Puyallup, WA Public Conduct: Public Alcohol Use (2026)

26 governs public alcohol consumption. 020 makes it unlawful for any person on city streets, public highways or roads, or in any other public place within the city that is not duly licensed for consumption of alcoholic beverages, to drink alcohol or possess a bottle, can, or other receptacle containing an alcoholic beverage once its container has been opened, a seal broken, or the contents partially removed. 010, extends the same open-container logic to vehicles: it is a traffic infraction to drink alcohol inside a motor vehicle on a highway, or for a registered owner or driver to keep an opened alcohol container anywhere in the passenger compartment, including the glove box, rather than in the trunk or, in a trunkless vehicle, an area not normally occupied by the driver or passengers.

That vehicle rule exempts chartered public conveyances, the living quarters of a motor home or camper, and for-hire passengers whose transport is licensed under city, county, or state law. 020 covers licensed premises' surrounding public rights-of-way and city parks or sidewalks that lack their own liquor license, meaning a bar patron cannot legally step outside with an open drink. Both sections trace to Ordinance 1886 (1981) and were amended through Ordinance 2628 (1999). 010 is charged as a traffic infraction.