2) extends the ban to the point of sale itself: a person may not open a retail container or consume alcohol on the premises of a package store, grocery store, convenience store or drug store.

Paragraph (6) governs transport: an alcoholic beverage in a vehicle on a public highway, street or alley must stay in its original sealed container, cap or cork unbroken, unless it rides in the trunk, the spare-tire compartment of a station wagon or panel truck, or another outside compartment the driver and passengers cannot reach while the vehicle is moving. 00, excluding costs and fees, with each continuing day of violation treated as a separate offense. The prohibitions sit alongside § 5-23, which separately criminalizes minors possessing alcohol in public, and § 5-32(6), which bars licensees from letting patrons leave with an open container, so enforcement can reach both the drinker and, in a licensed setting, the business that let the container out the door.