City of Raymore, MO Offenses Concerning Public Peace

A person commits the offense of peace disturbance if:

They unreasonably and knowingly disturb or alarm another person or persons by:

Loud noise; or

Offensive language addressed in a face-to-face manner to a specific individual and uttered under circumstances which are likely to produce an immediate violent response from a reasonable recipient; or

Threaten to commit a felonious act against any person under circumstances which are likely to cause a reasonable person to fear that such threat may be carried out; or

Fight; or

Create a noxious and offensive odor.

They are in a public place or on private property of another without consent and purposely causes inconvenience to another person or persons by unreasonably and physically obstructing:

Vehicular or pedestrian traffic; or

The free ingress or egress to or from a public or private place.

Peace disturbance is a misdemeanor.

Section 210.210 Private Peace Disturbance.

A person commits the offense of private peace disturbance if they are on private property and unreasonably and purposely causes alarm to another person or persons on the same premises by:

Threatening to commit a crime against any person; or

Fighting.

Section 210.220 Peace Disturbance Definitions.

For the purposes of Sections 210.200 and 210.210 of this Chapter, the following words shall have the following interpretation and/or meanings indicated below:

PRIVATE PROPERTY

Any place which at the time is not open to the public. It includes property which is owned publicly or privately.

PROPERTY OF ANOTHER

Any property in which the actor does not have a possessory interest.

PUBLIC PLACE

Any place which at the time is open to the public. It includes property which is owned publicly or privately.

If a building or structure is divided into separately occupied units, such units are separate premises.

Section 210.230 Disorderly Conduct.

Any person who shall do or engage in any of the following shall be guilty of disorderly conduct and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor:

Any person who shall act in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another whereby any person is placed in fear of the safety of their life, limb, or health.

Any person who shall act in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another, whereby property of any person is placed in danger of being destroyed or damaged.

Any person who shall endanger lawful pursuits of another by acts of violence, angry threats, and abusive conduct.

Any person who shall cause, provoke, or engage in any fight, brawl, or riotous conduct so as to endanger life, limb, health, or property of another.

Any person who shall assemble or congregate with another or others for the purpose of causing, provoking, or engaging in any fight or brawl.

Any person who shall be found jostling or roughly crowding or pushing any person in any public place.

Any person who shall collect in bodies or in crowds, for any unlawful purposes, as defined by current ordinances of the City.

Any person who shall assemble or congregate with another or others for the purpose of or with the intent to engage in gaming.

Any person who shall frequent any public place with intent to obtain money from another by an illegal and fraudulent scheme, trick, artifice, or device.

10.

Any person who assembles with another or others for the purpose of engaging in any fraudulent scheme, device, or trick to obtain any valuable thing in any place, or from any person in the City, or who shall aid or abet.

11.

Any person who shall accost or attempt to force their company upon any person or attempt to pick up any person against that person's will.

12.

Any person who utters, while in a state of anger, in the presence of another, any bawdy, lewd, or obscene words or epithets.

13.

Any person who frequents any place where gaming or the illegal sale or possession of alcoholic beverages or narcotics or dangerous drugs is practiced, allowed or tolerated.

14.

Any person who shall act in a dangerous manner toward others.

15.

Any person who shall use "fighting words" directed towards any person who becomes outraged and thus creates turmoil.

16.

Any person who shall assemble or congregate with another, or others for the purpose of trouncing upon another.

17.

Any person who shall, by acts of violence, interfere with another's pursuit of a lawful occupation.

18.

Any person who shall congregate with another or others in or on any public way, so as to halt the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic and refuses to clear such public way when ordered by a Law Enforcement Officer or other lawful authority.

Penalty. Upon conviction or a plea of guilty, any person, firm or corporation violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions of this Chapter shall be subject to the penalty provisions provided for in Section 100.220 of the City Code.

Section 210.235 Funeral Protests Prohibited.

Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish the person's sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of the right, but no person shall picket or engage in other protest activities, nor shall any association or corporation cause picketing or other protest activities to occur within three hundred (300) feet of any residence, cemetery, funeral home, church, synagogue, or other establishment during or within one (1) hour before or one (1) hour after the conducting of any actual funeral or burial service at that place.

As used in this section, "other protest activities" means any action that is disruptive or undertaken to disrupt or disturb a funeral or burial service.

As used in this section, "funeral" and "burial service" mean the ceremonies and memorial services held in conjunction with the burial or cremation of the dead, but this section does not apply to processions while they are in transit beyond any three-hundred-foot zone that is established under subsection (A) above.