Pompano Beach, FL Public Conduct: Public Alcohol Use (2026)

11(A) makes it unlawful to consume any alcoholic beverage, regardless of content, or to possess an open container of one, on unlicensed public premises within the city, expressly naming streets, sidewalks and public beaches. The ban reaches beyond government land: it also covers "quasi-public" property, defined as private property where the owner permits general public use, such as parking lots, shopping centers, and common areas of apartment buildings, condominiums, mobile home parks, and vacant or open lots, but only where the private owner has authorized the city in writing to enforce the section there.

The section carves out one important exception in the opposite direction: it does not permit drinking in the parking lot of, or immediately adjacent to, any premises licensed for on-premise alcohol sales, closing a loophole bar patrons might otherwise use. 11(B) governs city parks and municipal facilities separately. No one may bring in, consume, or sell alcoholic beverages there except under two arrangements: a vendor operating under an agreement with the City Commission, who may sell only by the individual drink for on-premises consumption (sealed beer and wine sales are barred), or a family or group picnic that has secured a permit approved by the City Commission.

The Director of Parks and Recreation may require law enforcement officers to be present at a permitted function, with the group covering that expense in advance. 11(C) requires anyone holding a park alcohol permit to produce it on request of any law enforcement officer or authorized park employee; the Parks and Recreation Director or a designee may revoke the permit for just cause. The open-container provision traces back to Ordinance 67-33 (1967) and was last amended by Ordinance 2003-26 in 2003; the park-permit subsection dates to Ordinance 89-88 (1989).