[Adopted 10-7-1996 by Ord. No. 1996-11]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Remaining idle in essentially one location and shall include
the concepts of spending time idly, loafing, or walking about aimlessly,
and shall also include the colloquial expression "hanging around."
Includes not only streets, alleys and sidewalks, but those
establishments generally open for the public convenience.
No person shall loiter in a public place in
such manner as to:
A.
Create or cause to be created a danger of a breach
of the peace.
B.
Create or cause to be created any excessive and unseemly
noise to the disturbance of the peace or the disturbance of any lawful
assemblage of persons in a public place.
C.
Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles.
D.
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully
in any public place by engaging in conduct that alarms or seriously
annoys another person with intent to harass, alarm or annoy such person
after reasonable warning or request to desist by the other person.
Whenever the presence of any person in any public place is causing or is likely to cause any of the conditions enumerated in § 82-10 and there is a clear and imminent threat of a disturbance, then any police officer may order that person to leave that place. Any person who shall refuse to leave after being ordered to do so by a police officer shall be guilty of a violation of this section.
Any person violating the provisions of this
article shall be deemed guilty of an infraction, the fine for which
shall be $50. Repeat offenses occurring within a period of one year
from the initial violation shall be subject to a fine of $100 for
each such additional offense.
