[Code 1974 § 14-36; Code 1985 § 15-156;
Code 2005 § 70-211]
Wherever three or more persons assemble with intent or with
means and preparations to do an unlawful act which would be riot if
actually committed, but do not act toward the commission thereof,
or whenever such persons assemble without authority of law, and in
such a manner as is adapted to disturb the public peace, or excite
public alarm, such assembly is an unlawful assembly. Such an unlawful
assembly is hereby declared to be unlawful and an offense.
[Code 1974 § 14-63; Code 1985 § 15-157;
Code 2005 § 70-212]
It is unlawful for any person to throw or to shoot any stone,
shot or other object into or across any street or alley, or in any
place where he is likely to hit another person wrongfully or to injure
property, or to throw or shoot any stone, shot or other object at
any person, vehicle, structure, electric light or other property of
another, whether public or private, except in case where such is done
in defense of oneself, of another person or of property.
[Code 1974 § 14-29; Code 1985 § 15-159;
Code 2005 § 70-214]
No person shall charge, or cause to be charged, any fence abutting
upon or constructed along any public thoroughfare with electric current.
[Code 1974 § 14-28; Code 1985 § 15-160;
Code 2005 § 70-215]
It shall be unlawful for any person to use barbed wire for fencing any lot, or part of lot, or enclosing any land or lots, in whole or in part, or for any other purpose, within the City without first having obtained written permission to do so from the City Manager, or his representative. Such permission shall be granted if the public safety will not be endangered thereby, but in no event shall a barbed wire fence be within three feet of any public sidewalk, in violation of §
9-7.
[Code 1974 § 14-45; Code 1985 § 15-162;
Code 2005 § 70-216]
It is unlawful for any person, except pursuant to a permit issued
by the Board of Commissioners, to keep or maintain, or cause to be
kept or maintained, any piano, mechanical or otherwise, or any music
or noisemaking device of any kind or character, or to keep any "crier"
or "speaker" in or in front of any building or edifice if the purpose
of such device is designed to or likely to attract the attention of
passersby or the public generally, to any amusement, entertainment
or business conducted in such building or edifice.
[Code 1974 § 14-46; Code 1985 § 15-163;
Code 2005 § 70-217]
It is unlawful for any person to travel or drive over the City
using any noisemaking device, megaphone or loudspeaker in announcing
or broadcasting events or businesses in any portion of the City within
500 feet of a school building when school is in session, or a church
when religious services are being conducted, or a funeral home when
a funeral service is being conducted, or a hospital at any time.
[Code 1974 § 14-48; Code 1985 § 15-164;
Code 2005 § 70-218]
No person shall employ any profane, violent, abusive or insolent
language toward or about another person in his presence or hearing,
which language, in its common acceptation, is calculated to arouse
or anger the person about to whom it is spoken or addressed, or to
cause a breach of the peace, or an assault.
[Code 1974 § 14-49; Code 1985 § 15-165;
Code 2005 § 70-219]
Every person who willfully interferes with or disturbs a religious
service, or who willfully prevents, by threats or violence, another
person from performing any lawful act enjoined upon or recommended
to such person by the religion which he professes, is guilty of a
misdemeanor.
[Code 1974 § 14-47; Code 1985 § 15-166;
Code 2005 § 70-220]
If any person shall willfully or maliciously disturb, either
by day or night, the peace and quiet of the City or of any, neighborhood,
family or person by loud or unusual noise, or by abusive, violent,
obscene or profane language, whether addressed to the party so disturbed
or some other person, or by threatening to kill, do bodily harm or
injury, destroy property, fight, or by quarreling or challenging to
fight, or fighting, or shooting off any firearms, or brandishing the
firearm, or by running any horse at unusual speed along any street,
alley, highway or public road, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not to exceed
$100.
Every person who willfully commits any act which grossly injures
the person or property of another, or which grossly disturbs peace
or health, or which openly outrages public decency, including but
not limited to urination in a public place, and is injurious to public
morals, although no punishment is expressly prescribed therefor by
this code, is guilty of a misdemeanor.