Sorry, had that backwards, you’re right. It is banned in at least Las Vegas and Reno, but the strip is unincorporated as noted.
Public intoxication is legal everywhere, by blanket law. You just can’t brown bag it in some places.
I assume there’s also an exception in the law for Fremont St. - seeing as several of the casinos there have open-air bars on the sidewalk.
You also forgot:
Cannot buy booze unless you are also buying food in a restaurant setting
Isn’t there a law requiring real bars that serve hard liquor require “memberships”?
Been a while since I lived there.
Sparta banned sales, largely do to a place just outside city limits
Brian
I shoulda read up more - doesn’t look like there is much of a regional law, but they are less willing to enforce in certain areas including Fremont. But: are they plastic? Glass and aluminum are not okay, it looks. Reno certainly has an open container law; signs are posted everywhere downtown. But during festivals where Virginia and side streets are closed off, plastic cups abound. And the Sparks Nugget has a station where you can pour your bar bought/comped drink into a plastic cup before leaving.
Putting a gate across the aisle also stops people from bringing booze up to the register after hours and saves labor b/c nobody has to keep running merchandise back to the shelf. It’s not a legal requirement for supermarkets to do this in pay, but I can thing of at one local store that does, while the chain I normally shop at doesn’t bother (they have signs up w/ the hours of sale though).
It’s not unusual for children to stop by a mom-and-pop shop at times to pick up something “for Dad,” but the ban is extended to bars and restaurants too. Many bars in tourist areas and red-light districts just quietly ignore it though, but there’s an annoyingly large number of them that follow it.
On top of all the other idiocy, PA also has the Johnstown Flood tax - a temporary tax to help cleanup the damage from, you guessed it, the Johnstown flood. Which occurred in 1936, and was well and truly cleaned up long before Pearl Harbor got bombed. So of course they raised it, and raised it again. It is 18% on any liquor or wine sold anywhere in PA.
(This is not the only tax on liquor and wine, but it’s the stupidest one. At least they should rename it the Fuck-you-we-do-whatever-we-want-in-Harrisburg tax)
Not a Nevadan, so I can only speak from experience. But the last time I was in Las Vegas, I had no problem buying and consuming an aluminum can of beer on Fremont Street. Heck, I had a few.
In Kentucky everybody says that it’s because of our tradition of handing out pints for votes, but that doesn’t make any sense–as long as the vote buyers have the sense to lay in a supply the night before, all you’ve done is guarantee that the only place a man can get a drink is at the polls.
A better explanation is that Election Day tended to get rough because it was the day that everybody was in town. When the big family feuds (Hatfield-McCoy, etc.) were a thing, a lot of the bad stuff that went down happened on Election Days. This is still true in smaller communities–I was getting my haircut in a little nearby town this last election day and there were a ton of people hanging around the voting center around poll closing time. My barber (also the Mayor) said that most of them voted early in the day, but they wanted to be there to see the fight that always happened around that time.
Kentucky repealed the election day prohibition last year, though I think some localities still enforce it.
We have some odd laws. We still have wet and dry counties, but towns within a dry county can vote themselves wet and are increasingly doing so in the past few years. This means the county is “moist”, and yes, that’s the official term used by the KY ABC.
Grocery and convenience stores can sell beer, but if they sell wine or liquor it has to be in a separate area with a separate entrance. So, for instance, the Trader Joe’s in Lexington has a little separate store in the front that’s just booze (other than beer). Pharmacies, on the other hand, can sell booze right on their regular shelves, which means we have a lot of drugstores. And liquor stores can sell pretty much whatever they want as long as they mostly sell booze, leading to really awesome stores like Liquor Barn.
Our laws get really ridiculous and convoluted when it comes to the process of getting a liquor permit. Some friends just got a liquor license for their restaurant and it was an 18-month ordeal. Apparently we have over 70 different types of permits to sell booze.
Ahh, Louisiana, where you can get daiquiris at the drive through and we don’t talk about alcohol on Sundays (depending on the parish you’re in). Yes, college was an awfully confusing time when it came to liquor. Oddly enough you still cannot mail alcohol to Louisiana, so lax our laws they may seem but we also have our hardships.
In Massachusetts you can’t order liquor from out of state (i.e. online, etc.) and have it delivered. Technically, if it’s something that’s totally unavailable in the entire state of Mass, you can do it, but in practice, nobody is willing to sell it that way. The exception would be those “clubs” where you subscribe to have a case of wine sent every so often. So for example, if you go to a web site that sends various kinds of gift baskets to people, you cannot order anything with wine in it.
It is idiotic and is just to protect the in-state distributors.
Are you saying the Johnstown flood occurred in 1936? Because it actually occurred in 1889. May 31, 1889 to be exact.
Thanks! I don’t recall ever hearing of the 1936 incident (despite the fact that it’s mentioned in my link above. :o).
Clerks supervised uscans. They checked IDs. The law was a sap to unions because they were concerned that self-checkout was the future and a job loser. All the law has done however is make grocery lines longer and slower…especially in a college neighborhood like Westwood.
I go to JTown to get my hair cut (long story). One of my personal jokes involves joking around about even the slightest drizzle. “Could you hurry it up a bit? I don’t like the look of those clouds!”
Virginia is pretty weird. No by-the-bottle liquor sales at all except in state-run ABC (Alcoholic Beverage Control) stores. The ABC stores are generally open 9-6 or so. However by-the-drink liquor can be sold in restaurants that have an ABC-On (on refers to on-premises) license. Notice I say restaurants because per the ABC there are no pure “bars” in Virginia, any place that sells alcohol also has to sell food.
Stores can sell beer and wine with ABC-Off licenses (Off means off-premises consumption.) I believe restaurants have to quit selling alcohol at 1 AM, and stores have to quit selling beer and wine at midnight or 1 AM, not sure which.
And I’m sure any place selling alcohol has to pay an ABC fee and abide by a growing list of rules.
I think you can thank a major beer manufacturer headquartered in Saint Louis for Missouri’s rather …libertarian liquor laws. You can also thank them for our rather draconian pot laws (well, maybe not, but I’m willing to bet my left shoe that they’re vehemently behind any resistance to legalization).
The more of this thread I read the happier I am to live in California.