[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Council of the Village of
Vicksburg 2-4-1974 by Ord. No.
97 (Ch. 38, Art. VII, of the 1995 Village Code).
Amendments noted where applicable.]
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The Vicksburg School System, Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
Any violation of this chapter shall be punished as provided in §
1-6. Additionally, whenever it shall be proven that any person has damaged, injured, removed, destroyed, defaced or tampered with any of the property owned or used by the public schools in violation of this chapter, the court having jurisdiction over that offense shall have the power to order such person to pay to the public schools, as restitution, a sum of money equal to the damages sustained by the public schools because of the actions of such person.
No person shall willfully or maliciously damage, injure, destroy,
remove, deface or tamper with any of the real, personal, intangible
or mixed property owned or used by the public schools.
No person while upon school property shall conduct himself in
an offensive, insulting or derisive manner or speak, utter or publish
any offensive, insulting or derisive language or gesture, which conduct,
language or gesture has a natural tendency to incite others to violence,
provoke fights or provoke assaults.
No person shall willfully enter upon the lands or premises of
the public schools after having once been forbidden so to do by an
authorized officer, agent or employee of the public schools, nor remain
upon the land or premises of the public schools after being notified
to depart by such authorized officer, agent or employee.
[Added 12-1-1993 by Ord.
No. 205]
A. Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases, when used in
this section, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this subsection,
except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
SCHOOL GROUNDS
Property on which a building, facility or structure, and
other real estate owned, leased or otherwise controlled by a school
or school system, in which one or more of the grades kindergarten
through 12 are taught.
SMOKE
The carrying by a person of a lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe
or other lighted smoking device or material.
B. No smoking. A person shall not smoke on school grounds in the Village
except on holidays, weekends and after 6:00 p.m., local time, on weekdays.
A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable
by a fine of not more than $50.
No person shall break and enter, or shall enter without breaking,
any school building or other building, storage facility, shop, warehouse,
or other structure owned or operated by the public schools, whether
occupied or unoccupied, without first obtaining permission to enter
from an authorized officer, agent or employee of the public schools
or the person having immediate control thereof; provided, however,
that this section shall not apply to entering without breaking any
place which at the time of such entry was open to the public, unless
such entry has been expressly denied. This section shall not apply
in cases where the breaking and entering or entering without breaking
were committed by a peace officer or someone under his or her direction
in the lawful performance of his or her duties as such peace officer.
No person shall climb or enter upon any roof of any building
owned or operated by the public schools without the express permission
of an authorized officer, agent, or employee of the public schools.
No person shall commit the offense of larceny by stealing any
of the property of another, or any of the property belonging to the
public schools, upon the premises of the public schools.
No persons shall disrupt any school class, activity or function
by engaging in any disturbance, fight or quarrel; by obstructing the
free and uninterrupted passage of other persons; by jostling or roughly
crowding any persons in any school building, parking lot, playground,
yard, or athletic ground; by engaging in any loud, boisterous, or
vulgar conduct; by collecting or standing in crowds or arranging,
encouraging or abetting the collections of persons in crowds for illegal
or mischievous purposes on any school property; or by otherwise intentionally
disrupting any such school class, activity or function.
No person shall consume, possess, or be under the influence
of any alcoholic liquor or any narcotic drug on the premises of the
public schools, provided that this restriction shall not apply to
medicines prescribed by a physician or patent medicines being used
to prevent or cure illness.
No person shall, either orally or by a written or a printed
communication, maliciously threaten any injury to the person or property
of another person to extort money or pecuniary advantage whatever,
or with intent to compel the person so threatened to do or refrain
from doing any act against his or her will, upon the premises of the
public schools.