Everett, MA Public Conduct: Public Marijuana Use (2026)

Section 13-1.1 of the Everett Revised Ordinances, enacted by the Everett City Council in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, makes it unlawful to consume or use marihuana on, in or upon any public way, any way to which the public has a right of access, or any place to which members of the public have access as invitees or licensees. The text names parks and playgrounds as covered places. It borrows the definition of marihuana from Chapter 94C, Section 1 of the General Laws. A police officer can arrest, without a warrant, anyone who violates the section in the officer's presence.

Subsection (b) requires seizure. All marihuana consumed or being used in violation is held until final adjudication of the charge against the person arrested or summoned before the court, and then destroyed in accordance with M.G.L. c.94C, s47A.

Subsection (c) extends the ban to city owned property and city owned buildings to which the public has a right of access. It also bars using or consuming marihuana at any event or function, public or private, held on city owned property or within city owned buildings.

The penalty in subsection (d) is a stated fine of three hundred dollars ($300.00) for each violation, rather than the graduated schedule used for most Everett offenses. Subsection (e) gives a person who is fined the right to appeal in a non-criminal proceeding by making a written request within 21 days to the Clerk Magistrate for the Malden District Court. Subsection (f) names the Everett Police Department as the enforcing authority of the section.