Colton Open Container Violation Lawyers

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Have you been charged with violating Colton open alcohol container law?

Wise Laws Open Container Violation lawyers represent clients throughout Colton in defending against open container charges.

It is unlawful in Colton for the driver or passengers to have an "open container" of any alcohol in the car. This applies to open empty containers of alcoholic beverages, or open containers with alcoholic beverages in them.

Open container is a misdemeanor, usually punished by a fine. In a vehicle with multiple occupants in which no one will take the blame, the officer will often cite the person who is closest to the container. Can you hold an alcoholic beverage in a plastic beer cup while walking along the street? It really depends on the open container laws in your Colton, for example Las Vegas, you can but other cities you cannot.

Colton Open container laws provide a number of objectives. Most particularly, open container laws mean to:

To maintain a respectable quality of life and to keep people from being drunk in public, which equates to less rowdy behavior

Preventing Colton car accidents

Giving Colton funding for transportation

What are Open Container Laws?

Colton open container law constrains where people can consume alcohol in public. Exactly what a public place is depends on the specific Colton.

Colton Sidewalks

Colton Inside a car

Front steps entrance of a Colton building

Colton Schools

Inside a Colton parking lot

Wise Laws deals with many student cases, which may be charged with additional offenses such as minor in possession, or underage consumption. Colton College students may be subject to suspension or expulsion for Colton alcohol offenses that violate school policies when it comes to open container laws.