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. 2016.21 §1, 10-10-2016
A. Definitions. For the purposes of this Section
220.750 only, the following words shall be defined as follows:
ROADWAY
The portion of a public street, road, or highway improved,
designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel and extending from
one (1) curb or edge of pavement to the opposite curb or edge of pavement,
including lanes commonly used for parking and including center medians
and lane dividers.
SIDEWALK
That portion of a public right-of-way between the curb lines
or the lateral lines of pavement on the roadway and the adjacent property
lines, intended for use by pedestrians.
B. Prohibited Conduct.
1.
No person shall stand in or enter upon a roadway for the purpose
of engaging in requesting conduct.
2.
No person shall stand in or enter upon a roadway for the purpose
of distributing anything to the occupant of any vehicle in the roadway.
3.
The activities described in Subsection
(B)(1) and in Subsection
(B)(2) are each permissible to an occupant of a non-moving vehicle on the roadway adjacent to the sidewalk if the person engaged in the conduct is on the adjacent sidewalk.
4.
Nothing contained herein is intended to prohibit the conduct described in Subsection
(B)(1) and
(2) by any person located on a sidewalk to another person on the sidewalk, or by and among persons in a City parking lot or City park.