509.01 Disorderly conduct.
509.02 Begging.
509.03 Loitering on school property.
509.04 Dancing in business and commercial establishments.
509.05 Disturbing lawful meetings.
509.06 Public intoxication.
509.07 Disrupting Town business.
509.08 Loitering.
509.09 Riots; unlawful assemblies.
509.10 Spitting.
509.11 Resisting arrest.
509.12 Criminal loitering by persons on supervised release.
509.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
Authority to maintain order - see W. Va. Code 8-12-5(19), (44)
Crimes against the peace - see W. Va. Code Art. 61-6
Breach of peace with weapon - see GEN. OFF. 545.02
(a) No person shall, in a public place, any State or Municipal office or office building or any other property owned, leased, occupied or controlled by the State or Municipality, a mobile home park, a public parking area, a common area of an apartment building or dormitory, or a common area of a privately owned commercial shopping center, mall or other group of commercial retail establishments, disturb the peace of others by violent, profane, indecent or boisterous conduct or language or by the making of unreasonably loud noise that is intended to cause annoyance or alarm to another person, and who persists in such conduct after being requested to desist by a law-enforcement officer acting in his lawful capacity: provided, that nothing in this subsection should be construed as a deterrence to the lawful and orderly public right to demonstrate in support or protest of public policy issues.
(b) For purposes of this section:
(1) "Mobile home park" means a privately-owned residential housing area or subdivision wherein the dwelling units are comprised mainly of mobile homes and wherein the occupants of such dwelling units share common elements for purposes of ingress and egress, parking, recreation and other like residential purposes.
(2) "Mobile home" means a moveable or portable unit, designed and constructed to be towed on its own chassis (comprised of frame and wheels), and designed to be connected to utilities for year-round occupancy. The term includes:
A. Units containing parts that may be folded, collapsed or telescoped when being towed and that may be expanded to provide additional cubic capacity, and
B. Units composed of two or more separately towable components designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of being separated again into the components for repeated towing.
(3) "Public parking area" means an area, whether publicly or privately owned or maintained, open to the use of the public for parking motor vehicles.
(WVaC 61-6-1b)
No person shall use the public streets, sidewalks or alleys within the Town for the purpose of begging; or sing, play musical instruments or make any exhibition on such public streets, sidewalks or alleys in connection with begging thereon; or use any minor child for the purpose of begging on such public streets, sidewalks or alleys within the Town.
No person, not a student in regular attendance, shall loiter in or about any school, school building or school grounds in violation of any posted rules or regulations governing the use of any such school without written permission from the principal.
(WVaC 61-6-14a)
No person shall own, maintain or operate any public dance hall or any place where the public generally is invited, either expressly or impliedly, to dance, or where dancing by the public generally and indiscriminately is permitted in connection with any other business, place of amusement or other place where the public has access generally to such dances or for any owner or operator of any place, his agents, servants or employees to advertise, invite, hold or knowingly permit to be held any dances for the purpose of stimulation of business, directly or indirectly, whether for pay or otherwise; and no person shall attend or participate in any such public dance at any dance hall or place as hereinbefore set forth and enumerated; provided, that no dance shall be prohibited in private homes by private individuals upon invitation or where such dances are directly sponsored and controlled by any recognized fraternal or civic order, such as the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Shriners, United Mine Workers of America, Lions Club or any benevolent or charitable dance for invitation.
(1973 Code §17-5)
No person shall willfully or wantonly disturb, molest, or interrupt any church, religious meeting, literary society, school, Sunday school, lecture, public speech, opera, concert, theater, show, society formed for the intellectual, moral or physical improvement of its members, or any peaceable and lawful assemblage of the inhabitants of the Town for amusement, social or deliberative purposes, or any person or persons while meeting or met together for lawful purposes, or any lawful or orderly procession within the Town.
(1973 Code §17-8)
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