As used in this Article, the following terms mean:
PRIVATE PROPERTY
Any place which at the time of the offense is not open to
the public. It includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place which at the time of the offense is open to the
public. It includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
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.
[Ord. No. 1164 § 09.040, 3-2-2015]
A. Any
person who shall do or engage in any of the following shall be guilty
of disorderly conduct and shall be guilty of an ordinance violation:
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, spectating, 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 Town.
8. Any person who shall assemble or congregate with another or others
for the purpose of or with the intent to engage in criminal activity.
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 Town, 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.
A person commits the offense of drunkenness or drinking in a
prohibited place if he or she enters any schoolhouse or church house
in which there is an assemblage of people, met for a lawful purpose,
or any courthouse, in an intoxicated and disorderly condition, or
drinks or offers to drink any intoxicating liquors in the presence
of such assembly of people, or in any courthouse.
[Ord. No. 1164 § 09.140, 3-2-2015]
A person shall not loiter in any park, street, alley, highway,
thoroughfare, or around or about or at any street corner, or in the
vicinity of any other public place or place of public accommodation,
including but not limited to hotels, motels, public buildings, restaurants,
and other places of business, and refuse to cease and desist such
loitering, to move on, or both, when ordered to do so by any duly
authorized Police Officer, where such loitering is done with the intent
to cause a violation of any Town ordinance, State or Federal law,
or with the intent to cause a breach of the peace, or both.
[Ord. No. 1164 § 09.150, 3-2-2015]
No person shall post or affix any notice, poster or other paper
or device, calculated to attract the attention of the public, to any
light standard, public utility pole or shade tree, or upon any public
structure or building, or upon any private building without written
permission of the owner.