(A) No person shall drink, use or consume any alcoholic beverage as defined in Cal. Bus. & Prof. § 23004 (and related sections) upon any public street, sidewalk, highway, road, lane or alley, or in or upon any other publicly owned property which is open to the use or the business of the public at the time, but which place is not licensed for the consumption of such beverage on the premises. The provisions hereof shall not apply however, to the park and recreation areas regulated under Chapter 96, Parks.
(B) No person shall, in or upon any of the places listed in division (A) above, have in possession any alcoholic beverage defined as in division (A) above, contained in any bottle, can or other receptacle, which has been opened, or a seal broken, or the contents of which have been partially removed, provided that this division (B) shall not apply when the beverage is in possession at the time strictly for the purpose of transporting the same, along with other items, briefly and temporarily and directly though a place listed in division (A) above, the standing point and destination point both being places other than those listed in division (A) above. Further, this division (B) shall not apply to the park and recreation areas regulated under Chapter 96, Parks.
(C) No person shall do or commit any act prohibited in divisions (A) or (B) above when such person is upon privately owned property rather than publicly owned property, which privately owned property is open to the use or patronage of the general public at the time, unless such person doing or committing said act has the express or implied permission or invitation so to do from the owner or lessee or other person in charge of the private property or business premises involved.
(D) Divisions (A) and (B) above shall not apply to consumption or possession of alcoholic beverages on city owned property pursuant to any permit, entitlement or other permission issued or given by the City Manager or City Council in connection with the holding of a special event on or at the place or premises where such consumption or possession would otherwise be prohibited, nor shall such divisions apply with respect to public property owned and controlled by a public entity other than the city if such other public entity has given its express or implied permission or invitation allowing use of the premises for purposes otherwise prohibited in divisions (A) or (B) above.
('61 Code, § 15.30) (Ord. 688, § 1, passed - - )