Avondale, AZ Public Conduct: Public Marijuana Use (2026)

Section 15-30 sets two separate bans. Subsection (a) prohibits the use, sale, cultivation, manufacture, production or distribution of marijuana or marijuana products on any property occupied, owned, controlled or operated by the City of Avondale, with no exception for private consumption. Subsection (b) extends that same ban to state-owned or other political-subdivision property, but only where that government entity has itself adopted a rule, regulation or policy prohibiting marijuana on its property. Subsection (c) is the general public-use rule: it is unlawful for an individual to smoke marijuana in a 'public place,' 'sports facility' or 'open space' in the city, terms borrowed from the Smoke-Free Arizona Act (Ariz.

Rev. Stat. Sec. 01) and, for 'open space,' defined in Sec. 15-29 to mean a public park, public sidewalk, public walkway or public pedestrian thoroughfare. That definition means the ban reaches sidewalks and park pathways just as much as an enclosed public building. Subsection (d) fixes the penalty: any violation of Sec. 15-30, whether smoking in public or using city property, is a petty offense, a lower classification than the Class 1 misdemeanor tier used elsewhere in the recreational marijuana article for unlicensed establishments.