[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of Federalsburg 9-24-1976
by Ord. No. 112. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Curfew — See Ch. 78.
Public assemblies — See Ch. 154.
As used in this chapter, 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."
Any place to which the public has access and shall include any street,
highway, road, alley or sidewalk. It shall also include the front of the neighborhood
of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern, or other place of business and public
grounds, areas, parks, as well as all public or private parking lots or other
vacant private property not owned by or under the control of the person charged
with violating this section.
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 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 as defined in this chapter. This subsection shall include
the making of unsolicited remarks of an offensive, disgusting or insulting
nature or which are calculated to annoy or disturb the person to, or in whose
hearing, they are made.
Whenever any police officer shall, in the exercise of reasonable judgment,
decide that the presence of any person in any public place is causing or is
likely to cause any of the conditions as prohibitions in this chapter, he
may, if he deems it necessary for the preservation of the public peace and
safety, 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 chapter.
