For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
A. “Gathering” means a group of persons who have assembled or are assembling for a party or social event, occasion or activity on private property.
B. “Responsible person” means and includes, but is not limited to:
(1) the person who owns, rents, leases, or otherwise has legal control of the property where the gathering takes place; or
(2) the person who caused the gathering to occur.
C. “Juvenile” means and includes any person under the age of eighteen.
D. “Minor” means and includes any person at least eighteen years old but under the age of twenty-one.
E. “Unruly gathering” shall mean a gathering of twenty or more persons on private property that results in conduct that causes a “substantial disturbance” of the quiet enjoyment of private or public property in a significant segment of a neighborhood or presents a threat to the health and safety of those in attendance, responding enforcement personnel, or occupants of immediately adjacent properties. For purposes of this chapter, conduct that causes a substantial disturbance shall include, but is not limited to a noise disturbance generating three or more complaints in any four hour period, obstruction of public streets or rights-of-way by people or vehicles, public drunkenness, unlawful possession of alcohol or drugs, serving alcohol to minors, fights, disturbances of the peace, urinating or defecating in public, setting off fireworks, vandalism, littering on public property or private property not belonging to the host of the gathering, the observed presence of persons on rooftop areas not designed for occupancy, and throwing bottles or other objects or substances at law enforcement or any other person.
(Ord. 2473 §3(part))