[Ord. No. 195 §1(200.300), 11-19-2003]
A. Any
person who shall do or engage in any of the following shall be guilty
of the offense of disorderly conduct:
1. Any person who shall act in a violent or tumultuous manner toward
another whereby any person is placed in danger of safety of his/her
life;
2. Any person who shall act in a violent or tumultuous manner toward
another, whereby public property or property of any other person is
placed in danger of being destroyed or damaged;
3. Any person who shall endanger lawful pursuits of another by acts
of violence or threats of bodily harm;
4. Any person who shall cause, provoke or engage in any fight, brawl
or riotous conduct so as to endanger the life, limb, health or property
of another or public property;
5. Any person who shall assemble or congregate with another or others
and cause, provoke or engage in any fight or brawl;
6. Any person who shall assemble in bodies or in crowds and engage in
unlawful activities;
7. Any person who shall frequent any public place or who assembles with
another or others to obtain money or other valuable item from another
by an illegal and fraudulent scheme, trick, artifice or device or
attempt to do so;
8. Any person who utters, in a public place or any place open to the
public, any obscene words or epithets;
9. Any person who shall use fight provoking words directed towards any
person who becomes outraged and thus creates turmoil;
10. Any person who shall assemble or congregate with another or others
and do bodily harm to another;
11. Any person who shall, by acts of violence, interfere with another's
pursuit of a lawful occupation;
12. Any person who shall congregate with another or others in or on any
public way so as to halt the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic
and refuses to clear such public way when ordered to do so by a Peace
Officer or other person having authority;
13. Any person who damages, befouls or disturbs public property or the
property of another so as to create a hazardous, unhealthy or physically
offensive condition.
[Ord. No. 195 §1(200.320), 11-19-2003]
A person commits the offense of keeping a disorderly premises
if he/she shall permit, allow or encourage any peace disturbance,
as defined in this Chapter, to occur or continue on premises owned
or controlled by him/her.
For the purposes of Sections
210.210 and
210.215, the following words shall have the meanings set out herein:
PRIVATE PROPERTY
Any place which at the time is not open to the public. It
includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place which at the time is open to the public. It includes
property which is owned publicly or privately.
If a building or structure is divided into separately occupied
units, such units are separate premises.
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[Ord. No. 195 §1(200.330), 11-19-2003]
A. A person
violates this Section of unlawful assembly if two (2) or more persons
assemble together in the City with the intent, or being assembled
to agree mutually to assist one another, to do any unlawful act, with
force or violence, against the person or property of another or against
the peace or to the terror of the people as follows:
1. Business: A place, where service or items are offered
for sale or orders taken, which has parking facilities for vehicles.
It shall be comprised of the entire premises, including parking lots
and areas for ingress and egress.
2. Commercial establishment: Any building and the grounds
used therewith or any tract of land where services are offered to
the public for a consideration or things are sold or are offered for
sale or orders are taken for the sale thereof to the public.
3. Transacting business: Engaging in a transaction
with the proprietor, agents or employees of the business which transaction
is normally incidental to the business for which the public is invited
and for which the premises are licensed.
B. This
Section applies to congregating at commercial establishments generally.
1. Prohibited. It shall be unlawful for persons to
intentionally congregate upon the grounds or within the buildings
of a commercial establishment or upon public ways immediately adjacent
thereto so as to block the aisles, doorways or other passageways into,
out of or through the grounds or buildings of such commercial establishment.
No persons shall congregate in crowds of two (2) or more outside vehicles
on business premises when such persons are not transacting business
on the premises.
2. Presumption of intent to congregate unlawfully. If
any persons shall be congregated so as to block the aisles, doorways
or other passageways into, out of or through such grounds or buildings
and they shall be ordered by the manager or other person in charge
of such commercial establishment to leave and they shall fail or refuse
to do so, it shall be prima facie proof of their intent to unlawfully
congregate under the provisions of this Section.
C. This
Section applies to remaining on closed parking lots.
1. Prohibited. No person, except the owner, tenant
or other person in possession or their invitees, shall be upon any
public or private parking lot, nor upon any parking lot provided for
the customers, business invitees or employees of any commercial or
industrial establishment at any time any such public or private parking
lot shall be closed to use by the public or any such commercial or
industrial lot shall be closed to use by customers, business invitees
and employees.
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.