A. Any person who shall, in any public place, or in or upon any passenger coach, streetcar, or in or upon any other vehicle commonly used for the transportation of passengers, or in or about any depot, platform, waiting station or room, drink or otherwise consume any intoxicating liquor unless authorized by the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act (37 O.S. § 502 et seq.), intoxicating substance, or intoxicating compound of any kind, or inhale glue, paint, or other intoxicating substance, or if any person shall be drunk or intoxicated in any public or private road, or in any passenger coach, streetcar, or any public place or building, or at any public gathering, from drinking or consuming such intoxicating liquor, intoxicating substance, or intoxicating compound or from inhalation of glue, paint, or other intoxicating substance, or if any person shall be drunk or intoxicated from any cause and shall disturb the peace of any person, he to shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00).
B. "Public place" means any street, alley, highway, sidewalk, park, playground, or place to which the general public has access and a right to resort for business, entertainment, or other lawful purpose. A public place shall include, but not be limited to, any store, shop, restaurant, tavern, bowling alley, cafe, theater, drug store, pool room, shopping center, and any other place devoted to amusement or entertainment of the general public. It shall also include the front or immediate area of the above.
(Code 1991, § 10-401)
Cross reference- Alcoholic beverages, Ch. 6.
State Law reference- Similar provisions, 37 O.S. § 8.