As used in this Article, the following terms mean:
PRIVATE PROPERTY
Any place which at the time of the offense is not open to
the public. It includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place which at the time of the offense is open to the
public. It includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
A person commits the offense of unlawful assembly if he/she
knowingly assembles with six (6) or more other persons and agrees
with such persons to violate any of the criminal laws of this State
or of the United States with force or violence.
A person commits the offense of rioting if he/she knowingly
assembles with six (6) or more other persons and agrees with such
persons to violate any of the criminal laws of this State or of the
United States with force or violence and thereafter, while still so
assembled, does violate any of said laws with force or violence.
A person commits the offense of refusal to disperse if, being
present at the scene of an unlawful assembly or at the scene of a
riot, he/she knowingly fails or refuses to obey the lawful command
of a Law Enforcement Officer to depart from the scene of such unlawful
assembly or riot.
[R.O. 1994 § 205.050; Ord. No.
52 § 3(4), 4-3-1968]
A. No person in the City shall have the status or condition of a "vagrant."
The following persons shall be deemed vagrants:
1.
No Lawful Means Of Support. Any person having no lawful means
of employment and having no lawful means of support realized solely
from lawful occupations or sources; or, any person who lives idly
and without visible means of support.
2.
Loitering. Any person found loitering or strolling in, about,
or upon any street, alley or other public way or public place, or
at any public gathering or assembly, or in or around any store, shop,
or business or commercial establishment, or any private property or
place without lawful business and conducting himself/herself in a
lewd, wanton, or lascivious manner in speech or behavior.
3.
Burglars Tools. Any person upon whose person or in whose possession
shall be found any instrument, tool, or other implement for picking
locks or pockets, or any implement that is usually employed or that
reasonably may be inferred to have been designed to be employed in
the commission of any felony, misdemeanor other violation of any ordinance,
and who shall fail to account satisfactorily for the possession for
the same.
4.
Unlawful Occupancy. Any person wandering abroad and occupying,
lodging or sleeping in any vacant or unoccupied barn, garage, shed
shop, or other building or structure, or in any automobile, truck,
railroad car, or other vehicle, without owning the same or without
permission of the same, or sleeping in any vacant lot during the hours
of darkness and not giving a satisfactory account of himself/herself.
5.
Begging. Any person wandering abroad and begging; or any person
who goes about from door to door of private homes or commercial and
business establishments, or places himself/herself in or upon any
public way or public place to beg or receive alms for himself/herself.
6.
Abroad At Unusual Hours. Any person who wanders about the street,
alleys or other public ways or places, or who is found abroad at late
or unusual hours in the night without any visible or lawful business
and not giving a satisfactory account of himself/herself.
7.
Illegal Association. Any person who keeps, operates, frequents,
lives in, or is employed in any house or other establishment of ill
fame, or who (whether married or single) engages in or commits acts
of fornication or perversion for hire.
8.
Illegal Employment. Any person who frequents or loafs, loiters,
or idles, in or around or is the occupant of or is employed in any
gambling establishment where intoxicating liquor is sold without a
license.
9.
Fraudulent Schemes. Any person who shall engage in any fraudulent
scheme, device, or trick to obtain money or other valuable thing from
others; or any person who aids or assists such trick, device, or scheme.
10.
Concealing Stolen Property. Any person who keeps a place where
lost or stolen property is concealed.
11.
All persons who by the common law are vagrants, whether in any
of the foregoing classifications or note.
[R.O. 1994 § 205.060; Ord. No.
53 §§ 1 – 3, 5-28-1968]
A. Definitions. As used in this Section, the following terms shall have
these prescribed meanings:
PERSONS
Includes the singular and the plural and shall also mean
and include any person, firm, corporation, association, club, partnership,
society or any other form of association or organization.
SOUND AMPLIFYING EQUIPMENT
Any machine or device for the amplification of the human
voice, music or any other sound. "Sound amplifying equipment" as used
herein shall not be construed as including standard automobile radios
when used and heard only by occupants of the vehicle in which installed
or warning devices on authorized emergency vehicles or horns or other
warning devices on other vehicles used only for traffic safety purposes.
SOUND TRUCK
Any motor vehicle, or animal-drawn vehicle, or any vehicle
regardless of its means of propulsion, having mounted thereon, or
attached thereto, any sound amplifying equipment.
B. Commercial Advertising By Sound Truck Prohibited. No person shall
operate, or cause to be operated, any sound truck for commercial sound
advertising purposes in the City of Lake Ozark with sound amplifying
equipment in operation.
C. Penalties. Any person who violates any provision of this Section
shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00).
[R.O. 1994 § 205.105; Ord. No.
2013-03, 2-12-2013]
A. A person commits the offense of disorderly conduct if he/she knowingly
or recklessly:
1.
Uses abusive, offensive, indecent, profane or vulgar language
in a public place, and the language by its very utterance tends to
disturb the peace of another person, invoke or incite violence by
another person, or cause alarm or annoyance to another person;
2.
Makes an offensive gesture or display in a public place, and
the gesture or display tends to disturb the peace of another person,
invoke or incite violence by another person, or cause alarm or annoyance
to another person;
3.
Insults, taunts, challenges or threatens another person in a
public place under circumstances in which such conduct tends to disturb
the peace of another person, invoke or incite violence by another
person, or cause alarm or annoyance to another person;
4.
Engages in fighting, brawling or other violent, tumultuous or
threatening behavior with another person in a public place;
5.
Obstructs or hinders the movement of persons or vehicles on
any public street, road, highway, right-of-way, sidewalk or other
public way so as to interfere with the rights of others by an act
that serves no lawful or reasonable purpose;
6.
Creates a condition which presents a risk of physical harm or
injury to another person or to another person's property;
7.
Displays a firearm or other dangerous weapon in a public place
in a manner that tends to cause alarm to another person; or
8.
Without any lawful authority, disturbs any lawful assembly or
meeting of persons.
B. For purposes of this section, the phrase "public place" shall include
a public parking area on privately owned property, a common area of
an apartment building or dormitory, or a common area on a privately
owned commercial shopping center, mall, or other commercial establishment.