As used in this Article, the following terms mean:
Any place which at the time of the offense is not open to
the public. It includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
Any property in which the person does not have a possessory
interest.
Any place which at the time of the offense is open to the
public. It includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
A.
A person commits the offense of peace disturbance if he or she:
1.
Unreasonably and knowingly disturbs or alarms another person
or persons by:
a.
Loud noise; or
b.
Offensive language addressed in a face-to-face manner to a specific
individual and uttered under circumstances which are likely to produce
an immediate violent response from a reasonable recipient; or
c.
Threatening to commit a felonious act against any person under
circumstances which are likely to cause a reasonable person to fear
that such threat may be carried out; or
d.
Fighting; or
e.
Creating a noxious and offensive odor.
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.
A.
It
shall be unlawful for any person to create any unreasonably loud,
disturbing or unnecessary noise within the City limits of Strafford,
Missouri. Act constituting prohibited noises shall include but not
necessarily be limited to, the following:
1.
The sounding of any horn or signal device on any vehicle for a prolonged
or unreasonable period of time.
2.
The playing of any radio, phonograph or musical instrument at such
a volume as to annoy or disturb persons in any building or residence
or in any public place.
3.
Yelling, shouting, whistling or singing on the public streets at
a time or place so as to annoy or disturb the quiet and peacefulness
of persons in the vicinity, both residence and business districts.
4.
The keeping of any animal or fowl which causes frequent or long continued
noise to such an extent that it disturbs the quiet and peacefulness
of persons in the vicinity.
5.
The use of any motor vehicle which creates loud and unnecessary noise.
6.
The discharging into the open air of exhaust of any engine except
through a muffler or other device calculated to decrease the volume
of the combustion thereof.
7.
The unreasonable and unnecessary and prolonged blowing of any steam
whistle.
A.
Any
person who shall do or engage in any of the following shall be guilty
of disorderly conduct:
1.
Any person who shall act in violent or tumultuous manner toward another
whereby any person is placed in fear of safety of his/her life, limb
or health;
2.
Any person who shall act in a violent or tumultuous manner toward
another whereby property of any person is placed in danger of being
destroyed or damaged;
3.
Any person who shall endanger lawful pursuits of another by acts
of violence, angry threats or abusive conduct;
4.
Any person who shall cause, provoke or engage in any fight, brawl
or riotous conduct so as to endanger life, limb, health or property
of another;
5.
Any person who shall assemble or congregate with another or others
for purposes of causing, provoking or engaging in any fight or brawl;
6.
Any person who shall be found jostling or roughly crowding or pushing
any person in any public place;
7.
Any person who shall assembly or congregate with another or others
for the purpose or with intent to engage in gaming:
8.
Any person who shall frequent any public place with intent to obtain
money from other persons by illegal and fraudulent schemes, tricks,
artifices or devises;
9.
Any person who assembles with another or others for purpose of engaging
in any fraudulent scheme, device or trick to obtain any valuable thing
in any place or from any person in the City or who shall aid or abet
therein;
10.
Any person who utters, while in a state of anger in the presence
of another, any bawdy, lewd or obscene words or epithets;
11.
Any person who frequents any place where gaming or illegal sale or
possession of alcoholic beverages or controlled substances is practiced,
allowed or tolerated;
12.
Any person who shall use fight-provoking words directed towards any
person who becomes outraged and thus creates turmoil;
13.
Any person who shall assembly or congregate with another or others
for the purpose of trouncing upon another;
14.
Any person who shall by acts of violence interfere with another's
pursuit of a lawful occupation;
15.
Any person who shall congregate with another or others in or on any
public way so as to halt the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic
and refuses to clear such public way when ordered by City Police or
other lawful authority.
A.
A person commits the offense of unlawful funeral protest if he or
she pickets or engages in other protest activities within three hundred
(300) feet of any residence, cemetery, funeral home, church, synagogue
or other establishment during or within one (1) hour before or one
(1) hour after the conducting of any actual funeral or burial service
at that place.
B.
OTHER PROTEST ACTIVITIES
FUNERAL and BURIAL SERVICE
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following
terms mean:
Any action that is disruptive or undertaken to disrupt or
disturb a funeral or burial service.
The ceremonies and memorial services held in conjunction with the burial or cremation of the dead, but this Section does not apply to processions while they are in transit beyond any three-hundred-foot zone that is established under Subsection (A) above.
C.
The offense of unlawful funeral protest shall be an ordinance violation.
It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter on the grounds
of or within the buildings of any public kindergarten, grade or high
school when such school is in session and it shall be unlawful for
any person so loitering to refuse to leave immediately upon the request
of the Principal or other person in charge thereof. It shall be further
unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle in a careless and
imprudent manner upon such school grounds or property, including the
parking lot and driveways thereof.
