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.
No person shall knowingly give or cause to be given or sent
a false fire alarm or a false police alarm.
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.
[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.