What Conduct the Administrative Provision Covers
Article 171 of the Georgian Code of Administrative Offences addresses two distinct compositions: the drinking of alcoholic beverages in public places, and actions insulting human dignity and public morality committed in public places. Under the first part, drinking alcohol at a stadium, in a square, in a park, on any kind of public transport or in other public places constitutes an administrative offence. The provision contains an express carve-out: trade and public catering enterprises, as well as places where alcoholic beverages are sold by the bottle, fall outside the scope of this norm, so the same conduct there does not attract liability under this article.
The second part governs conduct of a different nature: actions in public places that insult human dignity and public morality, expressed in flagrant disregard of the rules of behaviour accepted in society and creating a humiliating or insulting environment for a person. The law sharpens this formula with concrete markers — such conduct includes sexual conduct, full or partial indecent exposure, and the satisfaction of physiological needs in public places. Distinguishing the two compositions correctly is decisive, because different fine ranges attach to them.