With bikers and spectators visiting for the Atlantic Beach Memorial Day Black Pearl Cultural Heritage and Bike Festival, tourists kicking off summer at the beach and locals celebrating the long weekend, Memorial Day always brings one of the busiest weekends in the Grand Strand.
For Grand Stranders and visitors alike, it’s important to know these local laws to avoid a ticket this holiday weekend.
North Myrtle Beach laws
This Memorial Day weekend will be the first Atlantic Beach bike festival with North Myrtle Beach’s new nuisance party ordinance. The ordinance allows emergency responders and law enforcement officers to shut down parties determined to be nuisances and address obstructions.
The new rule identifies nuisance parties as gatherings that create a disturbance or safety concern. Some potential issues are common unlawful issues, like public urination or defecation, illegal open containers of alcohol, illegal sale or consumption of alcohol, illegal substance use and public indecency. Other inconveniences include excessive noise, unlawful littering and property damage without the owner’s consent. If a party is determined to be a nuisance, it must cease immediately and everyone who doesn’t reside at the premises must leave…