[Ord. No. 51-1969]
The following terms as used in this chapter shall have the following
meanings:
OBSTRUCTS
To render impassable without unreasonable inconvenience or
hazard.
PUBLIC
Affecting or likely to affect persons in a place to which
the public or a substantial group has access, including but not limited
to highways, transport facilities, schools, apartment houses, places
of business, places of amusement or any neighborhood.
[Ord. No. 51-1969]
Conduct is prohibited if, with intent to cause public inconvenience,
annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, a person:
A. Engages in fighting or threatening or in violent or tumultuous behavior.
B. Makes unreasonable noise or offensive coarse or lewd utterances,
gesture(s) or displays, or addresses abusive or lewd language to any
person present.
C. Creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act
which serves no legitimate purpose to the actor.
D. Appears in any public place manifestly under the influence of alcohol,
narcotics or other drug(s), not therapeutically administered, to the
degree such person may endanger himself or herself or other persons
or property or annoy persons in his or her vicinity.
E. Having no legal privilege to do so, intentionally or recklessly obstructs
any highway or other public passage, whether alone or with others.
No person shall be guilty of violating this subsection solely because
people have gathered to hear such person speak or otherwise communicate
or because such person is a member of such gathering.
F. Refuses to obey a reasonable official request or order to move:
(1)
To prevent obstruction of a highway, sidewalk or other public
passage.
(2)
To maintain public safety by dispersing those gathered in dangerous
proximity to a fire or other hazard.
Ord. No. 69-1939
The operation for advertising purposes along, upon or over any
public highway of the City of any radio, amplifier, loudspeaker, or
other mechanical or electrical sound-producing instrument or device,
whether installed on any automobile, sound truck, vehicle, or otherwise
operated howsoever, is declared to be a public nuisance and is prohibited.
[Ord. No. 15-1977]
Any person who violates the provisions of this chapter after receiving one warning shall be subject to Chapter
3-399, Penalty, of these Codified Ordinances.