Revere, MA Public Conduct: Public Alcohol Use (2026)

040 of the Revere Municipal Code makes it unlawful to drink any alcoholic beverage, as defined in Chapter 138, Section 1 of the Massachusetts General Laws, while on a public way or any way the public may use as an invitee or licensee, in a park or playground, or on private land, unless the owner or person in control of that space has consented. The ban reaches sidewalks, streets and public rights-of-way outright, and reaches private property too if nobody in control of it has agreed to the drinking.

Subsection B directs that any alcoholic beverage used in violation of the section be seized by police and safely held until the underlying charge is finally adjudicated in court, at which point the beverage is returned to whoever is legally entitled to possess it, rather than destroyed. O. O. 83-339). 2 of the old city code, showing Revere has policed public drinking on its streets, parks and beachfront for decades before the current codification. Because the ordinance is city law rather than state law, enforcement and the fine schedule are entirely local and separate from any state open-container statute that might otherwise apply.