[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Boonville 6-5-1899; 7-5-1950 (Ch. 52 of the 1971 Code). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Public consumption of alcohol — See Ch.
103.
Dog control — See Ch.
109, Art.
II.
Parks and swimming pools — See Ch.
266.
Peddling and soliciting — See Ch.
278.
Skateboards — See Ch.
317.
No person shall willfully disturb or annoy any lawful assembly,
collection of persons or organized meeting of any kind, or cause the
same to be done in any manner or by any means whatsoever; or disturb
or annoy the occupant of any house, store, building or place by knocking,
rattling on the door, window or gate thereof or in any other manner.
It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully harm, obstruct
or resist any officer of this Village while performing his duty as
such an officer, or to refuse or neglect to assist any officer of
the said Village in the execution of his duties when requested to
do so by such officer.
No person shall engage in fighting; challenge or provoke another
to fight; or threaten personal violence to another person; or use
to another, or in the hearing of another, any profane, indecent or
insulting language; or assist any fight; or engage in any cockfight
or other act tending to produce a breach of peace.
No person shall use profane, vulgar or obscene language in any
street or public place in the Village of Boonville.
No person shall appear in the streets or other public places
within the Village of Boonville in a state of intoxication.
It shall be unlawful for any person to expectorate upon the
floor or stairway of any public building or places, or upon the floor
of a motor vehicle or other vehicles intended for public use, or upon
any sidewalk.
No person shall make, aid, countenance or assist in making any
riot, noise, false alarm of fire, disturbance, disorder or improper
diversion in the streets or other public place within the Village
of Boonville, or loiter in or about doorways or stairways, or lounge
or loaf at street corners or on the sidewalks in said Village.
No person shall keep or assist in keeping any gambling house,
place or establishment, or any instrument or device for gaming; or,
at any such house, place or establishment, play or gamble for money,
liquor or any other article within the Village of Boonville.
No person shall keep or assist in keeping, or become an inmate
of or visit, any bawdy house or house of ill fame or of assignation
or for the resort of prostitutes, drunkards, tipplers, gamesters or
other disorderly persons within the Village of Boonville.
No male person, while in any public street, sidewalk or in any
public place or part thereof in the Village of Boonville, shall pay,
offer or give any offensive attentions to any female, or shall designedly
follow any female against her wishes, or shall make any insulting
or derogatory remarks to any female or concerning any female when
she is passing on any public street, sidewalk or in any public place
or part thereof in the Village.
No person shall indecently expose his person in the streets
or other public places, or swim or bathe in the Black River Canal
or Basin or other public waters within the Village of Boonville.
It shall be unlawful for any person to write, paint, print,
draw, cut or place in or upon any building, post, fence, walk, bridge,
sign or other object exposed to public view in the Village of Boonville
any indecent or obscene mark, figure, words, character, image, design;
or aid or advise in doing so.
No person shall willfully and maliciously break, mar, injure,
remove or deface any building, fence, awning, sign, signboard, tree,
shrubbery or other ornamental thing in the Village of Boonville, or
remove from or pile up before any door or on any sidewalk or street,
boxes, gates, steps, casks or other things, or tear down any handbills
lawfully posted, or incite dogs to fight in any of the streets or
public places in said Village.
No person shall break, injure or deface any public building
or structure or any fence enclosing the public parks in the Village
of Boonville, nor in any manner deface or injure any of the trees
or shrubs therein, or in any of the streets or lanes fasten any horse
thereto or any part of the protection about the same, or injure or
deface any of the public property belonging to said Village, or post
bills thereon or on any electric light, telegraph or telephone pole
erected within said Village.
No person shall throw a snowball or snowballs on the streets,
highways or public places of this Village.
[Amended 12-29-1971]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall
be punished, upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding $250 for each
violation. In addition, each violation of this chapter shall constitute
disorderly conduct, and each person violating the same shall be a
disorderly person. Each day that a violation or failure to comply
with any provision of this chapter or any regulation promulgated hereunder
by the Board of Trustees occurs shall constitute a separate and distinct
violation.