(A) Except as provided in § 96.01(B), it shall be unlawful for any person to loiter, loaf, wander, stand or remain idle either alone and/or in consort with others in a public place in a manner so as to:
(1) Obstruct any public street, highway, public sidewalk or any other public place or building by hindering or impeding or tend to hinder or impede the free and uninterrupted passage of vehicles, traffic, or pedestrians.
(2) Commit in or upon any public street, public highway, public sidewalk or any other public place or building any act or thing which is an obstruction or interference to the free and uninterrupted use of property or with any business lawfully conducted by anyone in or upon or facing or fronting on any such public street, highway, public sidewalk or any other public place or building, all of which prevent the free and uninterrupted ingress, egress, and regress, therein, and thereon.
(3) When any person causes or commits any of the conditions enumerated in subsection (A); a police officer or any law enforcement officer may order that person to stop causing or committing such conditions and to move on or disperse. Any person who fails or refuses to obey such orders shall be guilty of a violation of the section.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person while upon any public street, highway or sidewalk, or while on any premises which are adjacent to or fronting upon any public street, highway, or sidewalk or any public place, building, alone and/or with others:
(1) To race the motor of any motor vehicle, to suddenly start or stop any such motor vehicle or to make any loud or unseemly noise or to blow or cause to be blown any motor vehicle horn at any time unnecessarily.
(2) Whether in or out of any motor vehicle, to drink or have in his possession any alcoholic beverage or controlled substance in any open bottle, can or other receptacle, except inside improvements on such premises and in such areas thereof as may be lawfully licensed and authorized for that purpose.
(C) Any person violating the provisions of this section for which no other penalty is provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00) or by imprisonment, not exceeding thirty (30) days or both. Any such violation shall constitute a separate offense on each successive day continued.
(Ord. 93, passed 6-11-74; Am. Ord. passed 4-13-76; Am. Ord. 724, passed 6-26-01; Am. Ord. B2012-06, passed 2-22-12)