As used in this Article, the following terms mean:
Any place which at the time of the offense is not open to
the public. It includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
Any property in which the person does not have a possessory
interest.
Any place which at the time of the offense is open to the
public. It includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
A.
A person commits the offense of peace disturbance if he or she:
1.
Unreasonably and knowingly disturbs or alarms another person
or persons by:
a.
Loud noise; or
b.
Offensive language addressed in a face-to-face manner to a specific
individual and uttered under circumstances which are likely to produce
an immediate violent response from a reasonable recipient; or
c.
Threatening to commit a felonious act against any person under
circumstances which are likely to cause a reasonable person to fear
that such threat may be carried out; or
d.
Fighting; or
e.
Creating a noxious and offensive odor.
A person commits the offense of unlawful assembly if he/she
knowingly assembles with six (6) or more other persons and agrees
with such persons to violate any of the criminal laws of this State
or of the United States with force or violence.
A person commits the offense of rioting if he/she knowingly
assembles with six (6) or more other persons and agrees with such
persons to violate any of the criminal laws of this State or of the
United States with force or violence and thereafter, while still so
assembled, does violate any of said laws with force or violence.
A person commits the offense of refusal to disperse if, being
present at the scene of an unlawful assembly or at the scene of a
riot, he/she knowingly fails or refuses to obey the lawful command
of a Law Enforcement Officer to depart from the scene of such unlawful
assembly or riot.
A.
It
shall be unlawful for any person to stand or remain idle either alone
or in consort with others in a public place in such manner so as to:
1.
Obstruct any public street, public highway, public sidewalk or any
other public place or building by hindering or impeding or tending
to hinder or impede the free and uninterrupted passage of vehicles,
traffic or pedestrians;
2.
Commit in or upon any public street, public highway, public sidewalk
or any other public place or building any act or thing which is an
obstruction or interference to the free and uninterrupted use of property
or with any business lawfully conducted by anyone in or upon or facing
or fronting on any such public street, public highway, public sidewalk,
or any other public place or building, all of which prevents the free
and uninterrupted ingress, egress and regress, therein, thereon and
thereto;
3.
Obstruct the entrance to any business establishment, without so doing
for some lawful purpose, if contrary to the expressed wish of the
owner, lessee, managing agent or person in control or charge of the
building or premises.
B.
As
used in this Section, PUBLIC PLACE shall be any place
to which the general public has access and a right of resort for business,
entertainment or other lawful purpose, but does not necessarily mean
a place devoted solely to the uses of the public. It shall also include
the front or immediate area of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern
or other place of business and also public grounds, areas or parks.
C.
Upon
any violation of this Section, a Police Officer or any Law Enforcement
Officer shall order such person or persons to cease causing or committing
such violation and to move on or disperse. Any person who fails or
refuses to obey such order shall then be deemed guilty of a violation
of this Section.
A.
For purposes of this Section, "house of worship" means any church,
synagogue, mosque, other building or structure, or public or private
place used for religious worship, religious instruction, or other
religious purpose.
B.
A person commits the offense of disrupting a house of worship if
such person:
1.
Intentionally and unreasonably disturbs, interrupts, or disquiets
any house of worship by using profane discourse, rude or indecent
behavior, or making noise either within the house of worship or so
near it as to disturb the order and solemnity of the worship services;
or
2.
Intentionally injures, intimidates, or interferes with or attempts
to injure, intimidate, or interfere with any person lawfully exercising
the right of religious freedom in or outside of a house of worship
or seeking access to a house of worship, whether by force, threat,
or physical obstruction.
[1]
Note: Under certain circumstances this offense can be a felony
under state law.
A.
A person commits the offense of unlawful funeral protest if he or
she pickets or engages in other protest activities within three hundred
(300) feet of any residence, cemetery, funeral home, church, synagogue
or other establishment during or within one (1) hour before or one
(1) hour after the conducting of any actual funeral or burial service
at that place.
B.
FUNERAL and BURIAL SERVICE
OTHER PROTEST ACTIVITIES
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following
terms mean:
The ceremonies and memorial services held in conjunction with the burial or cremation of the dead, but this Section does not apply to processions while they are in transit beyond any three-hundred-foot zone that is established under Subsection (A) above.
Any action that is disruptive or undertaken to disrupt or
disturb a funeral or burial service.
C.
The offense of unlawful funeral protest shall be an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 2007 §22-37; Rev. Ords. 1951 §22.510]
If any two (2) or more persons shall in any public place in
this City voluntarily or by agreement engage in any fight or use any
blows or violence towards each other in any angry or quarrelsome manner
or do each other any willful mischief; or if any person shall assault
another and strike him/her in any public place to the terror or disturbance
of others, the person or persons so offending shall be deemed guilty
of an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 2007 §22-40; Rev. Ords. 1951 §22.480]
Whoever shall within the City disturb or disquiet any congregation
or assembly of persons convened for religious worship by making any
noise or by loud talking, rude or indecent behavior or by profane
discourse within or about their place of worship or so near the place
as to disturb the order and solemnity of their meeting and whoever
shall in this City by loud or boisterous talking, rude or indecent
behavior or willfully extinguishing the lights in any hall or building
occupied by an audience or assemblage of persons or shall attempt
to disturb or break up the same shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance
violation.
[R.O. 2007 §22-9; Ord. No. 3857 §§1 — 2, 7-6-1971]
It shall, be unlawful for any person or persons to loiter on
the premises of any public school property in the City of Poplar Bluff
and it shall be unlawful for any person or persons so loitering to
fail or refuse to leave immediately from said school premises upon
the request of the principal or any other person in charge thereof.