(a) Offense Defined.
(1) No person, with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, shall:
A. Engage in fighting or threatening, or in violent or tumultuous behavior;
B. Make unreasonable noise;
C. Use obscene language, or make an obscene gesture; or
D. Create a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of the actor.
(2) A person is guilty of a summary offense, and therefore a violation of this subsection, only if the intent of the actor is not to cause substantial harm or serious inconvenience, and if he or she does not persist in disorderly conduct after a reasonable warning or request to desist. Otherwise, the actor shall be prosecuted under State law.
(b) Definition. As used in this section, "public" means affecting or likely to affect persons in a place to which the public or a substantial group has access. Among the places included are highways, transport facilities, schools, prisons, apartment houses, places of business or amusement, any neighborhood and any premises which are open to the public.
(Ord. 4394. Passed 9-10-86.)