(A) For the purpose of this section, the term
PUBLIC means affecting or likely to affect any person in a place to which the public or a substantial group has access. The term PUBLIC includes, but is not limited to, the following places:
(1) Highways;
(2) Transport facilities;
(3) Schools;
(4) Prisons;
(5) Apartment houses;
(6) Places of business or entertainment;
(7) Governmental buildings;
(8) Any neighborhood; and
(9) The inside of automobiles.
(B) It shall be unlawful to conduct oneself in a disorderly manner with the purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, alarm or recklessly create a risk thereof by:
(1) Engaging in fighting, threatening, violent or tumultuous behavior, or breach of the peace;
(2) Making unreasonable noise or offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display, or addresses of abusive language to any person present;
(3) Creating a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose; or
(4) Lewd or indecent conduct by scurrilous, obscene, indecent or profane writing, picture, mark or figure on any wall, fence, house or structure.
Statutory reference:
Disorderly conduct, see S.C. Code § 16-17-530