As used in this Article, the following terms mean:
PRIVATE PROPERTY
Any place which at the time of the offense is not open to
the public. It includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place which at the time of the offense is open to the
public. It includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
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.
[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.