[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Orange 3-6-73 by Ord. No. 16-73. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Remaining idle in essentially one (1) location, and shall
include the concepts of spending time idly, loafing or walking about
aimlessly, and shall also include the colloquial expression "hanging
around".
Includes any adult person having care or custody of a minor,
whether by reason of blood relationship, the order of any court or
otherwise.
Any place to which the public has access, and shall include
any street, highway, road, alley or sidewalk. It shall also include
the front or the neighborhood of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern
or other place of business and public grounds, areas and parks, as
well as parking lots or other vacant private property not owned by
or under the control of the person charged with violating this chapter
or, in the case of a minor, not owned or under the control of his
parent or guardian.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person or group of people to obstruct
or impede the free passage of pedestrians using the sidewalks of the
city. It shall also be unlawful for any person or group of people
to obstruct, stop or impede the free flow of vehicles traveling on
the streets of the city.
[Amended 7-6-2004 by Ord. No. 15-2004]
(1)
Anyone in violation of this section shall be subject to a fine of
no less than one hundred dollars ($100.), nor more than one thousand
dollars ($1,000.).
B.
No person shall be convicted of loitering in a public place in violation
of this section unless a police officer at the time determined that
such person was causing or was likely to cause any of the conditions
enumerated hereinabove and such police officer, at that time, ordered
the person to cease the enumerated conduct, which police order the
person refused to obey.
No parent or guardian of a minor under the age of eighteen (18)
years shall knowingly permit the minor to loiter in violation of this
chapter.
Whenever any minor under the age of eighteen (18) years is adjudicated
to be in violation of this chapter, his parent or guardian shall be
notified of this fact by the Chief of Police or any other person designated
by him to give such notice.
If at any time within thirty (30) days following the giving of notice as provided in § 129-4, the minor to whom such notice relates again violates this chapter, it shall be presumed in the absence of evidence to the contrary that the minor did so with the knowledge and permission of his parent or guardian.
[Amended 5-18-1982 by Ord. No. 16-82]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall,
upon conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred
dollars ($500.) or imprisonment not exceeding ninety (90) days, or
both, in the discretion of the court.
