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§ 12-4-8 DRINKING IN PUBLIC.
   Drinking in public consists of drinking or consuming alcoholic liquors (as the term is defined in Section 60-3A-3 NMSA 1978, as amended):
   (A)   In any city-owned park, except a park in which drinking is expressly permitted by resolution.
   (B)   (1)   In any public way, except a public way within a city-owned park in which drinking is expressly permitted by resolution.
      (2)   For purposes of this division (B), PUBLIC WAY is defined as the entire width between the property lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is customarily open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel and includes the street, sidewalk, and any other area between the curb lines or lateral lines of the roadway and the adjacent property lines.
   (C)   In any city owned parking lot, except a parking lot in a city-owned park in which drinking is expressly permitted by resolution.
   (D)   Within 100 feet of any establishment licensed to dispense alcoholic liquors.
('74 Code, § 12-1-4-9) (Ord. 96-1973; Am. Ord. 78-1978; Am. Ord. 26-1982) Penalty, see § 12-1-99