[Prior Code 16-2]
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to resist arrest. For purposes of this Section, a person commits resisting arrest if he or she intentionally prevents or attempts to prevent a peace officer, acting under color of his or her official authority, from effecting an arrest of the actor or another, by:
(1) 
Using or threatening to use physical force or violence against the peace officer or another; or
(2) 
Using any other means which creates a substantial risk of causing physical injury to the peace officer or another.
(b) 
It is no defense to a prosecution under this Section that the peace officer was attempting to make an arrest which in fact was unlawful, if he or she was acting under color of his or her official authority and in attempting to make the arrest he or she was not resorting to unreasonable or excessive force giving rise to the right of self-defense. A peace officer acts under color of his or her official authority when, in the regular course of assigned duties, he or she is called upon to make, and does make, a judgment in good faith based upon surrounding facts and circumstances that an arrest should be made by him or her.
(c) 
The term "peace officer," as used in this Section and Section 10-12, means a police officer in uniform, or if out of uniform, who has identified himself or herself by exhibiting his or her credentials as such peace officer to the person whose arrest is attempted.
[Prior Code 16-3]
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct a peace officer or fireman. For purposes of this Section, a person commits obstructing a peace officer or fireman when, by using or threatening to use violence, force or physical interference or obstacle, he or she intentionally obstructs, impairs or hinders the enforcement of the penal law or the preservation of the peace by a peace officer acting under color of his or her official authority, or intentionally obstructs, impairs or hinders the prevention, control or abatement of fire by a fireman acting under color of his or her official authority.
(b) 
It is no defense to a prosecution under this Section that the peace officer was acting in an illegal manner if he or she was acting under color of his or her official authority as defined in Section 10-11(b).
(c) 
This Section does not apply to obstruction, impairment or hindrance of the making of an arrest.
[Prior Code 16-4]
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for a person to be an accessory to a crime. For purposes of this Section, a person is an accessory to a crime if, with intent to hinder, delay or prevent the discovery, detection, apprehension, prosecution, conviction or punishment of another for the commission of a crime, he or she renders assistance to such person, as provided in this Section.
(b) 
"Render assistance" means to:
(1) 
Harbor or conceal the other;
(2) 
Warn such person of impending discovery or apprehension, except that this does not apply to a warning given in an effort to bring such person into compliance with the law;
(3) 
Provide such person with money, transportation, weapon, disguise or other thing to be used in avoiding discovery or apprehension;
(4) 
By force, intimidation or deception, obstruct anyone in the performance of any act which might aid in the discovery, detection, apprehension, prosecution, conviction or punishment of such person; or
(5) 
Conceal, destroy or alter any physical evidence that might aid in the discovery, detection, apprehension, prosecution, conviction or punishment of such person.
(c) 
In order to be an accessory to a crime, the offender must know that the person being assisted has committed or has been convicted of, or is charged by pending information, indictment or complaint with a crime, or is suspected of or wanted for a crime.
[Prior Code 16-5]
It shall be unlawful for a person to refuse to aid a peace officer. For violation of this Section, a person must be eighteen (18) years of age or older and, upon command by a person known to him or her to be a peace officer, he or she unreasonably refuses or fails to aid such peace officer in effecting or securing an arrest or preventing the commission by another of any offense.
[Prior Code 16-7]
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to impersonate a public servant. For purposes of this Article, a person commits impersonating a public servant if he or she falsely pretends to be a public servant other than a peace officer and performs any act in that pretended capacity.
(b) 
It is no defense to a prosecution under this Section that the office the actor pretended to hold did not in fact exist.
[Prior Code 16-8]
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to aid the escape of another as provided in this Section. For purposes of this Section, any person who aids, abets or assists another person to escape or attempt to escape from custody or confinement commits the offense of aiding escape.
(b) 
"Escape" is deemed to be a continuing activity commencing with the conception of the design to escape and continuing until the escapee is returned to custody or the attempt to escape is thwarted or abandoned.
(c) 
"Assist" includes any activity characterized as rendering assistance in Section 10-13.
[Prior Code 16-9]
It shall be unlawful for any person to invite, entice, solicit or induce any prisoner in custody or confinement, to absent himself or herself from his or her work, or substantially delay or hinder such prisoner in his or her work.
[Prior Code 16-11]
It shall be unlawful for any person, while being in custody or confinement under a sentence following conviction, to escape from said custody or confinement.
[Prior Code 16-12]
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct a highway or other passageway, as provided in this Section. For purposes of this Section, a person commits an offense if without legal privilege he or she intentionally, knowingly or recklessly:
(1) 
Obstructs a highway, street, sidewalk, railway, waterway, building entrance, elevator, aisle, stairway or hallway to which the public or a substantial group of the public has access; or any other place used for the passage of persons, vehicles or conveyances, whether the obstruction arises from his or her acts alone or from his or her acts and the acts of others; or
(2) 
Disobeys a reasonable request or order to move issued by a person he or she knows to be a peace officer, fireman or person with authority to control the use of the premises, to prevent obstruction of a highway or passageway, or to maintain public safety by dispersing those gathered in dangerous proximity to a fire, riot or other hazard.
(b) 
For purposes of this Section, obstruct means to render impassable or to render passage unreasonably inconvenient or hazardous.
[Prior Code 12-1]
Any person who shall make a false alarm of fire by outcry or by using any bell or other sounding instrument, or shall make any false alarm of any kind calculated to disturb the peace, shall be deemed guilty of an offense.
[Prior Code 16-19]
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally desecrate any public monument, structure or place of worship or burial or desecrate in a public place any other object of veneration by the public or a substantial segment thereof.
(b) 
The term "desecrate" means defacing, damaging, polluting or otherwise physically mistreating in a way that the defendant knows will outrage the sensibilities of persons likely to observe or discover his or her action or its result.
[Prior Code 16-20; Ord. No. 2016-144, 10-3-2016]
(a) 
For purposes of this Section, the word "loiter" shall mean to be dilatory, to stand idly around, to linger, delay or wander about, to remain, abide or tarry in a public place.
(b) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to:
(1) 
Loiter for the purpose of unlawful gambling with cards, dice or other gambling paraphernalia;
(2) 
Loiter for the purpose of engaging or soliciting another person to engage in prostitution or deviate sexual intercourse;
(3) 
Loiter in or about a school building or grounds, not having any reason or relationship involving custody or responsibility for, a pupil or any other specific, legitimate reason for being there and not having written permission from a school administrator; or
(4) 
Loiter with one (1) or more persons for the purpose of unlawfully using or possessing a narcotic or dangerous drug.
(c) 
Lawful acts in the course of lawful assembly as a part of peaceful and orderly petition for the redress of grievances, either in the course of labor disputes or otherwise, shall not be held to be in violation of this Section.
[Ord. No. 2020-172, 3-16-2020]
It shall be unlawful for any person to urinate or defecate on any public street, upon any public sidewalk, in any other public place, in any public vehicle or in any store, assembly hall, corridor or other place open to or used by the public, except in restrooms and toilets which are provided for such purpose.