(A) Front Street, Superior Street, Jefferson Street and rights-of-way between 9th Street to 1st Street are declared to be target zones of criminal activity.
(B) The criminal activity, as hereinabove described, coincides with the presence of individuals and groups loitering upon and along the public rights-of-way and public places as aforedescribed.
(C) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
LOITERING. Remaining in any one place under circumstances that would warrant a reasonable person to believe that the purpose of the presence of the individual is not to pass from place to place or point to point or to pause briefly in the course of use of the public right-of-way to move from place to place or point to point, but, rather, a purpose, or a purpose to effectuate, the carrying out of criminal activity of a specific nature or place persons in fear of battery or intimidating persons from reasonable and appropriate use of the public right-of-way, or the facilitating of the carrying out of littering or the destruction of public or private property.
PUBLIC PLACE. The public way and any other location open to the public, whether publicly or privately owned.
(D) Whenever a police officer or elected or appointed official of the village observes an individual or group engaged in loitering in any public place, the geographic limits of which have been hereinabove specified, the police officer or village official shall inform all such persons that they are engaged in loitering within an area in which loitering is prohibited, and order such persons to disburse and remove themselves from within an area in which loitering is prohibited, and order such persons to disburse and remove themselves from within sight and hearing of the place at which the order was issued, and inform those persons that they will be subject to arrest if they fail to obey the order promptly or engage in further loitering within sign or hearing of the place at which the order was issued during the next six hours.
(Prior Code, § 27-2-31) (Ord. 12-449, passed 7-2-2012) Penalty, see § 10.99