(A) Definition. As used in this section, LOITERING means remaining idle in essentially one location and includes:
(1) The concept of colloquial “hanging around”;
(2) Standing, sitting, resting, or walking about aimlessly in essentially one location; or
(3) Cruising in a motor vehicle in essentially one location, or “hanging around” inside or outside of a parked motor vehicle.
(1978 Code, § 9.28.010)
(B) Certain types of loitering prohibited.
(1) No person shall loiter in a public place in such manner as to:
(a) Create or cause to be created a danger of a breach of the peace;
(b) Create or cause to be created any disturbance or annoyance to the comfort and repose of any person;
(c) Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles; or
(d) Obstruct, molest, or interfere with any person lawfully in any public place.
(2) This division (B) includes the making of unsolicited remarks of an offensive, disgusting, or insulting nature or which are calculated to annoy or disturb the person to whom, or in whose hearing, they are made.
(1978 Code, § 9.28.020)
(C) Request to leave. Whenever the loitering of any person in any public place is causing any of the conditions enumerated in division (B) above, any police officer or the owner of such public place, or his or her authorized agent, may order that person to leave that place. Any person who refuses to leave after being ordered to do so shall be guilty of a violation of this section.
(1978 Code, § 9.28.030)
(Ord. 88-14, passed - -1988) Penalty, see § 133.99