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Editor's Note: Former §§ 573-1, Lewd and indecent behavior; 573-2, Offensive comments and language; and 573-3, Indecent representations, were repealed 12-10-2019 by Ord. No. MC-5232.
A. 
No person shall set up, keep, maintain or permit to be set up, kept or maintained in any house, room, hall, place of business or other premises any faro table, faro bank, roulette or any other device or game of chance for the purpose of gaming.
B. 
No person shall deal, play or engage in faro, roulette or other game of chance, either as banker, player, dealer or otherwise, for the purpose of gaming.
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Editor's Note: For related provisions, see Ch. 193, Arcades and Amusement Devices, and Ch. 410, Games of Chance.
A. 
No person shall keep or maintain a disorderly house or allow or permit any house, shop, store or other building or structure owned or occupied by such person to be used as a disorderly house.
B. 
No person shall resort to, frequent or be present in any house, shop, store or other building or structure which is a disorderly house.
C. 
For the purposes of this section, a "disorderly house" shall include, but not be limited to, a place where gambling or prostitution is engaged in or a place where the narcotic laws of this state are being violated or any other place where the law is being violated.
No person shall allow or permit his house, shop, tavern, store, place of business or other place connected therewith to be used, frequented or resorted to by riotous or disorderly persons, drunkards, prostitutes, gamblers, vagrants, common thieves, pickpockets, burglars or common beggars or suffer or permit such premises to become riotous or disorderly at any time either by day or night.
No persons shall congregate, lounge, loiter or gather in the corridors or entranceways of the City Hall building except in, on or about some lawful and necessary business or undertaking with the City or its officers or agents.
No person shall, by noisy or disorderly conduct, disturb or interfere with the quiet or good order of any place of assembly, public or private, including, but not limited to, any school, house of worship, library or reading room.
[Amended 9-14-2021 by Ord. No. MC-5353]
A. 
Assault of City official while in the performance of duties.
(1) 
No person shall attempt to cause bodily injury to any City official in the course of performing his or her official duties.
(2) 
No person shall purposely, knowingly or recklessly cause bodily injury to any City official in the course of performing his or her official duties.
(3) 
No person shall attempt by physical menace to put any City official in the course of performing his or her official duties in fear of imminent serious bodily injury.
(4) 
Penalty. Any person who violates any provision of this subsection shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or both.
B. 
Harassment of a City official while in the performance of duties.
(1) 
No person shall subject a City official while in the performance of his or her duties to striking, kicking, shoving or other offensive touching, or threaten to do so.
(2) 
No person shall engage in any other course of alarming conduct or of repeatedly committed acts with a City official while in the performance of his or her duties with the purpose to alarm or seriously annoy such City official.
(3) 
Penalty. Any person who violates any provision of this subsection shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $500 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 30 days, or both.
C. 
No person shall willfully or maliciously destroy, damage or injure or spoil or deface any real or personal property or appurtenance thereof belonging to the City or belonging to another person.
No person shall carelessly or recklessly drop, throw, cast, shoot or project any stick, stone, brick, missile, projectile or other object or thing of any kind whatsoever in a manner doing injury or likely or calculated to do injury to any person or property of any person.
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Editor's Note: For related provisions, see Ch. 352, Firearms.
No person shall knowingly give or cause to be given or sent a false fire alarm or a false police alarm.
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Editor's Note: For related provisions, see Ch. 177, Alarm Systems, and Ch. 363, Fire Prevention and Protection and Emergency Services Mitigation.
A. 
No person shall:
(1) 
Open or attempt to open any public fire hydrant.
(2) 
In any manner obstruct or prevent or interfere with free access to or tamper with or deface or mutilate or injure any public fire hydrant.
(3) 
Throw or deposit snow or ice against any public fire hydrant or so near to it as to interfere with ready access to the same for water supply.
(4) 
While owning or occupying premises in front of which a public fire hydrant is located, permit hedges, shrubbery and the like to grow against such fire hydrant or so near to it as to interfere with ready access to the same for water supply.
B. 
Nothing in this section shall be deemed to apply to the actions or conduct of a duly authorized agent or employee of the City or a member of the Fire Division while engaged in the performance of his duties in connection with such public fire hydrant.
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Editor's Note: For related provisions, see Ch. 363, Fire Prevention and Protection and Emergency Services Mitigation.
No person shall place pennies, coins or metals not specifically intended for the purpose in back of or reinforcing the fuses in any electrical cutout, cabinet box or switch box or panel in the City.
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Editor's Note: For related provisions, see Ch. 363, Fire Prevention and Protection and Emergency Services Mitigation.
[Amended 4-9-1987 by Ord. No. MC-2289; 9-14-2021 by Ord. No. MC-5353]
Unless otherwise specified above, any person who violates any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both.