648.13   DISRUPTING SCHOOL ACTIVITIES; ASSAULT AND BATTERY.
   (a)   No person shall assault or strike a teacher, instructor, professor, person in charge of a class of students or any employee of any school, college or university while in the performance of their duties.
   (b)   No person shall threaten or menace a teacher, instructor, professor, person in charge of a class of students or any employee of any school, college or university while in the performance of their duties.
   (c)   No person shall disrupt, disturb or interfere with the teaching of any class of students, and no person shall disrupt, disturb or interfere with any activity conducted in a school, college or university building, or upon the campus or grounds thereof, or in any public place.
   (d)   No person shall assault, strike, or lay hands upon a student or other person in a school, college or university building, or upon the grounds or campus thereof, or upon the way to or from any school, college or university, or on the way to or from any school, college or university sponsored activity.
   (e)   No person shall threaten, menace, follow or pursue a student or other person in a school, college or university building, or upon the grounds or campus thereof, or upon the way to or from any school, college or university, or on the way to or from any school, college or university sponsored activity.
   (f)   This section in no way interferes with, diminishes or abolishes the duty and right of a teacher, instructor, professor, person in charge of a class of students or member of a school administration from exercising the authority to discipline students in order to maintain the proper decorum required in an educational atmosphere.
   (g)   Whoever violates subsections (a) or (d) is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 698.02 and whoever violates subsections (b), (c), or (e) is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 698.02.
(Ord. 295-00. Passed 11-8-00.)