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;
(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 violation of any provision of this chapter
shall be a misdemeanor, punishable as provided in Chapter
1, General
Provisions, Article
II.