[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Quincy 5-17-1993 as Ch. 9.08 and § 9.12.040 of the 1993 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Alarm systems — See Ch. 105.
Alcoholic beverages — See Ch. 109.
Animals — See Ch. 113.
Drugs — See Ch. 134.
Public entertainment — See Ch. 138.
Public meetings — See Ch. 205.
Minors — See Ch. 208.
Noise — See Ch. 215.
Peddling and soliciting — See Ch. 234.
Sex offenders — See Ch. 274.
Smoking — See Ch. 288, Art. I.
No person shall throw stones, snowballs or other missiles in or across any street or public grounds in the City.
No person shall shoot with or use an air gun, bow and arrow or sling in the City.
No person shall fire or discharge a cannon, gun or other firearm within the limits of the City, except at an historical occasion or military exercise or review authorized by the military authority of the commonwealth or by the City Council or Mayor of the City, or in lawful defense of a person, family or property of any citizen, or in the performance of any duty required by law; provided, however, that this prohibition shall not apply to persons engaged in trap or target shooting on the grounds of a gun club licensed to be used for such purposes by the licensing authorities of the City, nor to persons licensed for hunting under the laws of the commonwealth while hunting wild game with a shotgun.
No person shall expose himself in swimming or bathing in any of the ponds, streams or waters within the limits of the City, in view of spectators from any street, public grounds, dwelling house, land or water vehicle, unless properly clothed.
A. 
No person shall behave himself in a rude or disorderly manner, nor use indecent, offensive, profane, loud, boisterous or abusive language in any street, public place or public building in the City, nor be or remain upon any doorstep or other projection from any such building, or at any window thereof, nor in any public hall or entrance thereto, and by such disorderly or offensive act or speech cause the annoyance or disturbance of any person or persons.
B. 
No person, with purpose to annoy or alarm, or recklessly create a risk thereof, or cause public inconvenience in any street, public place or public building in the City, shall:
(1) 
Engage in fighting or threatening or in violent or tumultuous behavior;
(2) 
Make an unreasonably noisy or offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display or address abusive language to any person present; or
(3) 
Create a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of the actor.
C. 
Violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine of $200 per offense.
[Amended 6-1-2020 by Order No. 2020-012]
A. 
No person shall accost or annoy persons, or disturb the peace, or loiter or address another person with profane or obscene language in any public park, public reservation or City-owned land in the City.
B. 
The penalty for violation of this section shall be $200 per offense.
[Amended 6-1-2020 by Order No. 2020-012]
No person, except an officer of the law in the performance of his duties, shall enter upon the premises of another or upon any public property with intention of peeping into the windows of a house or other building or of spying in any manner upon any person therein.[1]
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Editor's Note: Original §§ 9.08.080 and 9.08.090, which immediately followed this section and dealt with noise, were repealed 6-7-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-114. See now Ch. 215, Noise.
No person shall make, write, print or post any indecent or obscene marks, words, figures or signs upon any fence, building post, tree or other object exposed to public view.