Port Orange, FL Public Conduct: Public Alcohol Use (2026)

Section 6-3(a) bans possessing an open container of alcohol or consuming alcohol on the city's streets, sidewalks, thoroughfares, or any public property, expressly naming public buildings, facilities, parks, playgrounds, recreational facilities, rights-of-way and parking lots, unless a listed exception applies. The named exceptions include the municipal golf course, the Riverside Pavilion premises under a specific nonprofit lease, the Palmer College of Chiropractic Florida campus, government functions held by bodies such as the Florida League of Cities, and any city property the city council formally designates by written authorization.

The most detailed carve-out is the Port Orange Riverwalk open container area, the paver walkway between the Ocean Avenue right-of-way and Halifax Drive along the Halifax River. Inside that area, a person who legally buys an alcoholic beverage from an adjacent state-licensed premises may possess and drink it, but only in an approved container: a cup bearing the seller's logo, no larger than 16 ounces. to midnight each day; outside those hours, any open container there is unlawful. Beyond the Riverwalk, the city separately permits alcohol at private and public social events on city property, but only under a permit from the director of parks and recreation, applied for at least 60 calendar days before the event, with a fee set by council resolution and an indemnification agreement.