(a) Definitions. As used in this section:
(1) "Garbage" means rejected food wastes, including waste accumulation of animal, fruit or vegetable matter used or intended for food, or wastes that attend the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruit or vegetables.
(2) "Incite a riot" means and includes, but is not limited to, urging or instigating other persons to riot, but shall not be deemed to mean the mere oral or written advocacy of an idea or an expression of belief not involving advocacy of any act of violence or assertion of the rightness of or the right to commit any such act.
(3) "Public place" means any place to which the general public has access and a right to resort for business, entertainment or other lawful purpose, but does not necessarily mean a place devoted solely to the uses of the public. "Public place" includes the front or immediate area of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern or other place of business; public grounds, areas or parks, and any other place which is open to the public or to which the public has access.
(4) "Refuse" means putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste, except body waste, and includes garbage, rubbish and ashes.
(5) "Riot" means a public disturbance involving:
A. An act of violence by one or more persons, part of an assemblage of three or more persons, which act constitutes a clear and present danger of or results in damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual; or
B. A threat of the commission of an act of violence by one or more persons, part of an assemblage of three or more persons, having, individually or collectively, the ability of immediate execution of such threat, where the performance of the threatened act of violence would constitute a clear and present danger of or result in damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual.
(6) "Rubbish" means nonputrescible solid waste, excluding ashes, consisting of both combustible or noncombustible waste, such as paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, grass, bedding, crockery or litter of any kind, that will be detrimental to the public health and safety.
(b) Prohibitions. No person shall:
(1) Engage in any illegal occupation or business;
(2) Engage in any indecent, insulting, immoral, abusive or obscene language or make obscene gestures;
(3) Cause, provoke or engage in any fight, brawl or riotous conduct so as to endanger the life, limb, health or property of another;
(4) Interfere with another's pursuit of a lawful occupation by acts of violence;
(5) Obstruct, either singly or together with other persons, the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic and refuse to clear a public way when ordered to do so by the police or other lawful authority known to be such;
(6) Be under the influence of alcoholic beverages to the point of intoxication in a public place, and be either endangering directly the safety of another person or property or acting in a manner that causes a public disturbance;
(7) Resist or obstruct the performance of duties by the police or any other authorized official of the City, when known to be such an official;
(8) Incite, attempt to incite or be involved in attempting to incite a riot;
(9) Address abusive language or threats to any member of the Police Department, any other authorized official of the City who is engaged in the lawful performance of his or her duties or any other person when such words have a direct tendency to cause acts of violence. Words merely causing displeasure, annoyance or resentment are not prohibited.
(10) Make or cause to be made any loud, boisterous and unreasonable noise or disturbance to the annoyance of any other person nearby or near to any public highway, road, street, alley, lane, park, square, sidewalk or common, whereby the public peace is broken or disturbed or the traveling public annoyed;
(11) Fail to obey a lawful order to disperse by a police officer, when known to be such an officer, where one or more persons are committing acts of disorderly conduct in the immediate vicinity and where the public health and safety are imminently threatened;
(12) Bathe in any body of water in a naked state or with his or her person so much undressed that there shall be an indecent exposure of the body, or indecently expose his or her body under any other circumstances;
(13) Maliciously destroy, deface or injure any public property or any private property not his or her own;
(14) Disturb any school, meeting, election or congregation lawfully assembled, whether religious, political or otherwise, or cause any disturbance in any tavern, store, grocery, manufacturing establishment or other business place;
(15) Damage, befoul or disturb public property or the property of another so as to create a hazardous, unhealthy or physically offensive condition;
(16) Commit an assault and battery or other breach of the peace, or aid and abet any fight, quarrel or other disturbance;
(17) Be a disorderly person as defined by Act 328 of the Public Acts of 1931, as amended, being M.C.L.A. 750.167, as amended;
(18) Throw, drop or place any glass bottle, jar, broken glass, refuse, garbage or rubbish upon any street, alley, sidewalk, public parking lot, public park or property not his or her own;
(19) Enter willfully upon the lands or premises of another without lawful authority, after having been forbidden to do so by the owner or occupant, or the agent or servant of the owner or occupant, or being upon the land or premises of another without lawful authority, upon being notified to depart therefrom by the owner or occupant, or the agent or servant of either, neglect or refuse to depart therefrom; or
(20) Discharge any firearm, air rifle, air pistol, pellet gun or bow and arrow in the City, except when lawfully acting in the defense of person or property, in the enforcement of law or at a duly established range, the operation of which has been approved by Council.
(c) Exemptions. This section shall not be construed to suppress the right to lawful assembly, picketing, public speaking or other lawful means of expressing public opinion not in contravention of other laws.
(Ord. 171. Passed 5-6-80.)