CHAPTER 130: GENERAL OFFENSES
Section
   130.01   Registered sex offenders in parks and recreation facilities
   130.02   Drinking alcohol on public grounds
   130.03   Fortune telling and the like
   130.04   Disturbing the peace
   130.05   Anti-noise regulations
   130.06   Firearms, weapons and missiles
   130.07   Interference with traffic
   130.08   Caves, wells, cisterns and the like
   130.09   Posting notices and the like
   130.10   Curfew for minors
   130.11   Wearing masks
   130.12   Barbed wire and electrically charged partition fences
   130.13   Library rules
 
   130.99   Penalty
§ 130.01 REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS IN PARKS AND RECREATION FACILITIES.
   (A)   It shall constitute a general offense against the regulations of the city for any person or persons registered as a sex offender with the state and or any other state or federal agency to knowingly enter into or on any public park owned, operated or maintained by the city.
   (B)   The Director of Parks and Recreation shall be charged with posting this regulation at the main entrance of each park.
   (C)   This section took effect ten days from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.
(Ord. 707, passed 7-26-2010) Penalty, see § 130.99
§ 130.02 DRINKING ALCOHOL ON PUBLIC GROUNDS.
   It shall be unlawful for any person to drink or consume, or have an open container of beer or intoxicating liquor in or on any public street, alley, avenue, highway, sidewalk, public park, public school ground or other public place unless the place has an appropriate permit and/or license for on premises consumption.
(1994 Code, § 11-101) Penalty, see § 130.99
Statutory reference:
   Arrest for public intoxication (cities may not pass separate legislation), see Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 39-17-310 and 33-10-203
§ 130.03 FORTUNE TELLING AND THE LIKE.
   (A)   It shall be a civil offense for any person to hold himself or herself forth to the public as a fortune teller, clairvoyant, hypnotist, spiritualist, palmist, phrenologist or other mystic endowed with supernatural powers.
   (B)   No persons shall carry on, practice, teach or otherwise practice the business or act of astrology, palmistry, phrenology, life-reading, fortune-telling, cartomancy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, crystal gazing, mediumship, etherealization, augury, necromancy, character reading or fortune telling by handwriting analysis, the supposed possession or use of occult or psychic powers or any other similar business or act, and demand or received directly or indirectly, a fee, gift, donation or reward for the exercise or exhibition thereof.
(1994 Code, § 11-201) (Ord. 402, passed 8-12-1985; Ord. 494, passed 9-2-1993) Penalty, see § 130.99
§ 130.04 DISTURBING THE PEACE.
   No person shall disturb, tend to disturb or aid in disturbing the peace of others by violent, tumultuous, offensive or obstreperous conduct, and no person shall knowingly permit such conduct upon any premises owned or possessed by him or her or under his or her control.
(1994 Code, § 11-301) Penalty, see § 130.99
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