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.
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.
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.
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.
[R.O. 1993 § 220.220; R.O. 1932 § 570;
CC 1969 § 18-4]
It shall be unlawful for any person to solicit, ask for or beg
money, clothing or alms of any kind or character upon the streets
or other public places in the City without first securing and having
in his possession a written permit from the City License Officer so
to do.
[R.O. 1993 § 220.260; Ord. No.
1859 §§ 1, 2, 11-15-1955; CC 1969 § 18-23; Ord. No. 2519 § 1, 6-8-1992]
A. It shall be unlawful for any person within the City to cause or allow
any unreasonably loud, disturbing or unnecessary noise within the
City and any such noise is hereby prohibited.
B. The following noises shall be deemed to constitute loud, disturbing
and unnecessary but shall not be deemed to be exclusive:
The playing or allowing the playing of radios, or loudspeakers,
in such a manner or with such volume, particularly during the hours
between 10:00 P.M. and 9:00 A.M. as to tend to annoy or disturb the
quiet, comfort or repose of persons in any dwelling or residence,
provided that any such noise that can be distinctly heard at a distance
of more than thirty-five (35) feet from its source shall be deemed
excessive.
C. The term "loudspeaker" within the meaning of this Section is defined
to be any device or instrument which produces, reproduces or amplifies
any sound, including music, voices or any other sound or noise whatsoever.
[R.O. 1993 § 220.290; R.O. 1932 § 508;
CC 1969 § 18-47]
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to be a vagrant within the City.
B. A "vagrant," within the meaning of this Section, shall be deemed
to be any person who loiters around houses of ill fame, gambling houses
or places where liquors are drunk, kept or sold, and without any visible
means of support, or who shall attend or operate any gambling device
or apparatus, or be engaged in the practice of any trick or device
to procure money or other thing of value, or shall be engaged in the
pursuit of any unlawful calling whatever, and every able-bodied married
man that shall neglect or refuse to provide for the support of his
family, and every person tramping or wandering around from place to
place without visible means of support.