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City of Waverly, IL
Morgan County
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[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
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A person who knowingly resists or obstructs the performance by one known to the person to be a peace officer, firefighter, or correctional institution employee of any authorized act within his official capacity shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
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As used in this section, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION EMPLOYEE
Any person employed to supervise and control inmates incarcerated in a penitentiary, state farm, reformatory, prison, jail, house of correction, police detention area, halfway house, or other institution or place for the incarceration or custody of persons under sentence for offenses or awaiting trial or sentence for offenses, under arrest for an offense, a violation of probation, a violation of parole, a violation of aftercare release, a violation of mandatory supervised release, or awaiting a bail-setting hearing or preliminary hearing, or who are sexually dangerous persons or who are sexually violent persons.
FIREFIGHTER
Any individual, either as an employee or volunteer, of a regularly constituted fire department of a municipality or fire protection district who performs fire-fighting duties, including, but not limited to, the fire chief, assistant fire chief, captain, engineer, driver, ladder person, hose person, pipe person, and any other member of a regularly constituted fire department. "Firefighter" also means a person employed by the Office of the State Fire Marshal to conduct arson investigations.
Whoever knowingly resists or obstructs the authorized service or execution of any civil or criminal process or order of any court shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Whoever upon command refuses or knowingly fails reasonably to aid a person known by him to be a peace officer in apprehending a person whom the officer is authorized to apprehend or preventing the commission by another of any offense shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
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It shall be unlawful for any mendicant or vagrant to frequent any depot, store, theater, street, alley, sidewalk, park or other public place frequented by the public in this City.
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Any person found sleeping in any such place, and who has no established domicile or residence, shall be considered to be a vagrant.
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Any person of the age of 17 years and upwards who performs any of the following acts in a public place commits a public indecency:
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
(1) 
An act of sexual penetration or sexual conduct.
(2) 
A lewd exposure of the body done with intent to arouse or to satisfy the sexual desire of the person. Breastfeeding of infants is not an act of public indecency.
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"Public place" for purposes of this section shall mean any place where the conduct may reasonably be expected to be viewed by others.
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A person convicted of public indecency shall be punished as provided in Chapter 1, Article III, Penalties and Enforcement, of the City Code.