[Adopted as Ch. 670 of the 1989 Codified
Ordinances]
No person shall knowingly and willfully raise
a false alarm of fire at any gathering or in any public place, or
ring any bell or operate any public or private mechanical fire alarm
apparatus, or make a false report of fire in any manner whatsoever,
for the purpose of creating a false alarm of fire.
[Amended 10-21-1998 by Ord. No. 367]
A.
The following persons shall be deemed disorderly persons
and such persons are hereby prohibited in the city:
(1)
Any person of sufficient ability who refuses or neglects
to support, or who has actually abandoned his wife, child or children;
any vagrant; any person who is a beggar;
(2)
Any window peeper;
(3)
Any person who is intoxicated in a public place and
who is either endangering the safety of another person or of property
or is acting in a manner that causes a public disturbance;
(4)
Any person who loiters in or about any police station,
police headquarters, building, court building or other public building
or place for the purpose of soliciting employment of legal services
or the services of sureties upon criminal recognizance;
(5)
Any person who makes any improper noise, disturbance
or riot, or who is engaged in any illegal or improper diversion, or
who uses any indecent, insulting or immoral language in the presence
of others;
(6)
Any person who urinates in public or on or in private
property not designated as a rest room, washroom or bathroom;
(7)
All persons who collect or assemble in crowds and
bodies for unlawful or mischievous purposes in the city, to the annoyance
or inconvenience of others;
(8)
Any person who willfully assaults another or who commits
assault and battery upon another person in the city, or who is engaged
in or aids or abets any fight, quarrel or disturbance in the city;
(9)
All persons who collect or assemble or stand or sit
in crowds in front of or about any church or place of worship in the
City during services or during the gathering or departing of the congregation,
or who collect or assemble and stand or sit in crowds or loiter about
or hinder, obstruct, impede or block the free and uninterrupted passage
on any sidewalk, street, alley or driveway, or in front of any place
of business in the city, or in any hall, stairway, doorway, vestibule
or passageway leading to any store, office, courtroom, public hall
or building or any other place in the city, or loiter in, about or
on a public or private parking lot;
(10)
All persons who are found jostling or roughly
crowding people unnecessarily in a public place;
(11)
All persons who stand, loiter or stroll about
in any place in the City awaiting or seeking an opportunity to obtain
money or other valuable thing by trick or fraud or to aid or assist
therein;
(12)
All persons who engage in any fraudulent scheme,
device or trick to obtain, or who do obtain, money or other valuable
thing in any place in the city, or who aid or abet or in any manner
are concerned in such scheme, device or trick;
(13)
All ropers, steerers or cappers (so-called)
for any gambling, game room or gambling house, or any gambling trick
or device;
(14)
All persons found loitering about or in any
hotel or other place or public resort or in any gambling house or
rooming house, or in any place where intoxicating liquors are sold,
stored, kept or furnished; and
(15)
All persons wandering about streets either by
night or day without lawful means of support or without being able
to give a satisfactory account of themselves.
B.
A vagrant, as referred to in Subsection A hereof,
shall be deemed to be any person who wanders about and lodges or loiters
in public rest rooms, market places or other public buildings or places
or in the open air in the City and who has no permanent place of abode
or visible means of maintenance.
C.
A beggar, as referred to in Subsection A hereof, shall
be deemed to be any person who, within the city, wanders about and
begs in the streets or other public places, or sits, stands or takes
a position in any such place and begs from passersby, either by words,
by exhibiting a sign or by gestures.
No person shall willfully interrupt or disturb,
on any day of the week, any assembly of people met for the worship
of God within the place of such meeting or out of it. No person shall
make or excite any disturbance or contention in any tavern, dance
hall, beer garden, store, manufacturing establishment or other place
of business, or in any street, lane, alley, highway or public building,
ground or park, or at any election or other public meeting in the
City where persons are peaceably and lawfully assembled.
No person shall make or assist in making any
noise, disturbance, trouble or improper diversion, or any rout or
riot, by which the peace and good order of the City are disturbed.
A.
Trespass. No person who is not regularly enrolled
as a student, or who is not a parent or guardian thereof or a school
official, teacher or other public or school employee, shall enter
or trespass upon or loiter in or upon any public, private or parochial
school building or school property in the City for any reason whatever
unless such person has received written permission from the principal
or other person designated by the principal to be in or upon or to
remain in or upon such public, private or parochial school building
or school property. However, such written permission need not be secured
by persons engaging in or attending a school or Park and Recreation
Advisory Board authorized activity, or by persons using school playgrounds
or playground equipment after school hours or when school is not in
session, unless such entry or use has been otherwise prohibited by
a rule or regulation of the School Board, school principal or other
person, board or committee with the authority to prohibit such use
or entry.
B.
Disturbances. No person shall willfully or maliciously
make or assist in making any noise, disturbance or improper diversion
by which the peace, quiet or good order of any public, private or
parochial school is disturbed.
C.
Duty to leave premises. Any person, whether lawfully
or unlawfully in or upon any public, private or parochial school building
or school property, who is found to be creating a disturbance in or
upon any such school building or property, shall leave immediately
when so directed by the principal or by any other person designated
by the principal.
D.
Extortion. No person shall, by violence, threats of
violence or other form of coercion, force or attempt to force any
public, private or parochial school student or other person to give
or to lend any money or other thing of value to any person at any
time.
E.
Unauthorized borrowing from students. No person shall
borrow or attempt to borrow any money or thing of value from any student
in or upon any public, private or parochial school building or school
property in the city, or during any time when such student is engaging
in, going to or returning from any regularly scheduled session or
activity of any such school, without first obtaining the written approval
of the principal of such school or other person designated by the
principal to issue such written approval. However, this subsection
shall not apply to college students who borrow money or things of
value from other college students or adults.
F.
Property destruction. No person shall damage, destroy
or deface any public, private or parochial school building, or the
grounds, outbuildings, fences, trees or other appurtenances or fixtures
belonging thereto.
G.
SCHOOL
PRINCIPAL
Definitions. As used in this section, the following
terms shall have the meanings indicated:
Any pre-elementary school, elementary (grades K-6) school,
secondary (grades 7-12) school or college, or combination thereof.
Any principal of any elementary or secondary school or the
chief administrative officer of any elementary or secondary school
or college.
