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.
PROPERTY OF ANOTHER
Any property in which the person does not have a possessory interest.
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. 
A person commits the offense of peace disturbance if he or she:
1. 
Unreasonably and knowingly disturbs or alarms another person or persons by:
a. 
Loud noise; or
b. 
Offensive language addressed in a face-to-face manner to a specific individual and uttered under circumstances which are likely to produce an immediate violent response from a reasonable recipient; or
c. 
Threatening to commit a felonious act against any person under circumstances which are likely to cause a reasonable person to fear that such threat may be carried out; or
d. 
Fighting; or
e. 
Creating a noxious and offensive odor.
2. 
Is in a public place or on private property of another without consent and purposely causes inconvenience to another person or persons by unreasonably and physically obstructing:
a. 
Vehicular or pedestrian traffic; or
b. 
The free ingress or egress to or from a public or private place.
A. 
A person commits the offense of private peace disturbance if he/she is on private property and unreasonably and purposely causes alarm to another person or persons on the same premises by:
1. 
Threatening to commit an offense against any person; or
2. 
Fighting.
B. 
For purposes of this Section, if a building or structure is divided into separately occupied units, such units are separate premises.
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.
A. 
Definition. The following term shall be defined as follows:
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place to which the general public has access and a right of resort for business, entertainment or other lawful purpose, but does not necessarily mean a place devoted solely to the uses of the public. It shall also include the front or immediate area of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern or other place of business and also public grounds, areas or parks.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to stand or remain idle either alone or in consort with others in a public place in such manner so as to:
1. 
Obstruct any public street, public highway, public sidewalk or any other public place or building by hindering or impeding or tending to hinder or impede the free and uninterrupted passage of vehicles, traffic or pedestrians;
2. 
Commit in or upon any public street, public highway, public sidewalk or any other public place or building any act or thing which is an obstruction or interference to the free and uninterrupted use of property or with any business lawfully conducted by anyone in or upon or facing or fronting on any such public street, public highway, public sidewalk, or any other public place or building, all of which prevents the free and uninterrupted ingress, egress and regress, therein, thereon and thereto;
3. 
Obstruct the entrance to any business establishment, without so doing for some lawful purpose, if contrary to the expressed wish of the owner, lessee, managing agent or person in control or charge of the building or premises.
C. 
When any person causes or commits any of the conditions in this Section, a Police Officer or any Law Enforcement Officer shall order that person to stop causing or committing such conditions and to move on or disperse. Any person who fails or refuses to obey such orders shall be guilty of a violation of this Section.
A. 
For purposes of this Section, "house of worship" means any church, synagogue, mosque, other building or structure, or public or private place used for religious worship, religious instruction, or other religious purpose.
B. 
A person commits the offense of disrupting a house of worship if such person:
1. 
Intentionally and unreasonably disturbs, interrupts, or disquiets any house of worship by using profane discourse, rude or indecent behavior, or making noise either within the house of worship or so near it as to disturb the order and solemnity of the worship services; or
2. 
Intentionally injures, intimidates, or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate, or interfere with any person lawfully exercising the right of religious freedom in or outside of a house of worship or seeking access to a house of worship, whether by force, threat, or physical obstruction.
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Note: Under certain circumstances this offense can be a felony under state law.
A. 
A person commits the offense of unlawful funeral protest if he or she pickets or engages in other protest activities within three hundred (300) feet of any residence, cemetery, funeral home, church, synagogue or other establishment during or within one (1) hour before or one (1) hour after the conducting of any actual funeral or burial service at that place.
B. 
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following terms mean:
OTHER PROTEST ACTIVITIES
Any action that is disruptive or undertaken to disrupt or disturb a funeral or burial service.
FUNERAL and BURIAL SERVICE
The ceremonies and memorial services held in conjunction with the burial or cremation of the dead, but this Section does not apply to processions while they are in transit beyond any three-hundred-foot zone that is established under Subsection (A) above.
C. 
The offense of unlawful funeral protest shall be an ordinance violation.
[Ord. No. 2007-6 §1, 6-9-2007]
A. 
No person shall play, use, operate or permit to be played, used or operated any radio, tape recorder, cassette player or other machine or device for reproducing sound, if it is located in or on any of the following:
1. 
Any public property, including any public street, highway, building, sidewalk, park or thoroughfare; or
2. 
Any motor vehicle on a public street, highway or public space; and, with respect to either Subsection (A)(1) or (2), if the sound generated is audible at a distance of thirty (30) feet from the device producing the sound.
B. 
Possession by a person or persons of any of the machines or devices enumerated in Subsection (A) shall be prima facie evidence that such person operates, or those persons operate, the machine or device.
C. 
Enforcement.
1. 
Powers of arrest or citation. Any authorized Police Officer shall issue a citation for any violation under this Article, except they may arrest for instances when:
a. 
The alleged violator refuses to provide the officer with such person's name and address and any proof thereof as may be reasonably available to the alleged violator.
b. 
When the alleged violator refuses to cease such person's illegal activity after being issued a citation.
D. 
Penalty. Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this Section shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each offense and a separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
[CC 1987 §500.040; Ord. No. 92 Ch. 6 §2, 8-14-1930]
A person commits the offense of disturbing an assembly if he/she willfully, maliciously or contemptuously disquiets or disturbs any camp meeting, congregation or other assembly met for religious worship, or when meeting at the place of worship or dispersing therefrom, or any school or other meeting or assembly of people met together for any lawful purpose whatever, within this City, by making a noise, or by rude or indecent behavior or profane discourse within the place of assembly, or so near the same as to interrupt or disturb the order or solemnity thereof, or who shall willfully menace, threaten or assault any person there.
[CC 1987 §505.010; Ord. No. 416 §1, 9-17-1962]
Any person who shall willfully congregate or assemble with two (2) or more other persons and willfully loaf, loiter, linger, stand, sit, lie, stay or remain at any place publicly or privately owned, whether said place be upon or about a public or private street, alley or sidewalk, when such place is within one hundred fifty (150) feet of privately owned or controlled premises, when such person or others in said congregation or assembly has been denied admittance to such privately owned or controlled premises or has been directed to leave the same, by the owner thereof, proprietor or other person in charge thereof or by any agent, servant or employee of such person, firm or corporation, and who shall remain at or about such place within such distance of such premises for the purpose of expressing or displaying any grievance concerning the denying of admission to such premises or the direction to leave the same and after having been directed by any Police Officer of said City to leave such place within such distance of such premises, shall be guilty of disorderly conduct, the same hereby declared to be a misdemeanor. This Section shall not apply when the place above referred to located within such distance of such privately owned or controlled premises is also privately owned and the owner or person in charge or possession of such place has expressly authorized such person or persons to there assemble, congregate and remain.