It shall be unlawful for any person under the age of 21 years, to have in his possession or consume any alcoholic beverage, as the same is defined in Section 23004 of the State Business and Professions Code, while in or upon any street, alley, dance hall or other public place in the city.
(Prior code § 11-7; Code 1959 § 12.2)
It shall be unlawful for any person while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, in a motor vehicle or otherwise, to appear or be in or upon any public highway, street, alley, square or other public place within the city.
(Prior code § 11-8; Code 1959 § 12.8)
(1) 
No person shall have in his possession any bottle, can or other receptacle containing any alcoholic beverage which has been opened or a seal broken or the contents of which have been partially removed, or consume any intoxicating liquor while in or about the area known as the Willows Westside Mall, where alcoholic beverages are not legally offered for sale and consumption on site. (That area is defined as the commercial district located between Tehama and Butte Streets bordered by Willow Street on the north and Sycamore Street on the south.) For purposes of this section, the terms "intoxicating liquor" and "alcoholic beverages" are defined as any liquor defined by the Liquor Control Act of the State of California as intoxicating.
(2) 
Exceptions – Permits. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, the consumption and possession of alcoholic beverages shall be lawful upon written authorization by the chief of police to an organization sponsoring a special event. The chief of police may issue such authorization when, in his judgment, the organization has made adequate provisions for policing.
(3) 
A violation of this section is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months or by a fine of not less than $50.00 nor more than $300.00.
(4) 
Alternatively, a violation of this section may be charged as an infraction punishable by a fine of not less than $50.00 nor more than $300.00.
(Prior code § 11-9; Ord. 624-90, 10-23-1990)
No person shall possess any glass beverage container or other such drinking device in any city park in the city of Willows. "Beverage" is defined as any liquid intended for human consumption.
(1) 
A violation of this section is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months or by fine of not less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00 or by both.
(2) 
Alternatively, a violation of this section may be charged as an infraction punishable by a fine of not less than $50.00 nor more than $300.00.
(Prior code § 11-13; Ord. 598-85, 1-22-1985)
No person shall ride, lead, direct, or allow any horse upon or within any city park. No person shall drive, nor allow to be driven, except in designated thoroughfares or parking areas, any motor vehicle as defined in the California Vehicle Code in any city park in the city of Willows.
(1) 
A violation of this section is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months or by fine of not less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00 or by both.
(2) 
Alternatively, a violation of this section may be charged as an infraction punishable by a fine of not less than $50.00 nor more than $300.00.
(Prior code § 11-14; Ord. 598-85, 1-22-1985)
It shall be unlawful for any person to cut, mark, burn, tear down, deface, remove or destroy any building or any portion of any building, walk, bridge, fence, tree, plant, shrub, ornamental structure or object, post, pipe, stone, wire, or any other property, belonging to or used by the city or located on, above, under or along its streets, sidewalks, parks, or public places or buildings, without lawful authority.
(Prior code § 11-15; Code 1959 § 12.5)
It shall be unlawful for any person to roam about the streets of the city, or in any public place, rioting, swearing, or uttering vulgar, profane or obscene language, or to act in a violent or abusive manner, or to break, injure or destroy any sign, window, door, goods, wares or merchandise, or to in anywise injure or destroy real or personal property not his own, or to in anywise create or cause any riot, disturbance or disorder.
It shall be unlawful for any person, upon the streets or in any public place in the city, to fight or offer to fight, wrangle, quarrel, talk or sing in a loud or unusual manner, or to publicly use obscene or profane language, or to be guilty of any act whereby the peace, good order and quiet of the community is disturbed.
(Prior code § 11-16; Code 1959 § 12.6)
It shall be unlawful for any person in any theater, opera house or any place of public assembly, to, by any unruly or boisterous conduct, or by whistling, stamping or loud talking, or by any other act or thing, disturb any such meeting or performance.
(Prior code § 11-17; Code 1959 § 12.7)
It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge or use any pistol, shotgun, rifle, air gun, spring gun, catapult, sling, bow, crossbow or other device for throwing stones, shot, metal slugs or arrows within the city. This section shall not apply to any person over the age of 21 years who has secured a permit from the police chief, which shall be good for six months, nor to peace officers in the performance of the duties of their office, nor to persons shooting in a duly authorized shooting gallery.
(Prior code § 11-19; Code 1959 § 12.9; Ord. 635-92, 8-11-1992)
It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter, stand or sit in or upon any public highway, alley, sidewalk or crosswalk so as in any manner to hinder or obstruct the free passage therein or thereon of persons or vehicles passing or attempting to pass along the same, or so as in any manner to annoy or molest persons passing along the same.
(Prior code § 11-26; Code 1959 § 12.11)
It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter, stand or sit in or at the entrance of, or approach to, any church, hall, theater, park or place of public assemblage so as in any manner to obstruct the entrance or approach thereto.
(Prior code § 11-27; Code 1959 § 12.12)
Any person who shall, while in the city, make, aid, or participate in any disturbance or improper diversion, or who shall on any thoroughfare, street, sidewalk or other public place congregate with others and refuse to move on when so ordered by the police; or who shall unduly interfere with others lawfully on the streets, sidewalks or other public places; or who shall collect in bodies for the purpose of haranguing or annoying others; or who shall create loud noises unnecessarily, or curse, revile or defame any other person, or do any other act or thing tending to disturb the peace, quiet or comfort of persons who may witness or be subjected to same; or who shall engage in any conduct which tends to cause or provoke a breach of the peace or corrupt public morals shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Prior code § 11-28)
It shall be unlawful for any group or body of people to parade or march on the streets, sidewalks or other public places in the city without first advising the mayor of the city of the time, place and purpose of such march or such parade and obtaining a permit from the mayor to do so.
(Prior code § 11-29)
It shall be unlawful for any person to advertise, hold, officiate at or address any meeting, gathering or other assembly of people on the streets, sidewalks, parks or other public places without first informing the mayor of the city of the time, place and purpose of the meeting or gathering and obtaining a permit from the mayor to do so. It shall be unlawful to do the above acts on any private property without first obtaining the permission of the owner.
(Prior code § 11-30)
Every person who willfully resists, hinders, or interferes with the chief of police or any police officer in any duty imposed on him by law or ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Prior code § 11-34; Code 1959 § 12.15)
It shall be unlawful for any owner or tenant in any place where billiards, pool, tenpins, shooting gallery, card games or other games are played or any place where cigars or tobacco are sold, to keep such place open or operate it between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m., and during such hours no gathering or assembling of people shall be held therein. No such place shall have any portion of such premises partitioned into rooms or recesses of any kind and no screen or curtain of any kind shall be used in any of such premises. No owner or tenant of such place of business shall permit any cards or other games to be played in such place, except the games specified in the license therefor. No such owner or tenant shall have or use or permit anyone to have or use any door or other opening leading to or from such room into another room or building. All such premises shall have an unobstructed view through the windows thereof and such windows shall be of such materials and shall be so constructed and maintained as to permit an unobstructed view through and into such premises.
(Prior code § 11-35; Code 1959 § 12.16)
Anyone desiring to conduct a room or place where billiards, pool, or other similar games are played shall apply to the city council in writing for a permit, giving the exact location of the place and the name of the person who is to conduct and be in charge of the same. On receiving such application the city council shall have power to either grant or refuse the same, as it may elect in each instance.
(Prior code § 11-36; Code 1959 § 12.17)
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or maintain or be an inmate of, or in any way contribute to the support of, any house of prostitution or assignation, or to be found therein.
(Prior code § 11-38; Code 1959 § 12.10)
Whenever riot, general civil disobedience or the threat of same occurs in the city, and it is deemed necessary in order to suppress the riot or act of civil disobedience, the mayor or acting mayor shall have the power to do the following:
(1) 
Declare hours of curfew for all persons, and during said hours of curfew, all persons shall be at their homes and shall not be on the streets, alleys or other public areas of the city. The curfew shall be declared in a proclamation of the mayor or acting mayor, which proclamation shall be delivered to the chief of police, who shall then see that said proclamation is delivered to all news media within the city and who shall also use public address systems throughout the city and immediately notify the public of said proclamation and curfew and warn the public that any violation of the curfew shall be deemed a misdemeanor and violators will be arrested.
(2) 
Declare all or any business establishments to be closed and remain closed until further order. Any provisions after notice, and refusing to close and remain closed shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. The mayor or acting mayor shall issue a proclamation which shall be delivered to the chief of police, who shall inform said business of said proclamation.
(Prior code § 11-44)
The chief of police shall have authority to temporarily close any or all streets, alleys and other public ways in the city to the public whenever, in the opinion of the mayor or acting mayor or the chief of police, it is necessary in order to maintain the peace of said community.
(Prior code § 11-45)
Every person remaining present at the place of any riot or unlawful assembly after the same has been ordered to disperse by the police or any other lawful authority, except those public officers and persons assisting them in attempting to disperse the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Prior code § 11-46)
It shall be unlawful for any person to display signs, banners or inscriptions on automobiles or other vehicles or bulletin boards, or to display the same upon any street, sidewalk or other public place, with any words, phrases or signs tending to incite riots or disorders, or which inscriptions are seditious or which in anywise tend to create or provoke or do create or provoke a breach of the peace.
(Prior code § 11-52; Code 1959 § 12.20)
No slaughterhouse, hide yard or house where hides are stored will be allowed or permitted within the limits of the city; provided, nothing contained in this section shall be so construed as to prohibit the storing of hides in warehouses or other places where such hides await immediate shipment.
(Prior code § 11-53; Code 1959 § 12.21)
(1) 
As used in this section, "person" means all domestic and foreign corporations, associations, syndicates, joint stock corporations, partnerships of every kind, societies and individuals transacting or carrying on any business or indulging in any of the practices specified in this section, within the city.
(2) 
It shall be unlawful for any solicitor, peddler, hawker, itinerant merchant or transient vendor of merchandise to go in or upon any private property occupied for residential purposes, not having been requested and invited to do so by the owner or occupant of such private residences for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares and merchandise or services or for disposing of or peddling or hawking the same.
(3) 
The provisions of this section shall not apply to nor include farmers, orchardists, poultrymen or horticulturists who may, within the city, sell exclusively their own produce grown and raised by them.
(Prior code § 11-54; Code 1959 §§ 12.22 – 12.24)
It shall be the duty of the owner, occupant or lessee of any property in the city to keep the trees in front of such property trimmed to at least 12 feet from the ground, and in such a manner as not to interfere with the free and unobstructed use of the sidewalk.
(Prior code § 11-58; Code 1959 § 12.25)
It shall be the duty of the superintendent of streets whenever he shall discover any violation of the provisions of WMC § 9.05.280 to notify the owner, occupant or lessee to trim the trees in front of the property so owned, occupied or leased in accordance with the provisions of WMC § 9.05.280. Upon refusal or failure to do so within five days after such notice has been given, the person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and the superintendent of streets shall trim the trees in front of the property, and the charge or expense for such labor shall become a charge against the owner, and be collected by suit in the name of the city.
(Prior code § 11-59; Code 1959 § 12.26)
It shall be unlawful for any two or more persons to collect upon any street, sidewalk, or other public place, for any unlawful purpose, or for any purpose to the annoyance or disturbance of citizens or travelers, or to refuse to disperse or move away when requested to do so by any policeman.
(Prior code § 11-66; Code 1959 § 12.28)
It shall be unlawful for any person, except a fireman in the discharge of his duties, or a person having a written permit from the superintendent of the waterworks or manager of the water company, to open or in any manner tamper with any fire hydrant, stopcock or air cock connected with the water mains of any company, individual or corporation furnishing water to the people of the city.
(Prior code § 11-68; Code 1959 § 12.30)
(1) 
Purpose. This section permits a garage sale or a yard sale in a residential zone subject to restrictions hereinafter set forth designed to protect the character of residential zones and the peace, privacy, safety, and general public welfare of persons within such zones.
(2) 
Garage or Yard Sale Defined. A "garage, patio, or yard sale" means a sale conducted by any occupant of a residence from any location on the premises in any kind of residential zone of personal property accumulated during the course of ordinary residential living by selling the same to the public. Premises of churches, charitable organizations, schools, and other nonprofit organizations are not residences as defined herein and expressly are not subject to the restrictions applicable to a garage, patio, or yard sale defined herein. A garage or yard sale shall not be conducted at any location other than a single-family residence or mobile home lot.
(3) 
Restrictions. A garage, patio, or yard sale as hereinabove defined only may be conducted as follows:
(a) 
No more than four sales may be conducted in any one calendar year.
(b) 
Each sale shall last no more than three consecutive days beginning each day no earlier than 8:00 a.m. and ending no later than 6:00 p.m., and shall be held no sooner than 90 calendar days after a prior sale.
(c) 
Only one temporary on-site advertising sign conforming to WMC Title 18 standards and regulations shall be permitted, and posting the sign earlier than one day before the sale and maintaining the sign more than one day after the sale shall be prohibited.
(d) 
No person shall conduct or operate a garage or yard sale at which personal property is offered for sale or display that is not the personal property of the person conducting or operating the garage or yard sale, or the personal property of another person who is known by the person conducting or operating the sale to be the owner of such property and who has given express consent for the display and sale of such property. Property offered for sale or display shall not include secondhand goods obtained for purposes of resale.
(e) 
No person operating or conducting any garage or yard sale shall display or permit the display of any property for sale, or place or locate any property, within five feet of the improved portion of any public right-of-way or property line. The improved portion of a public right-of-way includes sidewalks, pathways, curbs, paving, bikeways and any other portions of the right-of-way used or traveled by the public.
(f) 
Property shall be displayed in an orderly manner and shall not be placed on or hung from fences, shrubbery, or trees.
(4) 
Inspection of Site and Property. Any person may lodge a complaint with an enforcement official. An "enforcement official" means a city building inspector, city police officer, or other person designated by the city manager.
During all reasonable hours and in any reasonable manner, an enforcement officer may inspect the site at which a garage or yard sale is being advertised, or the personal property which may be displayed or offered for sale, for the purpose of assuring compliance with the provisions of this section.
(5) 
Penalties. Violation of any provision of this section shall subject the violator to suit for either civil remedy or criminal penalty, or both. The criminal penalty for a first or second offense shall be punishable as an infraction as defined by the California Penal Code, as amended from time to time. The criminal penalty for a third offense or more shall be punishable as a misdemeanor as defined by the California Penal Code, as amended from time to time. The term "offense" shall mean a judgment by a court that the provisions of this section have been violated as a matter of criminal law.
(Prior code § 11-69; Ord. 659-98, 5-12-1998)