[Amended 11-10-1997 by Ord. No. 97-16]
A person is guilty of disorderly practice if
in a public place with purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance
or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he:
A. Engages in fighting or threatening or in violent or
tumultuous behavior.
B. Makes unreasonable noise or offensively coarse utterance,
gesture or display or addresses abusive language to any person present.
C. Creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition
by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of the actor.
D. Appears in any public place manifestly under the influence
of alcohol, narcotics or other drug, not therapeutically administered,
to the degree that he may endanger himself or other persons or property,
or annoy persons in his vicinity.
E. Having no legal privilege to do so, purposely or recklessly
obstructs any highway, street, alley, thoroughfare, sidewalk or public
ground of the Township, whether alone or with others, except that
no person shall be guilty of violating this subsection solely because
of a gathering of persons to hear him speak or otherwise communicate,
or solely because of being a member of such a gathering.
F. Refuses to obey a reasonable official request or order
to move:
(1) To prevent obstruction of a highway, street, alley,
thoroughfare, sidewalk or other public passage.
(2) To maintain public safety by dispersing those gathered
in dangerous proximity to a fire or other hazard.
Any person who violates any provision of this
chapter shall be fined not less than $25 and not more than $300 and
costs of prosecution or, in default of the payment of such fines and
costs, shall be imprisoned not more than 30 days.