[Ord. No. 3.50 § 1, 12-13-2016]
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.
[Ord. No. 3.50 § 1, 12-13-2016]
A. A person commits the offense of peace disturbance
if he/she:
1.
Unreasonably and knowingly disturbs
or alarms another person or persons by:
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
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.
[Ord. No. 3.50 § 1, 12-13-2016]
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
B. For purposes of this Section, if a building
or structure is divided into separately occupied units, such units
are separate premises.
[Ord. No. 3.50 § 1, 12-13-2016]
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.
[Ord. No. 3.50 § 1, 12-13-2016]
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.
[Ord. No. 3.50 § 1, 12-13-2016]
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. 3.50 § 1, 12-13-2016]
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.
[Ord. No. 3.50 § 1, 12-13-2016]
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.
[Ord. No. 3.50 § 1, 12-13-2016]
A. A person commits the offense of unlawful
funeral protest if he/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:
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 300-foot zone that is established under Subsection
(A) above.
C. The offense of unlawful funeral protest
shall be an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 2004 § 215.265; Ord. No. 3.01 § 4, no date]
Whoever shall willfully, purposely
or heedlessly, in any manner, disturb or interrupt the peace of any
congregation met for a religious purpose or any lawful assembly of
people in the City of Mount Vernon shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance
violation.