Roseville, MN Public Conduct: Public Alcohol Use (2026)

Section 701.03(7) of the Roseville City Code is the alcohol rule for city parks. It has two sentences of prohibition. First, no person can possess, display, consume or use intoxicating liquors as defined in Minn. Stat. § 340A.101, subd. 14. Second, no person can possess, display, consume or use non-intoxicating malt liquors as defined in Minn. Stat. § 340A.101, subd. 19, except in certain areas of Central Park. The verbs cover more than drinking: simply possessing or displaying liquor in a park is within the ban.

The Central Park exception is not a standing open area. The permitted areas in Central Park are established by the director of the parks and recreation department pursuant to permits issued on a case-by-case basis and upon conditions imposed by those permits. The exception clause is printed at the end of the sentence about non-intoxicating malt liquors, so the intoxicating liquor sentence carries no exception of its own.

The rule reaches every place defined as a park in § 701.01: any city owned or operated public park, open space, playground or golf course. It is one of 18 numbered regulations in § 701.03, and it sits alongside the rule that closes city parks between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. unless otherwise posted. Subsection (15) adds that all persons shall obey all orders or directions of the director or employees of the parks and recreation department, which gives park staff direct authority to enforce the posted conditions on a Central Park permit.

The parks director is the named official. Anyone planning an event with malt liquor in Central Park has to obtain the permit and follow its conditions, and the permit areas change with each permit rather than being fixed in the Code. Section 701.03 does not print a fee or application deadline for that permit.