[Ord. 1980-8, 6/2/1980, § 1]
As used in this Part, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated.
LOITERING
Remaining idle in essentially one location. It shall include the concepts of spending time idly, loafing or walking about aimlessly and shall also include the colloquial expression "hanging around."
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place to which the public has access. The term shall include any street, highway, road, alley or sidewalk. It shall also include the front or the neighborhood of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern or other place of business and public grounds, areas and parks, as well as parking lots or other vacant private property not owned by or under the control of the person charged with violating this Part or, in the case of a minor, not owned by or under the control of his parent or guardian.
[Ord. 1980-8, 6/2/1980, § 2]
1. 
No person shall loiter in such a manner as to:
A. 
Create or cause to be created a danger of a breach of the peace.
B. 
Create or cause to be created any disturbance or annoyance to the comfort and repose of any person.
C. 
Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles.
D. 
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully in any public place as defined in § 6-501. This paragraph shall include the making of unsolicited remarks of an offensive, profane, disgusting or insulting nature or which are calculated to annoy or disturb the person to whom or in whose hearing they are made.
[Ord. 1980-8, 6/2/1980, § 3]
Whenever any police officer shall, in the exercise of reasonable judgment, decide that the presence of any person in any public place is causing or is likely to cause any of the conditions enumerated in § 6-502, he may, if he deems it necessary for the preservation of the public peace and safety, order that person to leave that place. Any person who shall refuse to leave after being ordered to do so by a police officer shall be guilty of a violation of this Part.
[Ord. 1980-8, 6/2/1980, § 4; as amended by Ord. 2009-8, 12/7/2009]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of this Part, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues or each section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense.