(A) For the purpose of this section,
PUBLIC PLACES means any street, sidewalk, bridge, alley, or alleyway, plaza, park, driveway, parking lot or transportation facility or the doorways and entranceways to any building that fronts on any of these places, or a motor vehicle in or on any of these places, or any property owned by the town.
(B) It shall be unlawful for a person to remain or wander about in a public place and:
(1) Repeatedly beckon to, stop or attempt to stop passer-by or repeatedly attempt to engage passer-by in conversation;
(2) Repeatedly stop or attempt to stop motor vehicles;
(3) Repeatedly interfere with the free passage of other persons; or
(4) Repeatedly pass to or receive from passers-by, whether on foot or in a vehicle, money or objects for the purpose of violating any provision of G.S Chapter 90, Article 5.
(C) It shall be unlawful for a person to remain or wander about in a public place and:
(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, including the making of unsolicited remarks of an offensive, disgusting or insulting nature or which are circulated to annoy or disturb the person to whom, or in whose hearing, they are made;
(3) Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles; or
(4) Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully in any public place.
(D) Whenever any police officer shall, in the exercise of reasonable judgment, decides that the presence of any person in any public place is causing or is likely to cause any of the conditions enumerated in divisions (B) or (C), the police officer is authorized, if deemed necessary for the preservation of the public peace and safety, to order that person to leave that public 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 prohibiting loitering.
(Prior Code, § 16-14) (Ord. passed 5-13-2003; Ord. passed 10-12-2010) Penalty, see § 130.99