OPINION ANSWERING RESERVED QUESTION OF LAW
T1 Creed Wright Taylor was charged in the Municipal Criminal Court of Norman, Case No. N 06-3587, with Public Intoxication, in violation of Section 15-802 of the Norman City Code.1 Taylor filed a "Motion to Dismiss for Violation of Defendant's Right to Due Process Pursuant to 48A 0.8. § 3-428." The Municipal Court denied Taylor's motion to dismiss and he entered a no contest plea and was fined $150. Taylor then filed in the Municipal Court a notice of intent to appeal to the District Court of Cleveland County. The matter was set for trial de novo before the Honorable Reginald Gaston, Special Judge of the District Court2 Judge Gaston acquitted Taylor and expunged his record on the basis that the arresting officer did not follow 48A 0.8.Supp.2005, § 3-428.3 The City appeals on a reserved question of law under 22 0.8.8upp.2002, § 105838).
RESERVED QUESTION
12 We are asked to decide whether Title 48A O0.8.Supp.2005, § 3-428 preempts enforcement of municipal ordinances criminalizing public intoxication. In other words, can an intoxicated person in a public place be arrested and prosecuted for public intoxication under a local municipal ordinance? Our answer to that question under the particular cireumstances of this case is affirmative. Contrary to the district court's ruling in this case, the officer had the discretion to arrest and jail this defendant. Our answer to the general question, however, is a qualified one. Municipal ordinances criminalizing public intoxication are unenforceable when either the municipality or the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services has approved a program that provides an alternative to statutory or municipal criminal prosecution of publicly intoxicated persons, provided the intoxicated person consents and there is space available for him in the approved program. 48A 0.S.Supp.2005, § 3-428(C)(1).
[3 The Legislature adopted the Oklahoma Alcohol Services Act (hereinafter "Act") as part of the Mental Health Law in 1978. See 48A 0.8.8upp.1978, § 38-401 et seq. The Act states:
It is hereby declared to be the public policy of this state to recognize alcoholism and drug abuse as illnesses and public health problems affecting the health, safety, morals, economy and general welfare of the state; to recognize alcoholism and drug abuse as illnesses subject to medical treatment and other therapeutic interven*728tion and abatement; and to recognize that the sufferer of alcoholism and drug abuse is entitled to treatment and rehabilitation. The purpose of this act is to establish means whereby the appropriate resources of this state may be most fully and effectively focused upon the problems of aleo-holism and drug abuse and utilized in implementing programs for the control and treatment of these illnesses.
48A § 3-402.
T4 Shortly after the Act went into effect, the Honorable Ray Giles asked the Attorney General for an opinion on whether city and county police still had the authority to incarcerate a "public drunk" against his will. Question Submitted by: The Honorable Ray Giles, Oklahoma State Senate, 1978 OK AG 219, 11.
The Attorney General concluded that:
The Oklahoma Aleohol Services Act does not prevent the in voluntary [sic] jail incarceration of intoxicated persons found in public places under the following cireum-stances.
1. If the capacity at the facility or facilities designated by the regional aleohol services plan to serve the area is exceeded.
2. In areas which are, according to the regional alcohol services plan, not served by any facilities.
3. Where the intoxicated person does not consent to the alternative offered, provided however that consent is not necessary and alternative treatment is required where the person is unconscious or in danger of harming himself or others.
4. Where the intoxicated person is subject to other charges.
Id. at I 10.
15 The Attorney General's opinion is instructive in our construction of the Act. The Act has three sections dealing with the arrest and prosecution of intoxicated persons in public places. Under Section 3-428(A), an officer may offer to take an intoxicated person to his home, to an alternative facility pursuant to the provisions of the Act, or to an approved treatment facility.4 This section affords the officer discretion in dealing with an intoxicated individual. Section 3-428(B) deals with intoxicated persons who are either unconscious or a threat to themselves or others and authorizes taking such persons into protective custody.5 Section 3-428(C) renders municipal ordinances eriminalizing public intoxication unenforceable when either the municipality or the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services has approved a program alternative to statutory or municipal requirements of prosecution and imprisonment of intoxicated persons in public.6 If such a program exists and has space available, the arresting officer and any other public official involved must utilize such alternative treatment program upon the volun*729tary consent of the intoxicated person and the receiving facility rather than proceeding under the statutory or municipal laws pertaining to criminal prosecution of intoxicated persons. 48A 0.S.8upp.2005, § 3-428(C)(1).
16 Conversely, law enforcement officers may proceed under applicable statutory or municipal laws pertaining to criminal prosecution of intoxicated persons when there is no approved program in the area or when the facility housing the alternative program is full.7 Officers may also incarcerate an intoxicated person if the person refuses the offered alternative or has other charges. The Legislature removed an officer's authority to arrest and jail a publicly intoxicated person only when (1) there is an approved alternative facility available and (2) the intoxicated person consents to treatment at that facility.8 The Legislature neither removed the crime of public intoxication from the books, nor limited the authority of municipalities to criminalize and punish such conduct. See, e.g., 37 0.8.2001, § 8.
T7 From the record below, it appears that the City of Norman does not have an approved program alternative to the prosecution of public intoxication. Nor was there specific evidence that Taylor was unconscious or a danger to anyone. Consequently, under the circumstances of this case, and contrary to the ruling of the court below, the arresting officer had discretion under § 3-428(A) either to arrest and jail Taylor or to offer to take him to one of the three listed places in § 8-428(A).9
18 The City also argues that the district court erred in expunging Taylor's record. This issue is beyond the seope of the specific question reserved. The district court's judgment of acquittal bars further prosecution of Taylor in this matter. See State v. Love, 2004 OK CR 11, ¶1 n. 1, 85 P.3d 849, 849 n. 1. Taylor also raises additional issues that will not be considered because they too are beyond the reserved question.
DECISION
T9 The Reserved Question of Law is ANSWERED. Pursuant to Rule 3.15, Rules of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, Title 22, Ch.18, App. (2008), the MANDATE is ORDERED issued upon the delivery and filing of this decision.
LUMPKIN, P.J., and CHAPEL and LEWIS, JJ.: concur.
C. JOHNSON, V.P.J.: recuse.