(A) It shall be unlawful for any person in the city to engage in criminal gang activity. For purposes of this section, a
STREET GANG or GANG is defined as: Any ongoing organization, association in fact or group of 3 or more persons, whether formally or informally organized, or any subgroup or affiliated group thereof, having as one of its activities the commission of criminal or illegal acts or violations of municipal ordinances, and whose members individually or collectively engage in or have engaged in a pattern of criminal activity, illegal acts or ordinance violations, and which group frequently, though not necessarily, claims 1 or more particular geographical territories or turfs exclusively as its realm of influence and operations.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person within the city to knowingly use, display or wear colors, emblems or insignia on or about their person in public for the purpose of promoting any street gang activity. Evidence of the commission of such offenses may be seized by police officers.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person within the city to knowingly do or make any act, utterance, gesture or display for the purpose of communicating membership of, affiliation with, association with, support of identification with, sympathy toward or affront or insult toward any street gang or that the subject act, utterance, gesture or display is used and recognized as communicative of street gang membership, affiliation, association, support, identification, sympathy or affront.
(Prior Code, § 132.65) (Ord. 7792, passed 5-22-1995) Penalty, see § 132.999