(a) No person shall recklessly cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to another, by doing any of the following:
(1) Engaging in fighting, in threatening harm to persons or property, or in violent or turbulent behavior;
(2) Making unreasonable noise or offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display, or communicating unwarranted and grossly abusive language to any person;
(3) Insulting, taunting or challenging another under circumstances in which such conduct is likely to provoke a violent response;
(4) Hindering or preventing the movement of persons on a public street, road, highway or right-of-way, or to, from, within or upon public or private property, so as to interfere with the rights of others and by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender;
(5) Creating a condition that is physically offensive to persons or that presents a risk of physical harm to persons or property by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender.
(b) No person, while voluntarily intoxicated, shall do either of the following:
(1) In a public place or in the presence of two or more persons engage in conduct likely to be offensive or to cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to persons of ordinary sensibilities, which conduct the offender, if the offender were not intoxicated, should know is likely to have that effect on others;
(2) Engage in conduct or create a condition that presents a risk of physical harm to the offender or another, or to the property of another.
(Ord. 1974-68. Passed 2-18-74.)
(c) Any person permitting any of the acts described in subsections (a) and (b) hereof to be committed within or about his room, house, building or premises shall be deemed an aider and abettor in the violation of this section.
(1960 Code Sec. 66.2)
(d) Violation of any statute or ordinance of which an element is operating a motor vehicle, locomotive, watercraft, aircraft or other vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, is not a violation of subsection (b) hereof.
(e) If a person appears to an ordinary observer to be intoxicated, it is probable cause to believe that person is voluntarily intoxicated for purposes of subsection (b) hereof.
(f) Whoever violates this section is guilty of disorderly conduct and shall be subject to the following penalties:
(1) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (e)(2) and (e)(3) of this section, disorderly conduct is a minor misdemeanor.
(2) Disorderly conduct is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree if any of the following applies:
A. The offender persists in disorderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to desist.
B. The offense is committed in the vicinity of a school or in a school safety zone.
C. The offense is committed in the presence of any law enforcement officer, fire-fighter, rescuer, medical person, emergency medical services person or other authorized person who is engaged in the person's duties at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot or emergency of any kind.
D. The offense is committed in the presence of any emergency facility person who is engaged in the person’s duties in an emergency facility.
(3) If an offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to three (3) or more violations of division (b) of this section, R.C. § 2917.11(B), or any substantially equivalent state law or municipal ordinance, a violation of division (b) of this section is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
The penalty shall be as provided in Section 698.02.
(g) As used in this section:
(1) "Emergency facility person" is the singular of "emergency facility personnel" as defined in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
(2) "Emergency facility" has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
(3) "Emergency medical services person" is the singular of "emergency medical services personnel" as defined in Ohio R.C. 2133.21.
(4) "Committed in the vicinity of a school" has the same meaning as in Section 624.01.
(ORC 2917.11)