[Amended 7-11-2018 by Emergency Ord. No. 2018-10A]
A. Except as provided in Subsection
B, any person who shall, within the limits of the Town of Cottage City, in any street or alley, in any public place, drink any intoxicating liquor of any kind, possess an open container of alcohol in public view, or act in a disorderly manner to the disturbance of the public peace shall be guilty of disorderly conduct.
B. An
individual may consume an alcoholic beverage on public property if
authorized by the governmental entity that has authority over the
property provided that the individual drinking said beverage does
not act in a disorderly manner to the disturbance of the public peace.
Any person who shall, within the limits of the Town of Cottage
City, in any street, alley or other public place, use any loud, boisterous,
or indecent language within the hearing of others, and to the disturbance
of the public peace, shall be guilty of disorderly conduct.
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or propel, or cause
to be thrown or propelled any object, substance, or paper against
or into any vehicle within the corporate limits of the Town of Cottage
City.
It shall be unlawful for any person to appear upon the streets,
alleys or other public places in the Town of Cottage City in such
drunken condition as to be unable to take care of themselves, or in
such condition as to disturb the public peace.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to loaf and loiter
at any time upon any street, corner, alley, vacant lot, school, church
or other public place in the Town of Cottage City, whether on foot
or in an automobile.
It shall be unlawful to discharge any gun, pistol or other firearm
or air rifle or sling shot within the corporate limits of the Town
of Cottage City.
It shall be unlawful to engage in begging or panhandling within
the corporate limits of the Town of Cottage City.
All persons must obey all rules and signs posted by authority
of the Town on public property and rights-of-way.
It shall be unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle and
to disobey or cause any person or animal under his or her control
to disobey any police barricades erected to control pedestrian and
vehicular traffic where a need for such has been determined and authorized
by the Chief of Police because of a local and temporary emergency
which cannot safely be dealt with in any other manner.
Unless otherwise specified, any violation of this chapter shall
be deemed a municipal infraction. The penalty for such violation shall
be a $50 fine for an initial offense and $100 for each repeat offense.
Each day any violation continues shall be a separate offense.