(a) Loitering Defined. As used in this section, "loitering" means remaining idle in essentially one location and includes the concepts of spending time idly, loafing or walking about aimlessly. "Loitering" also includes the colloquial expression "hanging around."
(b) Prohibitions. No person shall loiter in a public place in such a manner as to:
(1) Create or cause to be created a danger of a breach of the peace;
(2) Create or cause to be created any disturbance or annoyance to the comfort and repose of a person;
(3) Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles; or
(4) Obstruct, molest or interfere with a person lawfully in a public place.
This subsection shall include the making of unsolicited remarks of an offensive, disgusting or insulting nature or which are calculated to annoy or disturb the person to or in whose hearing they are made.
(c) Requests to Leave. Whenever the presence of a person in a public place is causing any of the conditions enumerated in subsection (b) hereof, a police officer may order that such person leave that place. No person shall refuse to leave after being ordered to do so by a police officer.
(Ord. 191. Passed 1-15-85.)