Open Containers in Vegas
 

My DH says he thought he read somewhere that you couldnt walk down the Strip with an open beer anymore.

Has anyone been there recently and have 1st hand knowledge?

Thanks

PS
It is snowing here in
Snohomish County Washington.

In September, I was in
Vegas and lots of people were walking around with those big plastic cocktail glasses.....

I walked all over Vegas with an open container and no one said a word.

GoTravel,
When ?

Last weekend.

hot diggity dog !

We cant wait until our Feb/Mar Nascar weekend.

I googled and found out that it is legal to have an open container on the strip and downtown Las Vegas.

http://www.cocktaildoll.com/didyouknow.htm

My DH just found the book where he read the opposite.

Pauline Frommer's Las Vegas
1st addition 2007
page 321

"Recently, Vegas changed its open container laws to make make carring alcoholic beverages on the street illegal (so empty the Eiffel Tower
margarita before you leave Paris Las Legas.)"

dandj, I'd call.

I've looked and looked online and cannot find where it is illegal to have an open container on the street.

We even asked and everyone told us it was legal.

Yea, maybe I will call the LVPD and ask..

thanks
and Happy Holidays

My sister-in-law went to Vegas at the beginning of November and she keeps talking about walking around with a margarita!

when calling for clarification please take note that most of the Strip is outside of LV city limits while downtown is...well..downtown LV> The city might have a new ordinance that the county does not.

But I can't imagine Vegas proper with an open container law!

The strip is in the city limits.

The Strip is most certainly NOT within city limits. It is in unincorporated Clark County.

Open containers are still allowed on the Strip - assuming you're walking, that is. They are not allowed in cars.

lgott is correct. The strip is not within the city limits of Las Vegas.

I just called the LVPD.

It is legal to have a open container on the Strip if you are walking.

No open containers in vehicles.

Pauline Frommer was wrong.