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City of Westminster, MD
Carroll County
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No person shall carelessly or willfully interfere with, hinder or obstruct any officer or employee of the City who is engaged in, en route to or returning from, the performance of official duty, whether such interference, hindrance or obstruction be by threat, assault or otherwise.
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Editor's Note: See also § 21-2, Compliance with fire personnel, of Ch. 21, Fire Department, Art. I, General Provisions.
No person shall falsely represent himself to be an officer or employee of the City or without proper authority wear or display any uniform, insignia or credential which identifies any City officer or employee; nor shall any person without proper authority assume to act as an officer or employee of the City, whether to gain access to premises, obtain information, perpetrate a fraud or for any other purpose, provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a private citizen from making a lawful citizen's arrest for felony or breach of the peace committed in his presence.
A. 
City officers and employees shall be courteous in their official transactions with the public, and they shall conduct themselves in the performance of their official duties so as to not knowingly deprive any person, at the time and under the circumstances then and there existing, of any lawful right or benefit to which such person may be entitled. Any person who feels aggrieved by the conduct of any City officer or employee in violation of this subsection is hereby invited to bring such matter to the attention of such officer's or employee's department head or to the Mayor, without prejudice to any other recourse to which such aggrieved person may be entitled.
B. 
Members of the public, in turn, should be courteous in their transactions with City officers and employees, and it shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly taunt, deride, jeer or otherwise debase or insult, whether by act, word or gesture, any City officer or employee at any time or place while such City officer or employee is lawfully engaged in the performance of official duty.
No person shall, without proper authority, knowingly use, tamper with, render inoperative, destroy, damage, remove, deface, molest or otherwise interfere with any books, records, furniture, equipment, gear, apparatus, tools or other items of personal property belonging to, leased to or used by the City or any agency thereof.
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Editor's Note: See also § 78-1, Prohibited acts, of Ch. 78, Fire Prevention, Art. I, General Provisions.
No person shall, without proper authority, knowingly trespass upon or damage, deface, molest or otherwise interfere with any real property belonging to, leased to or used by the City or any agency thereof.
[Added 6-9-2008 by Ord. No. 779]
It shall be unlawful for any person to enter upon or remain upon any City park in violation of any banning notice issued to said person by an authorized City representative for violation of the rules and regulations of the Department of Recreation and Parks. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both, for each and every violation. Additionally, the Mayor and Common Council may institute injunctive, mandamus, or other appropriate action or proceeding at law or equity for the enforcement of this section or to correct violations of it, and any court of competent jurisdiction shall have the right to issue restraining orders, temporary or permanent, injunctions or mandamus or other appropriate forms of remedy or relief.