For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
INCITE A RIOT. Urging or instigating other persons to riot, but shall not be deemed to mean the mere oral or written advocacy of ideas or expression of belief, not involving advocacy of any act or acts of violence or assertion of the rightness of, or the right to commit, any act or acts.
PUBLIC PLACE.
(1) Any place to which the general public has access and a right to resort for business, entertainment or other purpose, but does not necessarily mean a place devoted solely to public use.
(2) It shall also include the front or immediate area of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern or other place of business, and also public grounds, areas or parks.
RIOT. A public disturbance involving an act or acts of violence by one or more persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons, which act or acts shall constitute a clear and present danger of, or shall result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual or a threat or threats of the commission of an act or acts of violence by one or more persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons having, individually or collectively, the ability of immediate execution of the threat or threats, where the performance of the threatened act or acts of violence would constitute a clear and present danger of, or would result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person or any other individual.
(Prior Code, § 11-322) (Ord. 1526, passed 11-1-94)