(a) No person shall participate with four or more others in a course of disorderly conduct in violation of Section 648.04:
(1) With purpose to commit or facilitate the commission of a misdemeanor, other than disorderly conduct;
(2) With purpose to intimidate a public official or employee into taking or refraining from official action, or with purpose to hinder, impede or obstruct a function of government;
(3) With purpose to hinder, impede or obstruct the orderly process of administration or instruction at an educational institution, or to interfere with or disrupt lawful activities carried on at such institution.
(b) No person shall participate with four or more others with purpose to do an act with unlawful force or violence, even though such act might otherwise be lawful.
(c) In the event that the Mayor or, in his absence, the President of Council, or, in the absence of both the Mayor and the President of Council, the Director of Public Service- Safety, finds it necessary in order to preserve the public safety and good order of the community in times of public crises, riots and civil disturbances he may declare and establish a curfew prohibiting the physical presence of anyone upon the public streets, parks and public places of the City.
(d) In the event that the Mayor, President of Council or Service-Safety Director deems it necessary to issue a curfew order, he shall do so by issuing a proclamation setting forth the time and the circumstances of such curfew order and the ages of persons to be subject thereto. He shall publish the proclamation by use of the newspapers and the radio and television facilities of the community.
(e) In the event that the Mayor, President of Council or Service-Safety Director issues a proclamation of curfew, any police officer of the City, or any other peace officer acting under the direction of the Mayor, President of Council or Service-Safety Director, or any other duly authorized agent, shall have the right to stop any person subject to the curfew found upon the streets or public places of the City within the hours of curfew and to inquire of such persons proof of their age, their destination and their purpose for being upon the public ways of the City and to determine if such persons are subject to the curfew. No person shall refuse to give such information to any such officer or agent.
(f) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of riot, a misdemeanor of the first degree. Punishment shall be as provided in Section 698.02.
(ORC 2917.03; Ord. 97-73. Passed 12-27-73.)