It is the purpose of this article to protect the public interest,
welfare, health and safety within the Village of Akron by prohibiting
dangerous, offensive and disorderly conduct, and to provide local
penalties for violation of the same.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place to which the public or substantial group of persons
has access, including, but not limited to, any highway, street, alley,
sidewalk, parking area or lot, park or playground, public building,
transportation facility, school, place of amusement, and hallways,
lobbies, or other portions of apartment houses or hotels not constituting
rooms or apartments designed for actual residence or any other public
facility or ground, whether vacant or improved, within the geographical
boundaries of the Village of Akron.
A person is guilty of disorderly conduct as follows:
A. He engages in, facilitates, or participates in conduct in a public
place which tends to disturb the peace in the Village or tends to
disrupt or disturb any meeting or lawful assemblage therein as follows:
by creating unreasonable loud or disturbing noises; by fighting or
engaging in riotous, violent or threatening behavior; by using obscene
or abusive language or gestures in public; by congregating with other
persons in a public place and refusing to comply with a lawful order
of the police to disperse; by obstructing vehicular or pedestrian
traffic; or by creating a hazardous or physically offensive condition
by any act that serves no legitimate purpose.
B. He trespasses or enters upon any private property without the consent
or invitation, express or implied, of the property owner, or damages
any Village property or enters upon any grass plot or garden in any
park or playground, which shall be posted with suitable signs, or
picks any flowers or shrubs or does damage to any such shrubs or trees
upon any Village property along any street; or injures, mars, or does
damage to any tree or shrubs upon any private or public property in
said Village; or mars or defaces any buildings.
C. He mutilates or destroys any building, equipment, fire hydrant, street
or traffic sign, electric light fixture or lamp, or wires connected
thereto, or any other property of any kind, owned, rented or used
by the Village of Akron.
D. He urinates or defecates upon or in any public place within the Village
of Akron.