The city council finds that due to the growth of the city there
has been a very heavy increase in pedestrian and vehicular traffic,
and due to the narrowness of the public ways of this city with respect
to said increased use and the fact that there are only two through
streets in the business district of this city, it is essential and
necessary that steps be taken to insure that the public shall have
free use of such public ways unobstructed by any unreasonable interference
therewith. The city council fully recognizes that such congregating,
particularly in front of place of business, has caused unreasonable
obstruction to the free use of the public ways.
(Prior code § 4510)
means stationing oneself or walking, marching, or patrolling
back and forth, or moving back and forth in any other repeated, successive
or continuous manner upon a public way in front of, adjacent to, or
about any place for the purpose of or in connection with disseminating
information with respect to a dispute.
means any dispute or discussion concerning any subject.
shall include the singular or plural.
includes but is not limited to any type or kind of wholesale
or retail business or where commercial services are rendered.
includes but is not limited to any public highway, street,
roadway, sidewalk, lane or walk.
(Prior code §§ 4511—4511.5)
No person involved in a dispute, or comprising a part of, or
in any other way accompanying or being present with, any group of
persons involved in a dispute, shall congregate, or singly or as part
of a group, act in such a manner on any public way or part thereof,
that any pedestrian is thereby annoyed or molested, or that there
is an obstruction or unreasonable interference with the free passage
of pedestrians, motor vehicles, or persons utilizing other modes of
travel.
(Prior code § 4512; Ord. 913 § 21, 1971)
It is unlawful for any person involved in a dispute to station
himself at the entrance of a place of business so as to block the
entrance to others seeking ingress or egress.
(Prior code § 4513)
No person who is involved in a dispute and is congregating along
a public way, shall carry a card, placard, sign or similar object
in such a manner that, or which because of its size, dimensions, shape
or other physical aspect, it constitutes a hazardous object to other
pedestrians using the public way in a customary manner for passage
and travel, or which, because of the reason or reasons as aforesaid,
the card, placard, sign or similar object creates an obstruction or
unreasonable interference with the free passage of pedestrians in
a customary manner.
(Prior code § 4514; Ord. 913 § 21, 1971)
It is unlawful for any persons to congregate on a public street
or highway used primarily for vehicular traffic where there is a public
way, such as a sidewalk, used primarily for pedestrian traffic, abutting
said street or public highway, such sidewalk or public way must be
used, if present. Whenever there is no public way or sidewalk designed
primarily for pedestrian traffic, it is unlawful to congregate any
further than four feet from the outer boundary of the street or highway,
or four feet from any vehicles parked along the boundary of said highway.
(Prior code § 4515)
No person who is involved in a dispute shall place or station,
along any public way, any object or article or more than one such
item, used in connection with advertising or disseminating information
concerning the dispute, which item or items because of size, dimensions,
shape or other physical aspect, constitutes or constitute a hazardous
object to pedestrians or motorists using the public way in a customary
manner for passage and travel, or constitutes an obstruction or unreasonable
interference with the free passage of pedestrians, motor vehicles,
or persons utilizing other modes of travel.
(Prior code § 4517; Ord. 913 § 21, 1971)
