For the purposes of Sections
210.210 and
210.215, 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.
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[Ord. No. 438, 6-19-2007]
A. Any person who shall do or engage in any of the following shall be
guilty of disorderly conduct and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor:
1.
Any person who shall act in a 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, and 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 the purpose 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 collect in bodies or in crowds, for any
unlawful purposes, as defined by current ordinances of the City.
8.
Any person who shall assemble or congregate with another or
others for the purpose of or with the intent to engage in gaming.
9.
Any person who shall frequent any public place with intent to
obtain money from another by an illegal and fraudulent scheme, trick,
artifice, or device.
10.
Any person who assembles with another or others for the 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.
11.
Any person who shall accost or attempt to force his/her company
upon any person or attempts to pick up any person against that person's
will.
12.
Any person who utters, while in a state of anger, in the presence
of another, any bawdy, lewd, or obscene words or epithets.
13.
Any person who frequents any place where gaming or the illegal
sale or possession of alcoholic beverages or narcotics or dangerous
drugs is practiced, allowed or tolerated.
14.
Any person who shall act in a dangerous manner toward others.
15.
Any person who shall use "fighting words" directed towards any
person who becomes outraged and thus creates turmoil.
16.
Any person who shall assemble or congregate with another or
others for the purpose of trouncing upon another.
17.
Any person who shall, by acts of violence, interfere with another's
pursuit of a lawful occupation.
18.
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 a Peace
Officer or other lawful authority.
B. Penalty. Any person convicted of violating any provision
of this Section shall be punished by a fine of not more than five
hundred dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment for not more than ninety
(90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
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.