(A) Definition. The term
PUBLIC PLACE
as used in this section and §§ 130.04 and 130.05, shall mean any street, alley, park, public building, any place of business or assembly open to or frequented by the public, and any other place which is open to the public view, or to which the public has access.
(B) Acts prohibited. No person within the city shall do the following.
(1) Commit an assault, or an assault and battery on any person.
(2) Be drunk in any public place or under the influence of a narcotic drug in any public place.
(3) Engage in any indecent, insulting, immoral, or obscene conduct in any public place.
(4) Discharge any firearm.
(5) Fire, discharge, display, or possess any fireworks except of the type and under the conditions permitted by Chapter 39 of the Penal Code of the State of Michigan, as amended.
(6) Engage in peeping in the windows of any inhabited place.
(7) Swim or bathe in any public place without wearing proper apparel.
(8) Utter vile, profane or obscene language in any public place.
(9) Make any immoral exhibition or indecent exposure of his or her person.
(10) Print, engrave, sell, offer for sale, give away, exhibit or publish or have in his possession for any such purpose any obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent or immodest book, pamphlet, paper, picture, cast statuary, image or representation or other article of an indecent or immoral nature, or any book, paper, print, circular or writing made up principally of pictures or stories of immodest deeds - lust, or crime, or exhibit any such article within the view of any passerby.
(11) Wilfully destroy, damage, or in any manner deface any property not his own, or public school building, or any public building, bridge, fire hydrant, street light, street sign or parking meter, or mark or post handbills on, or in any manner mar the walls of any public building, or destroy, take, or meddle with any property belonging to the city or remove the same from the building or place where it may be kept, place, or stored, without proper authority.
(12) Engage in any disturbance, fight, or quarrel in a public place.
(13) Jostle or roughly crowd persons in any street, alley, park, or public building.
(14) Loiter on any street or sidewalk or in any park or public building or conduct himself in any public place so as to obstruct the free and uninterrupted passage of the public.
(15) Play any ball game in any public street or sidewalk or otherwise obstruct traffic on any street or sidewalk by collecting in groups thereon, for any purpose.
(16) Engage in any act of prostitution.
(17) Attend, frequent, operate or be an occupant or inmate of any place where prostitution, gambling, the illegal sale of intoxicating liquor, or any other illegal or immoral business or occupation is permitted or conducted.
(18) Solicit or accost any person for the purpose of inducing the commission of any illegal or immoral act.
(19) Knowingly transport any person to a place where prostitution or gambling is practiced, encouraged, or allowed for purpose of enabling such person to engage in gambling or in any illegal or immoral act.
(20) Keep or maintain a gaming room, gaming tables, or any policy or pool tickets, used for gaming; or knowingly suffer a gaming room, gaming tables, or any policy or pool tickets to be kept, maintained, played, or sold on any premises occupied or controlled by him.
(21) Disturb the public peace and quiet by loud, boisterous, or vulgar conduct.
(22) Permit or suffer any place occupied or controlled by him to be a resort of noisy, boisterous, or disorderly person.
(23) Obstruct, resist, hinder, or oppose any member of the police force, or any peace officer in the discharge of his duties as such.
(24) Wander about the streets, either by day or night, without any lawful means of support or without being able to give a satisfactory account of himself.
(25) Prowl about any alley or the private premises of any other person in the nighttime, without authority or the permission of the owner of such premises.
(26) Spit on any sidewalk or on the floor or seat of any public carrier, or on any floor, wall, seat or equipment of any place of public assemblage.
(27) Disturb any school, meeting, or congregation lawfully assembled, whether religious, political, or otherwise.
(28) Flirt, wilfully annoy, or make or extend offensive advances or invitations by word or act to any person to whom he is unknown, in any public place.
(29) Wrongfully throw or propel any snowball, missile or object from any moving automobile.
(30) Wrongfully throw or propel any snowball, missile or object toward any person or automobile.
(31) Neglect or fail to support his wife, children or family if he shall have sufficient ability to do so, or leave or desert his wife, children or family without sufficient means of support.
(32) Summon, as a joke or prank or otherwise without any good reason therefor, by telephone or otherwise, the Police or Fire Department or any public or private ambulance to go to any address where the service called for is not needed.
('77 Code, § 20.120) (Ord. 201, eff. 8-13-77) Penalty, see § 130.99