[Adopted 3-16-1999]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
INTERFERE WITH
To restrict a person's freedom of movement.
PHYSICAL OBSTRUCTION
Rendering impassable any public way or any ingress to or egress from any public place, or rendering passage to, from or across such a public way or place unreasonably difficult or hazardous.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place to which the public or a substantial number of persons has access.
PUBLIC WAY
Any street, sidewalk, highway, park or other way traveled by the public.
A. 
No person shall, by physical obstruction, interfere with any other person's use of any public way or public place.
B. 
No person shall, by physical obstruction, interfere with any other person's use of a doorway or other ingress to or egress from a public place. Failure to maintain a distance of at least six feet from the threshold of any such doorway, ingress or egress shall be deemed a violation of this subsection.
The penalty for violations of § 203-21.2 shall be as set forth in Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article III, of this Code.[1]
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Editor's Note: Former Article VIIIB, Sitting or Lying on Sidewalks, adopted 6-7-2016, as amended 11-15-2016, which immediately followed, was repealed 7-1-2025. See now Ch. 95A.