[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Oneida 12-21-1982
as Secs. 4-17-5, 4-17-6, 4-17-7 and 4-17-11 of the 1982 Code. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
A.
No person shall write, make, draw or paint any writing,
printing, picture, marks or device of any kind on any sidewalk, tree or shrubs,
curb, pavement, street, lamppost, electric light pole, bandstand, bench, public
fixture, structure or building in this city or stick, fasten or post any placard,
bill or paper thereon. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to forbid
the posting or affixing of notices required by law.
B.
No person shall injure, deface or tarnish any public
building or any property belonging to the city, in any manner whatever, or
shall wantonly or willfully injure, cut, deface, tarnish or smear any wall,
pump, hydrant, fountain, aqueduct or reservoir, bridge, fence, railing, house
or outhouse, or any part thereof, external or internal, nor any useful or
ornamental structure or any shade tree or shrub within the city.
Any person found loitering in any of the streets, alleys, parks or public
places in the corporation tax district, or loitering or concealed in the stairway
or hall of any building without any apparent lawful purpose or business, and
who neglects or refuses to move on at the request of any policeman or police
officer, if in a street, alley, park or other public place, or to leave at
the request of any peace officer, or the owner or occupant of the building
if so found in a stairway or hall, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
A.
No person shall maintain or permit to exist upon premises
owned or occupied by such person any unprotected hole or excavation which
does or may constitute a hazard to persons, and particularly young children,
who may come upon such premises, whether legally or as trespassers.
B.
An unprotected hole or excavation is one which is not
covered or which is not adequately fenced and is greater than one foot in
depth.
C.
This section shall not apply to holes or excavations
made during the course of any work or construction left uncovered or unfenced
during the period reasonably required to perform such work or construction.
No person shall stop or divert the course of any drain or sewer.
[Added 3-20-1996 by L.L.
No. 2-1996]
A.
Any person who knowingly or intentionally, in a public
place, engages in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse, as defined
in the Penal Law, or appears in a state of nudity or fondles the genitals
of himself or another person thereby commits public indecency, punishable
as a Class A misdemeanor.
B.
"Nudity" shall mean the showing of the human male or
female genitals, pubic area or buttocks with less than a fully opaque covering,
the showing of a female breast with less than a fully opaque covering of any
part of the areola, or the showing of covered male genitals in a discernibly
turgid state. Excluded from this definition of nudity, however, shall be the
breast-feeding of infants, but the definition shall apply to any person entertaining
or performing in a play, exhibition, show or entertainment.[1]
C.
A person who, in a place other than a public place, with
intent to be seen by persons other than invitees and occupants of that place,
engages in sexual intercourse or engages in deviate sexual conduct or fondles
the genitals of himself or another person where he or she can be seen by persons
other than invitees and occupants of that place commits indecent exposure,
punishable as a Class A misdemeanor.
