As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
LOITERING
Remaining idle in essentially one location and shall include the
concepts of spending time idly, loafing or wailing about aimlessly and shall
also include the colloquial expression "hanging around."
PUBLIC PLACE
Includes not only streets, alleys and sidewalks, parking lots, and
city property, but also those establishments generally open for the public
convenience and use.
It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter in a public place in such
a 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 disturbance or annoyance
to the comfort and repose of any person.
C. Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles.
D. Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully
in any public place.
E. Solicit or engage in any lewd, lascivious or illegal
act.
F. Solicit money or other valuable consideration without
giving consideration in return.
G. Making of unsolicited remarks of an offensive, disgusting
or insulting nature or calculated to annoy or disturb the person to or in
whose hearing they are made.
It is unlawful for any person who is without a business purpose for
being there to loiter in any public or private school building, around an
entrance thereof, upon school grounds or upon a public way within 100 yards
of the school grounds and to refuse to leave such premises when requested
to do so by a school employee or law enforcement official.
Whenever the presence of any person in any public place is causing any of the conditions enumerated in §
100-2, any police officer may order that person or persons to leave that place. Any person who shall refuse to leave after being ordered to do so by a police officer, or returns after being ordered to leave, shall be in violation of this chapter.
Any person who violates the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor. Each offense, upon conviction, shall be punishable by a
fine not exceeding $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 30 days, or
by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the Court.