[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Depew 12-27-1971 by L.L. No. 2-1971 as Ch. 65, Arts. I and III, of
the 1971 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall throw, propel or shoot any missile, or solid
object such as snowballs, stones, sticks, arrows or similar objects
upon, across or toward any street, sidewalk, highway, or other public
building or place in the Village so as to annoy, obstruct or interfere
with or injure any person or damage or strike any personal property
or building, public or private.
A.
No person shall discharge any firearm, gun, air rifle, spring gun,
or any gun so constructed as to discharge pellets by compressed air
or compressed gas within the Village limits, except that this section
shall not apply to police officers in the discharge of their duties
nor to any firing squad at a military funeral or patriotic observance
nor to any properly constructed range approved by the Chief of Police.
B.
Hunting within the Village limits shall be prohibited at all times.
No person shall indulge in disorderly or noisy or disturbing
conduct within the Village. Any person who commits any of the following
acts will be considered in violation of this section:
A.
Uses or indulges in offensive, disorderly, threatening, abusive or
insulting language, conduct or behavior.
B.
Acts in such manner as to annoy, disturb, interfere with, obstruct
or be offensive to others.
C.
Congregates with others on a public street, sidewalk, park or place
for other than a lawfully permitted purpose and refuses to move on
when ordered by the police.
D.
Stations himself on the public street, or follows pedestrians for
the purpose of soliciting alms or solicits alms on the public street,
unlawfully.
E.
Damages, destroys or makes improper or unauthorized use of any municipal
property, including parks, parking fields, or stadiums or conducts
himself in a manner contrary to any notices, rules or regulations
of the Village or refuses to obey the orders of any person or persons
in authority with respect to the use of or conduct in or with respect
to such property.
F.
Refuses to obey or resists any officer or employee of the Village
in the discharge of his official duty.
G.
Willfully obstructs any street, crossing or sidewalk or any passage
into any church, theater, restaurant, home or public place.
H.
Rings any bell, horn or races any motor unnecessarily or in such
a manner as to disturb the public.
A.
No person shall participate in any parade, demonstration, public
gathering or assemblage within the Village called or formed for the
purpose of inciting, advising or urging the use of violence, force
or the commission of any act in violation of law; or at which any
of such acts or things are advocated, advised, urged or committed.
B.
No person shall exhibit or display within the Village, any flag,
banner or device which is emblematic of any movement, plan or project
tending to disturb or aimed at disturbing the public peace or quiet,
or emblematic of any movement, plan or project aimed at causing the
overthrow of government by violence, force or any unlawful method.
No person shall appear or be upon any street, sidewalk, highway
or in any public hall, park or other public place in the Village under
the influence of alcohol, narcotics or other drugs.
A.
No person shall keep a house of ill fame, house of prostitution,
assignation house or let, lease or knowingly permit the use of a room
or rooms in any building in the Village for the purpose of prostitution,
or unlawful sexual intercourse, within the Village or shall in any
manner contribute to the support of any house or shall voluntarily
reside therein.
B.
No person shall permit his, her or their house, shop, or store or
other building within the Village to be used, frequented or resorted
to by notorious persons, gamblers, vagrants, prostitutes or other
persons of bad character.
C.
No person shall conduct himself in an indecent or obscene manner
or publicly exhibit or expose his or her person in any indecent or
obscene manner in or upon any street, sidewalk, lane, alley, park
or within or upon any other private or public place or building within
the Village.
D.
No person shall sell, expose or offer for sale, distribute, post
or give away within the Village any book, newspaper or any printed
sheet or paper which shall contain any indecent, obscene or immoral
picture, article or printed matter of any kind or which shall contain
any advertisement of any immoral, indecent or obscene book, printed
matter, picture or circular.[1]
[Added 8-19-1986 by L.L. No. 2-1986]
A.
MODEL AIRPLANE
Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
A winged vehicle of flight, heavier than air and propelled
by an engine using liquid fuel; being too small to carry human passengers
and controlled from the ground either by radio or wire.
B.
Prohibition.
C.
Penalties for offenses. Any person who shall violate any provision
of this section shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $250 or
by imprisonment of not more than 15 days, or by both such fine and
imprisonment.
[Amended 5-2-1994 by L.L. No. 1-1994]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be punished as provided in § 1-10 of this Code.
