No person shall:
(A) Commit an assault, or an assault and battery on any person;
(B) Be drunk in any public place or under the influence of any narcotic drug in any public place;
(C) Engage in any indecent, insulting, immoral, or obscene conduct in any public place;
(D) Discharge any firearm, air rifle, air pistol, or bow and arrow in the city, except when lawfully acting in the defense of persons or property or the enforcement of law or at a duly established range, the operation of which has been approved by the Council;
(E) Fire, discharge, display, or possess any fireworks except of the type and under the conditions permitted by Chapter 29 of the Penal Code of the State of Michigan, as last amended by Act 242 of the Public Acts of 1949, being M.C.L.A. Chapter 750;
(F) Engage in peeping in the windows of any inhabited place;
(G) Beg in any public place;
(H) Swim or bathe in any public place without wearing proper apparel;
(I) Utter vile, profane, or obscene language in any public place;
(J) Make any immoral exhibition or indecent exposure of his or her person;
(K) Print, engrave, sell, offer for sale, give away, exhibit, or publish, or have in his or her possession for any such purpose any obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, or immodest book, pamphlet, paper, picture, cast statuary, image, or representation or other article of an indecent or immoral nature, or any book, paper, print, circular, or writing made up principally of pictures or stories of immodest deeds, lust, or crime, or exhibit any such article within the view of any passer-by;
(L) Willfully destroy, remove, damage, alter or in any manner deface any property not his or her own, or any public school building, or any public building, bridge, fire hydrant, alarm box, street light, street sign, traffic control device, railroad sign or signal, parking meter, or shade tree belonging to the city or located in the public places of the city, or mark or post handbills on or in any manner mar the walls of any public building, or fence, tree, or pole within the city, or destroy, take, or meddle with any property belonging to the city, or remove the same from the building or place where it may be kept, placed, or stored, without proper authority; or disturb, tamper with, disconnect, or damage any city water meter without proper authority;
(M) Destroy, injure, or in any manner deface any drinking fountain located in the city, or throw or deposit any substance therein, or in any manner pollute the water in the basin or any fountain or detach the cups or other parts of such drinking fountain;
(N) Insult, accost, molest, or otherwise annoy, either by word of mouth, sign, or motion, any person in any public place;
(O) Engage in any disturbance, fight, or quarrel in a public place;
(P) Collect or stand in crowds, or arrange, encourage, or abet the collection of persons in crowds for illegal or mischievous purposes in any public place;
(Q) Jostle or roughly crowd persons in any street, alley, park, or public building;
(R) Loiter on any street or sidewalk or in any park or public building or conduct himself or herself in any public place so as to obstruct the free and uninterrupted passage of the public;
(S) Play any ball game in any public street or sidewalk or otherwise obstruct traffic on any street or sidewalk by collecting in groups thereon, for any purpose;
(T) Engage in any act of prostitution;
(U) Attend, frequent, operate, or be an occupant or inmate of any place where prostitution, gambling, the illegal sale of intoxicating liquor, or where any other illegal or immoral business or occupation is permitted or conducted;
(V) Engage in prostitution, gambling, the illegal sale of intoxicating liquor, or any other illegal or immoral business or occupation. Proof of recent reputation for engaging in prostitution, gambling, illegal sale of intoxicating liquor, or other illegal or immoral occupation or business shall be prima facie evidence of being engaged or occupied therein;
(W) Solicit or accost any person for the purpose of inducing the commission of any illegal or immoral act;
(X) Knowingly transport any person to a place where prostitution or gambling is practiced, encouraged, or allowed for the purpose of enabling such person to engage in gambling or in any illegal or immoral act;
(Y) Keep or maintain a gaming room, gaming tables, or any policy or pool tickets, used for gaming; or knowingly suffer a gaming room, gaming tables, or any policy or pool tickets to be kept, maintained, played, or sold on any premises occupied or controlled by him or her;
(Z) Disturb the public peace and quiet by loud, boisterous, or vulgar conduct;
(AA) Permit or suffer any place occupied or controlled by him or her to be a resort of noisy, boisterous, or disorderly persons;
(BB) Obstruct, resist, hinder, or oppose any member of the police force, or any peace officer in the discharge of his or her duties as such;
(CC) Wander about the streets, either by day or night, or loiter in any public building, without any lawful means of support or without being able to give a satisfactory account of himself or herself;
(DD) Prowl about any alley or the private premises of any other person in the nighttime, without authority or the permission of the owner of such premises;
(EE) Spit on any sidewalk or on the floor or seat of any public carrier, or on any floor, wall, seat, or equipment of any place of public assemblage;
(FF) Wrongfully throw or propel any snowball, missile, or object from any moving automobile;
(GG) Wrongfully throw or propel any snowball, missile, or object toward any person or automobile; or
(HH) Neglect or fail to support his or her spouse, children, or family, if he or she shall have sufficient ability to do so, or leave or desert his or her spouse, children, or family without sufficient means of support.
(1990 Code, § 50.002) (Ord. 5, passed 4-2-1973) Penalty, see § 10.99