Fort Collins Open Container Violation Lawyers

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Have you been charged with violating Fort Collins open alcohol container law?

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

It is unlawful in Fort Collins 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 Fort Collins, for example Las Vegas, you can but other cities you cannot.

Fort Collins 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 Fort Collins car accidents

Giving Fort Collins funding for transportation

What are Open Container Laws?

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

Fort Collins Sidewalks

Fort Collins Inside a car

Front steps entrance of a Fort Collins building

Fort Collins Schools

Inside a Fort Collins parking lot

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