[Code 1962 §21-7; CC 1979 §19-74; Ord. No. 973 §1, 10-4-1977; Ord.
No. 88-21 §2, 4-19-1988; Ord. No. 326-2008 §2, 4-1-2008]
A. A person
commits the offense of assault if:
1. The person attempts to cause or recklessly causes physical injury
to another person; or
2. With criminal negligence, the person causes physical injury to another
person by means of a deadly weapon; or
3. The person purposely places another person in apprehension of immediate
physical injury, and the person placing the other person in apprehension
of an injury and the immediacy of the injury is possible because of
the proximity to the person receiving the threat to the person or
persons who would carry out the threat; or
4. The person recklessly engages in conduct which creates a grave risk
of death or serious physical injury to another person; or
5. The person knowingly causes physical contact with another person
knowing the other person will regard the contact as offensive or provocative;
or
6. The person knowingly causes physical contact with an incapacitated
person, as defined in Section 475.010, RSMo., which a reasonable person
who is not incapacitated would consider offensive or provocative.
[CC 1979 §19-84; Ord.
No. 88-39, 9-20-1988; Ord. No. 395-2009 §1, 5-19-2009]
A. A person
commits the crime of harassment if he or she does any of the following:
1. Knowingly communicates a threat to commit any felony to another person
and in so doing frightens, intimidates, or causes emotional distress
to such person; or
2. When communicating with another person, knowingly uses coarse language
offensive to one of average sensibility and thereby puts such person
in reasonable apprehension of offensive physical contact or harm;
or
3. Knowingly frightens, intimidates, or causes emotional distress to
another person by anonymously making telephone call or any electronic
communication; or
4. Knowingly communicates with another person who is, or who purports
to be, seventeen (17) years of age or younger and in so doing and
without good cause recklessly frightens, intimidates, or causes emotional
distress to such other person; or
5. Knowingly makes repeated unwanted communication to another person;
or
6. Without good cause engages in any other act with the purpose to frighten,
intimidate, or cause emotional distress to another person, causes
such person to be frightened, intimidated, or emotionally distressed,
and such person's response to the act is one of a person of average
sensibilities considering the age of such person.
[Code 1962 §21-5; CC 1979 §19-96; Ord. No. 973 §1, 10-4-1977]
If any two (2) or more persons shall, in any public place in
this City, voluntarily, or by agreement, engage in any fight, or use
any blows or violence toward each other, in an angry or quarrelsome
manner, or do each other any mischief, or if any person shall assault
another, and strike him, in any place, to the terror or disturbance
of others therein, the persons so offending shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor.