(A) Prohibition. No person shall be disorderly in the Charter Township of Clayton.
(B) Definition. For the purpose of this section, a DISORDERLY PERSON shall be any person who shall engage in any act or practice hereinafter enumerated, and any person who shall aid or abet such person to do the act or to engage in the practice:
(1) Commit an assault or an assault and battery on any person, or be engaged in or aid in any fight, quarrel or other disturbance;
(2) Be intoxicated in a public place and endanger directly the safety of another person or of property, or act in a manner that causes a public disturbance;
(3) Consume or offer any alcoholic liquor to any person in any automobile while parked or being driven on any public street or highway, or consume or offer any alcoholic liquor or beverage in any public place not licensed as a place of sale or consumption;
(4) Engage in any indecent, insulting, immoral or obscene conduct in any public place;
(5) Fire, discharge, display or possess any firearms, air rifle, air pistol, bow and arrow, sling shot, or other dangerous weapon within or into the township, in any objective fashion which is intended to or which has the actual effect of causing apprehension, concern or fear, on the part of another, that a threat of harm to person and/or property is likely to occur;
(Am. Ord. 374.2, passed 9-30-1999)
(6) Fire, discharge, display, or possess any fireworks except those of the type used under the conditions permitted by the Penal Code of the State of Michigan or by the ordinances of the Charter Township of Clayton;
(7) Engage in peeping in windows of any inhabited place, without the consent of the person residing there;
(8) Beg in any public place;
(9) Swim or bathe in any public place without wearing proper apparel;
(10) Utter any indecent, immoral, vulgar, insulting, vile, blasphemous, profane, or obscene language in any public place or in such a way as to subject the public to same, or by laughing, talking or otherwise disturbing any school, meeting or congregation lawfully assembled, whether for purposes religious, political or otherwise;
(11) Predict future events, or pretend to enable another to recover lost or stolen property, give success in business, enterprises, speculation, or conduct games of chance, or to make 1 person dispose of property in favor of another, by cards, tokens, trances, by inspection of hands or the skull, by mind reading, or by consulting the movement of the heavenly bodies, or by any other means;
(12) Make any immoral or indecent exposure of his or her person or indulge in any indecent, immoral or suggestive conduct in any public place;
(13) Print, publish, show, sell, offer for sale, exhibit, distribute or process any indecent or obscene picture, drawing, engraving, paper, car, book, pamphlet, statuary, image, representation, matter or thing;
(14) Willfully destroy, take, damage, alter, or in any manner deface any property of another or that which is not his or her own, or remove same from the building or place where it may be kept, placed or stored, without proper authority, or mark or pose handbills on or in any manner mark the walls of any public building, fence, tree or pole within the township, or destroy, take, disconnect, tamper or meddle with any township water meter or any other property belonging to the Charter Township of Clayton;
(15) Insult, flirt, accost, molest or otherwise annoy, either by mouth, sign, motion or any act, any person in any public place; or to induce, coax, persuade or induce by threat any person to enter any vehicle or conveyance;
(16) Engage in any disturbance, fight or quarrel in a public place;
(17) Collect or stand in crowds, or arrange, encourage or abet the collection of persons in crowds for illegal or mischievous purposes in any public place or for any purpose to the annoyance or disturbance of other persons;
(18) Jostle or roughly crowd persons in any public place;
(19) Loiter on any street or sidewalk or in any park or public building or conduct himself or herself in any public place so as to obstruct the free and uninterrupted passage of the public;
(20) Engage in any act of prostitution or solicit or accost any person for the purpose of inducing the commission of any illegal or immoral act;
(21) Attend, frequent, operate or be an occupant or inmate of any place where prostitution, unlicensed gambling, the illegal sale of intoxicating liquor, or where any other illegal business or occupation is regularly permitted or conducted;
(22) Knowingly transport any person to a place where prostitution or unlicensed gambling is practiced, encouraged or allowed for the purpose of enabling the person to engage in unlicensed gambling or in any illegal or immoral act;
(23) Keep, maintain or permit the use of a gambling room, table or equipment, or any policy or pool tickets to be used for gambling on any premises occupied, or controlled by him or her, or place, receive or transmit any bet on the outcome of any race, contest or game of any kind whatsoever;
(24) Disturb the public peace and quiet by loud, boisterous or vulgar conduct or by loud music, or to make, aid, countenance or assist in making any improper noise, riot, disturbance or diversion tending to breach the peace;
(25) Permit or suffer any place occupied or controlled by him or her to be a resort of noisy, boisterous or disorderly persons;
(26) Obstruct, resist, hinder or oppose any member of the police force or any peace officer in the discharge of his or her duties as such, or any deputized officer serving civil process or executing upon property by proper court order;
(27) Wander about the streets, either by day or night, or loiter in any public building without any lawful means of support or without being able to give a satisfactory account of himself or herself;
(28) Prowl about any alley or the private premises of any other person, either by day or night, without authority or the permission of the owner of the premises;
(29) Turn in, or encourage to be turned in, a false alarm of fire or a false report or complaint to any township, police, fire or school official;
(30) Knowingly sell, give or furnish liquor, wine, beer or other alcoholic beverages to any person under the age of 21 years, or to any drunken or intoxicated person, or to any disorderly person, or to any habitual drunkard;
(31) Wrongfully throw or propel any snowball, missile, or object toward any person or vehicle or from any moving vehicle;
(32) Cause any animal to be overdriven, overloaded, tormented, overworked, tortured, cruelly beaten, mutilated, cruelly killed or deprived of necessary sustenance; or
(33) Intentionally refuse or fail to disperse when ordered to do so by a peace officer or other public servant engaged in executing or enforcing the law.
(Ord. 374, passed 1-8-1998)
(34) Public nuisance.
(a) Creation, maintenance of public nuisance.
1. No person shall commit, create or maintain any public nuisance;
2. Public nuisances shall include, but be limited to, whatever is forbidden by the provisions of this chapter; and
3. It shall be unlawful for any owner, possessor or occupier of any lot or premises, occupied or vacant, within the township limits or for any person having charge of the lot or premises to cause or permit to continue unabated any condition as described in this chapter as a nuisance.
(b) Public nuisances defined. Public nuisances are those things, acts or failures to act, or uses of property which:
1. Annoy, injure or endanger the safety, health or comfort of the public;
2. Offend public decency;
3. Interfere with, obstruct or render dangerous any street, highway, alley, stream or public place; or
4. In any way render the public insecure in life or property.
(Ord. 374.8, passed 7-8-2004) Penalty, see § 132.99