As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
ADULT
Any person 18 years of age or older.
JUVENILE
Any person under the age of 18.
LOITERING
Remaining idle in essentially one location and shall include
the concepts of spending time idly, standing around, loafing, or walking
about aimlessly, and shall also include the colloquial expression
"hanging around."
PUBLIC PLACES
Includes not only streets, alleys and sidewalks, but also
any place to which the general public has access and right to resort
for business, entertainment or other lawful purpose. It does not necessarily
mean a place devoted solely to the uses of the public. It also includes
the front or immediate area of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern
or other place of business and also public grounds, area or parks.
It is unlawful for any person to loiter, loaf, wander, stand
or remain idle, either alone or in consort with others, in a public
place in such a manner as to:
A. Create or cause to be created a danger of a breach of the peace;
B. Create or cause to be created any disturbance or annoyance to the
comfort and repose of any person;
C. Obstruct any public street or highway, public sidewalk or any other
public place or building by hindering or impeding, or tending to hinder
or impede, the free and uninterrupted passage of vehicles, traffic
or pedestrians;
D. Commit in or upon any public street or highway, public sidewalk or
any other place or building any act which is an obstruction or interference
to the free and uninterrupted use of property or with any business
lawfully conducted by anyone in or upon or facing or fronting on any
such public street or highway, public sidewalk or any other public
place or building, all of which prevent the free and uninterrupted
ingress and egress therein, thereon, and thereto;
E. Obstruct, molest, or interfere with any person lawfully in any public
place;
F. Solicit or engage in any lewd, lascivious or illegal act, including
prostitution;
G. Solicit money or other valuable consideration without giving consideration
in return;
H. Making of unsolicited remarks of an offensive, disgusting or insulting
nature or which are calculated to annoy or disturb the person to,
or in whose hearing, they are made.
Whenever the presence of any person in any public place is causing any of the conditions enumerated in §Â
269-2 of this chapter, a police officer or any law enforcement officer shall order that person to stop causing or committing such conditions and to move on or disperse. Any person who fails or refuses to obey orders after being ordered to do so by a police officer shall be guilty of a violation of this section.
If any person commits an offense as set forth in this chapter,
said offense shall be considered a misdemeanor and shall be punishable
by a fine not to exceed $500 and/or imprisonments not to exceed 90
days.