For the purposes of Sections
210.200 and
210.210, the following words shall have the meanings set out herein:
PRIVATE PROPERTY
Any place which at the time is not open to the public. It
includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place which at the time is open to the public. It includes
property which is owned publicly or privately.
If a building or structure is divided into separately occupied
units, such units are separate premises.
[Ord. No. 144, 2-13-1989]
A. Any
person who, with intent to provoke a breach of the peace or whereby
a breach of the peace may be occasioned, commits any of the following
acts shall be deemed to have committed the offense of disorderly conduct:
1. Uses offensive, disorderly, threatening, abusive or insulting language,
conduct or behavior.
2. Acts in such a manner as to annoy, disturb, interfere with, obstruct
or be offensive to others or to any lawful assemblage.
3. Congregates with others on a public street and refuses to move on
when ordered by the Police.
4. By his/her actions causes a crowd to collect, except when lawfully
addressing a crowd.
5. Shouts or makes a noise either outside or inside a building during
the nighttime to the annoyance or disturbance of any considerable
number of persons.
6. Wanders, prowl or loiters upon the private property of another in
the nighttime and peeks or peers in the door or window of any building
or structure located thereon which is inhabited by human beings without
any visible or lawful business with the owners or occupants thereof.
7. Knowing the same to be false, circulates or transmits to another
or others, with intent that it be acted upon, any statement or rumor,
written, printed or by word of mouth, concerning the location of a
bomb or other explosive.
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.