6-2-7: LOITERING:
   A.   Definitions:
   LOITERING: Remaining idle in essentially one location and shall include the concepts of spending time idly, loafing or walking about aimlessly, and shall also include the colloquial expression "hanging around".
   PARENT OR GUARDIAN: Any adult person having care or custody of a minor, whether by reason of blood relationship, the order of any court or otherwise.
   PUBLIC PLACE: Any place to which the public has access and shall include any street, highway, road, alley or sidewalk. It shall also include the front or the neighborhood of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern or other place of business, and public grounds, areas, parks, as well as parking lots or other vacant private property not owned by or under the control of the person charged with violating this chapter or in the case of a minor, not owned or under the control of his parent or guardian.
   B.   Certain Types Of Loitering Prohibited: It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter, in a public place in such manner as to:
      1.   Clearly cause an immediate, actual, physical violent reaction from any person of ordinary sensibilities, which reaction will cause or create a threat to the peace and good order of the public; or
      2.   So disturb a person of ordinary sensibilities as to cause such person to react immediately in such a way as to threaten by physical violence the peace and good order of the public; or
      3.   Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles; or
      4.   Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully in a "public place" as defined in subsection A of this section. This subsection shall include the making of unsolicited remarks of an offensive, disgusting or insulting nature or which are calculated to annoy or disturb a person of ordinary sensibilities so as to cause such person to react immediately in such a way as to threaten by physical violence the peace and good order of the public.
No person shall be convicted of loitering in a public place in violation of this chapter unless a police officer at the time determined that such person was causing any of the conditions enumerated hereinabove and such police officer, at that time, ordered the person to cease the enumerated conduct, which police order the person refused to obey.
   C.   Loitering By Minors: No parent or guardian of a minor under the age of eighteen (18) years shall knowingly permit the minor to loiter in violation of this chapter.
   D.   Notice Of Violation: Whenever any minor under the age of eighteen (18) years is adjudicated to be in violation of this chapter, his parent or guardian shall be notified of this fact by the Chief of Police or any other person designated by him to give such notice.
   E.   Presumption: If at any time within thirty (30) days following the giving of notice as provided in subsection D of this section, the minor to whom such notice relates again violates this chapter, it shall be presumed in the absence of evidence to the contrary that the minor did so with the knowledge and permission of his parent or guardian. (Ord. 77-6-2, 6-22-1977)