(A) (1) It shall be unlawful for a person to commit the offense of harassment.
(2) A person commits harassment if, with intent to harass, annoy or alarm another person, he or she:
(a) Strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise touches a person or subjects him or her to physical contact;
(b) In a public place directs obscene language or makes an obscene gesture to or at another person;
(c) Follows a person in or about a public place;
(d) Engages in conduct or repeatedly commits acts that alarm or seriously annoy another person and that serve no legitimate purpose;
(e) Initiates communication with a person, anonymously or otherwise by telephone, in a manner intended to harass or threaten bodily injury or property damage, or makes any comment, request, suggestion or proposal by telephone which is obscene;
(f) Makes a telephone call or causes a telephone to ring repeatedly, whether or not a conversation ensues, with no purpose of legitimate conversation;
(g) Makes repeated communication at inconvenient hours or in offensively coarse language; or
(h) Repeatedly insults, taunts or challenges another in a manner likely to provoke a violent or disorderly response.
(B) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, OBSCENE means a patently offensive description of ultimate sexual acts or solicitation to commit ultimate sexual acts, whether or not said ultimate sexual acts are normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including masturbation, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus or excretory functions.
(C) Any act prohibited by division (A)(2)(e) above may be deemed to have occurred or to have been committed at the place at which the telephone call was either made or received.
(Ord. 1990-2, passed 7-26-1990) Penalty, see § 130.99