Rose Hill, NC Public Conduct: Public Alcohol Use (2026)

01 sets two separate bans. First, no one may possess any intoxicating beverage, whether the container is open or closed, on any property owned or controlled by the Town of Rose Hill, which covers town buildings, parks, and other municipal property regardless of whether the container has been opened. Second, no one may possess an intoxicating beverage in an open container in any PUBLIC VEHICULAR AREA, a term the ordinance defines broadly to include any drive, driveway, road, roadway, street, sidewalk, alley, or parking area open for vehicular traffic on the grounds of a public or private hospital, college, school, church, or state or town institution, or on the grounds of a service station, car wash, supermarket, store, restaurant, amusement center, lounge, shopping center, office building, or similar business providing parking for customers or the public.

§ 18B-301, meaning a bar or restaurant licensed to serve alcohol for consumption on site is not swept into the open-container ban on its own property. The rule was adopted in 1978 and amended in 1997, giving the town decades of unbroken enforcement authority over open containers in its parking lots, streets, and municipal grounds.