Taylor, MI Public Conduct: Public Alcohol Use (2026)

Taylor City Code § 34-86 sets four separate alcohol rules for city parks. Subsection (a) bars anyone from consuming or possessing an open container of alcoholic liquor in a motor vehicle in a park, whether the vehicle is stopped, parked, standing or moving. Subsection (b) bars possessing or consuming any alcoholic liquor inside a park's public buildings. Subsection (c) confines alcoholic liquor on park property generally to areas the director specifically designates for it, meaning open ground or field areas are off-limits by default. Subsection (d) makes it unlawful to enter a park under the influence of alcoholic liquor or to be under the influence while in a park at all, a broader drunkenness ban that applies park-wide regardless of location.

Subsection (e) carves out a narrow exception: a nonprofit, religious, fraternal, civic or patriotic organization may sell alcoholic liquor at specifically designated recreation centers or park areas if the director approves and the state liquor control commission issues the organization a license, and sales must be by individual drink for on-premises consumption only, never by the package or in bulk. A cross-referenced state law note ties the section to the Michigan Liquor Control Code of 1998 (MCL 436.1101 et seq.) and the state's park-specific liquor statute, MCL 436.1915.