No person shall block, impede or obstruct any public place or any entrance, exit or approach to any place of business in or upon any public place in a manner calculated or with the intent to prevent, delay, hinder or interfere with the free passage along or through such place of any person who is entering, occupying or leaving any place of business or who is performing any services of labor or who is seeking or obtaining employment or who is purchasing, selling, using, delivering, transporting or receiving any goods, wares, merchandise, services, entertainment, accommodations or articles or who is attempting or seeking to do any of the foregoing, or to prevent, delay, hinder or interfere with the free passage along or through such place of any vehicle or conveyance operated by or in the custody of any such other person or in which any such person is riding or attempting to ride.
(Prior code § 18-23)