(A) Acts constituting disorderly conduct. A person shall be guilty of disorderly conduct if, with the purpose of causing public danger, alarm, disorder, nuisance, or if his or her conduct is likely to cause public danger, alarm, disorder or nuisance, he or she willfully does any of the following acts in a public place:
(1) Commits an act in a violent and tumultuous manner toward another whereby the other is placed in danger of life, limb, or health;
(2) Commits an act in a violent and tumultuous manner toward another whereby the property of any person is placed in danger of being destroyed or damaged;
(3) Causes, provokes, or engages in any fight, brawl, or riotous conduct so as to endanger the life, limb, health, or property of another, except in boxing exhibitions duly authorized and licensed under law;
(4) Interferes with another’s pursuit of a lawful occupation by acts of violence;
(5) Obstructs, either singly or together with other persons, the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic and refuses to clear such public way or place when ordered to do so by the City Police;
(6) Resists or obstructs the performance of duties by the City Police or any other authorized official of the city when known to be such an official;
(7) Incites, attempts to incite, or is involved in attempting to incite a riot;
(8) Addresses abusive language or threats to any member of the City Police Department, any other authorized official of the city who is engaged in the lawful performance of his or her duties, or any other person when such words have direct tendency to cause acts of violence. Words merely causing displeasure, annoyance, or resentment are not prohibited;
(9) Damages, befouls, or disturbs public property or the property of another so as to create a hazardous, unhealthy, or physically offensive condition;
(10) Makes or causes to be made any loud, boisterous, and unreasonable noise or disturbance to the annoyance of any other person(s) nearby, or near to any public highway, road, street, lane, alley, park, square, or common, whereby the public peace is broken or disturbed, or the traveling public annoyed;
(11) Fails to obey a lawful order to disburse by a police officer, when known to be such an officer, where one or more persons are committing acts of disorderly conduct in the immediate vicinity, and the public health and safety is eminently threatened; and/or
(12) Throws a stone, snowball, or any other missile upon or at any vehicle, building, tree, or other public or private property or upon or at any person in any public or private way or place or enclosed or unenclosed ground.
(B) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
INCITING RIOTS. Urging or instigating other persons to riot, but shall not be deemed to mean the mere oral or written advocacy of ideas or expression of belief, not involving advocacy of any act or acts of violence or assertion of the rightness, or the right to commit, any such act or acts.
PUBLIC PLACE. Any place to which the general public has access for business, entertainment, or any lawful purpose, but does not necessarily mean a place devoted solely to the use of the public. It shall also include the front or immediate area of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern, or other place of business and also public grounds, areas, or parks.
RIOT. A public disturbance involving:
(a) An act or acts of violence by one or more persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons, which act or acts shall constitute a clear and present danger of, or shall result in, damage or injury to the property of another person or to the person or any other individual; or
(b) A threat or threats of the commission of an act or acts of violence by one or more persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons having, individually or collectively, the ability of immediate execution of such threat or threats, where the performance of the threatened act or acts of violence would constitute a clear and present danger of, or would result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual.
(C) Exceptions. This section shall not be construed to suppress the right to lawful assembly, picketing, public speaking, or lawful means of expressing public opinion not in contravention with other laws.
(Prior Code, § 5.0201) Penalty, see § 10.99