It is unlawful for any person to be guilty of disorderly conduct
in the City. A person shall be guilty of disorderly conduct when he
knowingly:
A.
Does any act in such unreasonable manner as to promote, make or aid
in making a breach of peace; or
B.
Does or makes any unreasonable or offensive act, utterance, gesture
or display which, under the circumstances, creates a clear and present
danger of a breach of peace or imminent threat of violence; or
C.
Refuses or fails to cease and desist any peaceful conduct or activity
likely to produce a breach of peace where there is an imminent threat
of violence, and where the police have made all reasonable efforts
to protect the otherwise peaceful conduct and activity, and have requested
that conduct and activity be stopped and explained as requested if
there be time; or
D.
Fails to obey a lawful order of dispersal by a person known to him
to be a peace officer under circumstances where three or more persons
are committing acts of disorderly conduct in the immediate vicinity,
which acts are likely to cause substantial harm or serious inconvenience,
annoyance or alarm; or
E.
Assembles with three or more persons for the purpose of using force
or violence to disturb the public peace.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
No person shall, in the City, appear in any public place in
a state of nudity, or in an indecent or lewd dress, or shall make
any indecent exposure of his or her person, or be guilty of any indecent
or lewd act or behavior, or make a lewd exposure of the body done
with intent to arouse or to satisfy the sexual desire of the person.
Breast-feeding of infants is not an act of public indecency.
A.
No person in the City shall appear in any public place manifestly
under the influence of alcohol, narcotics or other drugs, not therapeutically
administered, to the degree that he may endanger himself or other
persons or property, or annoy persons in his vicinity.
B.
No person shall drink any alcoholic liquors on any tennis court,
public street, alley, sidewalk or other public way.
C.
No person shall drink any alcoholic liquors in any public park or
recreation area between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of any
day.
D.
No person shall possess or consume any alcoholic liquors on or at
the following described playing field in the City, Bolm-Schuhkraft
Memorial Park during the course of any interschool athletic event
in which the Columbia Community Unit School District No. 4 of Monroe
and St. Clair Counties, Illinois, is participating, while the athletic
event is occurring, the playing field being more particularly described
as follows:
Beginning at the intersection of the Northerly side of North
Evergreen Street and the Westerly side of Park Drive in the Bolm-Schuhkraft
Memorial Park of the City of Columbia, Monroe County, Illinois; thence
along a line running in a Northeasterly direction parallel with and
running along the West side of Park Drive a distance of 339 feet,
more or less, to a point where said line intersects with the South
property line of the Parkview School property and the North property
line of the Bolm-Schuhkraft Memorial Park a distance of 645 feet,
more or less, to a point on the South property line of the Parkview
School property and the North property line of the Bolm-Schuhkraft
Memorial Park; thence along a line running in a Southwesterly direction
parallel with and running along the East side of Parkview Drive to
a point where the East side of Parkview Drive intersects with the
North side of North Evergreen Street for a distance of 407 feet, more
or less; thence in a Southeasterly direction along the North side
of North Evergreen Street a distance of 608 feet, more or less, to
the place of beginning, containing 5.36 acres, more or less.
[Amended 1997 by Ord. No. 1604]
It is unlawful for any person to commit an assault or battery,
or to fight in any public place in the City. For purposes hereof,
the definition of "assault" recited in 720 ILCS 5/12-1, as approved,
adopted and amended, shall apply hereto; and, for purposes hereof,
the definition of "battery" contained in 720 ILCS 5/12-3, as adopted,
approved and amended, shall apply hereto.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Pawnbrokers, itinerant merchants, transient vendors of merchandise,
theatrical and other exhibitions, shows and amusements shall not be
operated within the City without having obtained permission from the
Mayor, and having paid such license fee, tax or permit fee as may
be required by the City Council.
[Amended 1997 by Ord. No. 1604]
A.
It is unlawful to sell or offer for sale, or to circulate, pass from
one person to another, exhibit, or expose in any public place or anywhere
in view of a store or place frequented by the public, any obscene
publication, print, picture, motion picture, illustration or other
printed or written matter.
B.
It is unlawful to keep any such publication, print, picture, motion
picture, illustration or other written or printed matter in any place
frequented by, or where it may come into possession of, minors, or
to disclose or expose or exhibit any such material to a minor.
C.
For purposes hereof, "obscenity" shall be defined and judged by the
definition and standards provided in 720 ILCS 5/11-20, as approved,
adopted and amended.
[Amended 1997 by Ord. No. 1604]
A.
It is unlawful for a person, with knowledge that a person is a child,
that is, a person under 18 years of age, or who fails to exercise
reasonable care in ascertaining the true age of a child, to knowingly
distribute to or send or cause to be sent to, or exhibit to a child
any harmful material.
B.
For purposes hereof, the definition, interpretation of evidence provisions,
and affirmative defenses recited in 720 ILCS 5/11-21, as adopted,
approved and amended, shall apply hereto.
C.
For purposes hereof, it is unlawful for any person under 18 years
of age to falsely state, either orally or in writing, that he or she
is not under the age of 18 years, or to present or offer to any person
any evidence of age an identity which is false or not actually his
or her own for the purpose of ordering, obtaining, viewing, or otherwise
procuring or attempting to procure or view harmful material as defined
herein.
[Amended 6-4-2012 by Ord.
No. 2957]
A.
It is unlawful, within the City, to gamble, as defined in 720 ILCS
5/28-1, as adopted, approved and amended; possess a gambling device,
as defined in 720 ILCS 5/28-2, as adopted, approved and amended; keep
a gambling place, as defined in 720 ILCS 5/28-2, as adopted, approved
and amended; or patronize the same.
B.
Every gambling device incapable of lawful use, as defined in 720
ILCS 5/28-5, as adopted, approved, and amended, shall be subject to
seizure, confiscation and destruction by the City Police Department.
C.
Exceptions: Placement and use of a video gaming terminal, if done
in accordance with the Illinois Video Gaming Act (230 ILCS 40/1 et
seq.), as currently enacted and hereafter amended, shall not be a
violation of this section of this code.
D.
Video
gaming terminals.
(1)
An annual fee for the operation of each video gaming terminal
located in the City pursuant to the provisions of the Illinois Video
Gaming Act (230 ILCS 40/1 et seq.) shall be set from time to time
by City ordinance consistent with 230 ILCS 40/65.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
(2)
The annual video gaming terminal fee, as established hereby,
is to be paid to the City on, or before, the initial date of terminal
operation, and for terminals then in operation, on, or before, April
30 of each year thereafter. Such annual video gaming terminal fee
shall not be prorated for periods of less than 12 months.
(3)
All revenue received pursuant to the provisions of the Act,
or this subsection, shall be used for the benefit of the City's Parks
and Recreation Department.
[Amended 1997 by Ord. No. 1604]
It is unlawful for any person to engage in any fraudulent device
or practice, within the City, for purposes of obtaining money or property.
For purposes hereof, fraud shall include, but not be limited to, obtaining
control over property belonging to another person by deception as
same is defined in 720 ILCS 5/16-1(a)(2), as adopted, approved and
amended.
[Amended 1997 by Ord. No. 1604; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art.
I)]
It is unlawful for any person within the City to engage in,
promote and/or solicit for any of the prostitution offenses defined
and described in 720 ILCS 5/11-14, 5/11-14.1, 5/11-14.3, 5/11-14.4,
5/11-18 and/or 5/11-18.1, as adopted, approved and amended.[1]
