(A) A person is guilty of disorderly conduct if, with the intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he or she:
(1) In any street, highway, public building, or while in or on a public conveyance or public place engages in conduct having a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the person or persons at whom, individually, such conduct is directed;
(2) Willfully or being intoxicated, whether willfully or not, and whether such intoxication results from self-administered alcohol or other drug of whatever nature, disrupts any meeting of the Town Council or a division or agency of the town, or of any school, literary society, or place of religious worship, if the disruption prevents or interferes with the orderly conduct of the meeting or has a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the person or persons at whom, individually, the disruption is directed; or
(3) Willfully or while intoxicated, whether willfully or not, and whether such intoxication results from self-administered alcohol or other drug of whatever nature, disrupts the operation of any school or any activity conducted or sponsored by any school, if the disruption prevents or interferes with the orderly conduct of the operation or activity or has a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the person or persons at whom, individually, the disruption is directed.
(B) However, the conduct prohibited under divisions (A)(1), (A)(2), or (A)(3) above shall not be deemed to include the utterance or display of any words or to include conduct otherwise made punishable under this chapter.
(C) The person in charge of any such building, place, conveyance, meeting, operation, or activity may eject any person who violates any provision of this section, with the aid, if necessary, of any persons who may be called upon for such purpose.
(1998 Code, § 38-191) Penalty, see § 135.99
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see VA Code § 18.2-415