[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Louisa 5-28-1981 as Ch. 13 of the 1981 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
If any person shall, in the presence or hearing of another, curse or abuse such other person or use any violent abusive language to such person concerning himself or any of his relations or otherwise use such language under circumstances reasonably calculated to provoke a breach of the peace, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500.
It shall be unlawful for any person to post, stick or fasten any card, poster or advertisement upon any building, premises, wall, fence, post or pole without having first secured the permission of the owner of such property, premises, wall, fence, post or pole.
It shall be unlawful for any person to tear down any advertisement or poster put up with the consent of the owner of the property whereupon the same is posted or to alter or mutilate the same.
Any person who, without just cause therefor, calls or summons, by telephone or otherwise, any ambulance or firefighting apparatus or any person who maliciously activates a manual or automatic fire alarm in any building used for public assembly or for other public use, including, but not limited to, schools, theaters, stores, office buildings, shopping centers and malls, coliseums and arenas, regardless of whether fire apparatus responds or not, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Any person who shall commit a simple assault or assault and battery shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment in jail for not more than 12 months, or both such fine and imprisonment.
Every person who attempts to commit an offense which is a violation or misdemeanor under the provisions of this Code or other ordinance of the Town shall be punishable by the same punishment for the offense, the commission of which was the object of the attempt. In no event shall the punishment for an attempt to commit an offense exceed the maximum punishment had the offense been committed.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
It shall be unlawful for any person to beg upon the streets of the Town or to remain on the streets of the Town for the purpose of begging; provided, however, that this shall not be construed to prevent the representative of a charitable, patriotic, religious, etc., organization from soliciting funds for charitable, patriotic, religious, etc., purposes.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person 17 years of age and under to be or remain upon any street or alley or other public place within the Town or to be in or about any motor vehicle in or upon any street or alley within the Town, whether such vehicle shall be parked or in motion, between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m. unless such person is accompanied by a parent or guardian or other person having custody of such minor or unless such person is in lawful employment making it necessary to be in such places during such hours.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for anyone having the legal care and custody of any person as described above to allow or permit such person to go or be upon any public street, alley or other public place within the Town in the nighttime as restricted in Subsection A except in case of necessity.
C. 
Every member of the police force of the Town is hereby authorized to detain any such minor willfully violating the provisions of Subsection A of this section until the parent or guardian of the child shall take him or her into custody, but such officer shall immediately upon taking custody of the child communicate with the parent or guardian.
D. 
Any person convicted of violating this section shall be fined not more than $25 for the first offense and not more than $100 for succeeding convictions.
A person shall be guilty of disorderly conduct if with the intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm or recklessly creating a risk thereof he willfully or being intoxicated, whether willfully or not, disrupts any meeting of any school, literary society or place of religious worship, if such disruption prevents or interferes with the orderly conduct of such meeting or has a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the person or persons at whom, individually, such disruption is directed, and, upon conviction of this offense, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or confinement in jail not exceeding 12 months, or both.
It shall be unlawful for any person to be in an intoxicated condition upon any street or sidewalk or in any public place or building within the Town and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $100.
A. 
No person shall spit, expectorate or deposit any sputum, saliva, mucus or any form of saliva or sputum upon the floor or stairways or upon any part of any public building or place where the public assembles or upon the floor of any part of any public conveyance or upon any sidewalk abutting on any public street, alley or lane of the Town.
B. 
Any person violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $100.
If any person willfully discharges or causes to be discharged any firearm in any street in the Town or in any place of public business or place of public gathering, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable as provided in § 1-6, General penalty, of this Code, provided, that this section shall not apply to any law enforcement officer in the performance of his official duties nor to any other person whose said willful act is otherwise justifiable or excusable at law in the protection of his life or property or is otherwise specifically authorized by law.
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Editor's Note: Former § 113-13 of the 1991 Code, Going-out-of-business sales, which immediately followed this section, was repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
It shall be unlawful for any child over 12 years of age to engage in, participate in or actively encourage within the corporate limits of the Town the practice of trick-or-treat on Halloween night. Children 12 years of age or younger may practice trick-or-treat in the Town and may be accompanied by a parent or guardian, but no person shall engage in trick-or-treat after the hour of 9:00 p.m.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to discard, abandon, leave or allow to remain in any place any icebox, refrigerator or other container, device or equipment of any kind with an interior storage area of more than two cubic feet of clear space which is airtight without first removing the door or doors or hinges from such icebox, refrigerator, container, device or equipment.
B. 
This section shall not apply to any icebox, refrigerator, container, device or equipment which is being used for the purpose for which it was originally designed or is being used for display purposes by any retail or wholesale merchant or is crated, strapped or locked to such an extent that it is impossible for a child to obtain access to any airtight compartment thereof.
C. 
Any violation of the provisions of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $500.
A. 
No person or aggregation of persons shall assemble so as to obstruct the public streets, sidewalks, alleys, public places and public buildings, places of amusement and entertainment, vacant lots and any other public grounds or privately owned property opened to the public in the Town or sit, stand or lounge in or around the aforementioned places or in the entranceways of churches, private homes or places of business so as to annoy the owners or occupants or interfere with the use of the building or to cause the annoyance or disturbance of the citizens of the Town or any other person rightfully within the confines of the Town.
B. 
Persons loitering, sitting or standing on any street, sidewalk and aforementioned places shall move on or separate when required to do so by any authorized law enforcement officer and shall cease to occupy such position.
Every person who intentionally makes an obscene display or exposure of his person or the private parts thereof in any public place or in any place where others are present or procures another to so expose himself shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
It shall be unlawful for any person to resist, intimidate or interfere with or to attempt to resist, intimidate or interfere with any policeman, fireman or officer or employee of the Town in the performance of his duties.
If any person, on being required by any police officer of the Town, shall refuse or neglect to assist him in the execution of his office in a criminal case; in the preservation of the peace; in the apprehending or securing of any person for a breach of the peace; or in any case of escape or rescue, he shall be confined in jail not exceeding six months and be fined not exceeding $500, either or both.
No person shall, on any street, sidewalk or other public place within the limits of the Town, profanely curse or swear. Any violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $100.
It shall be unlawful for any person to damage, deface, injure or destroy any public property.
It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to remove or displace or to advise removal or displacing of any street sign, fire hydrant or monument marking street lines or the Town boundaries or any cornerstone or post marking the corner of any street or sidewalk.
It shall be unlawful for any person to tamper or interfere with, mutilate, injure or deface any property not his own for sport or otherwise.
The maximum rate of speed at which railroad locomotives may be moved within the Town is 30 miles an hour.
If any person shall, without authority of law, go upon or remain upon the lands, buildings or premises of another or any part, portion or area thereof after having been forbidden to do so, either orally or in writing, by the owner, lessee, custodian or other person lawfully in charge thereof or after having been forbidden to do so by a sign or signs posted on such lands, buildings, premises or any part, portion or area thereof at a place or places where it or they may be reasonably seen, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable as provided in § 1-6, General penalty.
If any person shall solicit, urge, encourage, exhort, instigate or procure another or others to go upon or remain upon the lands, building or premises of another or any part, portion or area thereof knowing such other person or persons to have been forbidden, either orally or in writing, to do so by the owner, lessee, custodian or other person lawfully in charge thereof or knowing such other person or persons to have been forbidden to do so by a sign or signs posted on such lands, buildings, premises or part, portion or area thereof at a place or places where it or they may reasonably be seen or if any person shall on such lands, buildings, premises or part, portion or area thereof prevent or seek to prevent the owner, lessee, custodian, person in charge or any of his employees from rendering service to any person or persons not so forbidden, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable as provided in § 1-6, General penalty.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to enter the land, dwelling, outhouse or any other building of another for the purpose of damaging such property or any of the contents thereof or in any manner to interfere with the rights of the owner, user or the occupant thereof to use such property free from interference.
B. 
Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of misdemeanor punishable as provided in § 1-6, General penalty.
It shall be unlawful for any person, without the consent of some person authorized to give consent, to go or enter upon, in the nighttime, the premises or property of any church or upon any school property for any purpose other than to attend a meeting or service held or conducted in such church or school property. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than $100.
No person shall urinate upon the floor or stairways or upon any part of any public building or place where the public assembles or upon the floor of any part of any public conveyance or upon any sidewalk, street, alley or lane of the Town.
Any person who shall individually or in association with one or more others willfully break, injure, tamper with or remove any part of any vehicle or boat for the purpose of injuring, defacing or destroying such vehicle or boat or temporarily or permanently preventing its useful operation or for any purpose against the will or without the consent of the owner of such vehicle or boat or who shall in any other manner willfully or maliciously interfere with or prevent the running or operation of such vehicle or boat shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable as provided in § 1-6, General penalty.
Any person who shall, without the consent of the owner or person in charge of a vehicle, locomotive or other rolling stock of a railroad, climb into or upon such vehicle, locomotive or other rolling stock of a railroad with the intent to commit any crime, malicious mischief or injury thereto or who, while a vehicle, locomotive or other rolling stock of a railroad is at rest and unattended, shall attempt to manipulate any of the levers and starting crank or other device, brakes or mechanism thereof or to set such vehicle, locomotive or other rolling stock of a railroad in motion with the intent to commit any crime, malicious mischief or injury thereto shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable as provided in § 1-6, General penalty, except that the foregoing provision shall not apply when any such act is done in an emergency or in furtherance of public safety or by or under the direction of an officer in the regulation of traffic or performance of any other official duty.
The provisions of §§ 113-30 and 113-31 shall not apply to a bona fide repossession of a vehicle or boat by the holder of a lien on such vehicle or boat or by agents or employees of such lien holder.
A. 
If any person carries about his person, hid from common observation, any pistol or any other firearm or weapon designed or intended to propel a missile of any kind, a dirk, bowie knife, switchblade knife, razor, slingshot, metal knucks or any weapon of like kind or nun chahka or any other similar flailing instrument consisting of two or more rigid parts connected in such a manner as to allow them to swing freely, which instrument may also be known as a "nunchuck" or "nunchaku" or a shuriken, fighting chain or any weapon of like kind, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable as provided in § 1-6, General penalty, and such weapon shall be forfeited to the Town as may be seized by an officer as forfeited, and such as may be needed for police officers, conservators of the peace and the division of consolidated laboratory services shall be devoted to that purpose, and the remainder shall be destroyed by the officer having them in charge.
B. 
This section shall not apply to any police officers, sergeants, sheriffs, officers or guards of the penitentiary or other institutions or camps of the state corrections system, to conservators of the peace other than notaries public, to carriers of United States mail in the rural districts while in the discharge of their official duties or to any person while in his own place of abode.
C. 
Any circuit court, upon a written application and satisfactory proof of the good character and necessity of the applicant to carry concealed weapons, may grant permission so to do for one year. The order granting such permission shall be entered in the law order book of such court.
If any person sells, barters, gives or furnishes or causes to be sold, bartered, given or furnished to any minor a pistol, dirk, switchblade knife or bowie knife, having good cause to believe him to be a minor, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $100.
If any person sells or barters or exhibits for sale or for barter or gives or furnishes or causes to be sold, bartered, given or furnished or has in his possession or under his control, with the intent of selling, bartering, giving or furnishing, any blackjack, brass or metal knucks, switchblade knife or like weapons, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $100. The having in one's possession of any such weapon shall be prima facie evidence, except in the case of a conservator of the peace, of his intent to sell, barter, give or furnish the same.
A. 
Persons owning or occupying any land within the Town on which there is a well having a diameter greater than six inches and which is more than 10 feet deep shall keep the same covered in such a manner as not to be dangerous to human beings, animals or fowl. Construction, installation and maintenance of such covers, including the manner in which any concrete used in connection therewith shall be reinforced, shall be in conformity with the provisions of the Uniform Statewide Building Code.
B. 
Any person convicted of a violation of the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500.
[Added 6-18-1991 by Ord. No. 1991-1]
Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, any person, firm or corporation committing an offense against any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable as provided in § 1-6, General penalty, of the Code of the Town of Louisa.