As used in this Article, the following terms mean:
Any place which at the time of the offense is not open to
the public. It includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
Any property in which the person does not have a possessory
interest.
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/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.
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 ordinances of the City of
Lawson, 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 ordinances of the City of Lawson, 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.
PUBLIC PLACE
Definition. The following term shall be defined as follows:
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.
[1]
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/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.
FUNERAL and BURIAL SERVICE
OTHER PROTEST ACTIVITIES
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following terms mean:
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.
Any action that is disruptive or undertaken to disrupt or
disturb a funeral or burial service.
C.
The offense of unlawful funeral protest shall be an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 2013 § 225.060]
A.
Any person who, with intent to provoke a breach of the peace or to
cause violence to persons or property, or commits any of the following
acts, shall be deemed to have committed the offense of disorderly
conduct:
1.
Acts in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another, whereby
any person is placed in fear of safety of his/her life, limb or health.
2.
Acts in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another, whereby
property of any person is placed in danger of being destroyed or damaged.
3.
Endangers lawful pursuits of another by acts of violence, angry
threats and abusive conduct.
4.
Causes, provokes or engages in any fight, brawl or riotous conduct,
so as to endanger the life, limb, health or property of another.
5.
Assembles or congregates with another or others for the purpose
of causing, provoking, or engaging in any fight or brawl.
6.
Jostles, or roughly crowds or pushes any person in any public
place.
7.
Frequents any public place with intent to obtain money from
another by an illegal and fraudulent scheme, trick, artifice or device.
8.
Assembles with another or others for the purpose of engaging
in any fraudulent scheme, device or trick to obtain any valuable thing
in any place or from any person in the City, or to aid or abet therein.
9.
Any male person that accosts or attempts to force his/her company
upon any female or attempts to pick up any female.
10.
Uses fighting words directed toward another who becomes outraged,
and thus creates turmoil.
11.
Assembles or congregates with another or others for the purpose
of doing bodily harm to another.
12.
Any person, by acts of violence, interferes with another's pursuit
of a lawful occupation.
13.
Congregates with another or others in or on any public way so
as to halt the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic and refuses
to clear such public way when warned by a Peace Officer or other lawful
authority.
14.
Congregates with others on a public street and refuses to move
on when ordered by the Police.
15.
By his/her actions, causes a crowd to collect, except when lawfully
addressing such crowd.
16.
Stations himself/herself on the public streets or follows pedestrians
for the purpose of soliciting charity or who solicits charity on the
public streets unlawfully.
17.
Stands on sidewalks or street corners and makes insulting remarks
to or about passing pedestrians or annoys such pedestrians.
18.
Wanders, prowls or loiters, upon the private property of another
in the nighttime and peeks or peers in the door or window of any building
or structure located thereon which is inhabited by human beings, without
any visible or lawful business with the owners or occupants thereof.
[R.O. 2013 § 225.130]
A.
No person shall use, or cause to be used, sound-amplifying equipment
or other machine or device used for the amplification of the human
voice, music or any other sound for the purpose of casting human voices,
music, or other sounds upon the public streets of the City of Lawson,
Missouri.
B.
Sound-amplifying equipment as set out in Subsection (A) shall not be construed as including standard automobile radios when used and heard only by the occupants of the vehicle or building in which they are installed. Warning devices on vehicles or buildings used only for traffic safety police or security purposes shall not be included in the definition of sound-amplifying equipment.
C.
Persons or groups desiring to use such devices set out in Subsection (A) above for non-commercial use may file a request for the issuance of a permit with the City Administrator. Such request shall include the name and address of applicant, time, date, and place for use of the sound-amplifying equipment, the purpose for which such use is intended, and the approximate maximum distance such equipment is possible of projecting the amplified sound. When any person is using such devices pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of such permit granted by the City Administrator, he/she shall not be deemed in violation of Subsection (A).
