(A) The entire village within its corporate limits is declared to be target zones of narcotics-related activities.
(B) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
LOITERING. Remaining in one place under circumstances that would warrant a reasonable person to believe that the purpose of the presence of the individuals 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 and point to point, but rather, a purpose of effectuate the carrying out of narcotics-related activity.
PUBLIC PLACE. The public way and any other location open to the public, whether publicly or privately owned.
(C) If a police officer of the village observes one or more persons engaged in narcotic-related loitering in any public place designated for the enforcement of this section, the police officer shall:
(1) Inform all such persons that they are engaged in loitering within an area in which such loitering is prohibited;
(2) Order all such persons to disperse and remove themselves from within sight and hearing of the place at which the order was issued; and
(3) Inform those persons that they will be subject to arrest if they fail to obey the order promptly or engage in further narcotics-related loitering within sight 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