(A) Definition: As used in this Section, "loitering" shall mean remaining idle in essentially one location and shall include the colloquial expression "hanging around".
(B) Certain Types Of Loitering Prohibited: No person shall loiter in a public place in such manner as to:
1. Create or cause to be created a danger of a breach of the peace;
2. Create or cause to be created any disturbance or annoyance to the comfort and repose of any person;
3. Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles;
4. Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully in any public place.
This paragraph shall include the making of unsolicited remarks of an offensive, disgusting or insulting nature or which are calculated to annoy or disturb the person to, or in whose hearing, they are made.
(C) Request To Leave: Whenever the presence of any person in any public place is causing or is likely to cause any of the conditions enumerated in subsection (B) of this Section, any police officer may order that person to leave that place. Any person who shall refuse to leave after being ordered to do so by a police officer shall be guilty of a violation of this Section. (Ord. 74-62, 11-18-1974)
(D) Penalty: Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this Ordinance shall be subject to a fine not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) and a separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues. (Ord. 75-39, 9-22-1975)