§ 93.32 PICKETING ACTIVITY STANDARDS.

   (A)   Picketing shall be conducted only on portions of the public ways not used primarily for vehicular parking or moving traffic.

   (B)   Pickets may carry written or printed placards or signs not exceeding 36 inches, provided the words used would not tend to incite violence.

   (C)   If pickets promoting different objectives, causes, actions, or policies desire to use a sidewalk that is already used for picketing, the Chief of Police or the Chief’s designated agents shall allot a number of pickets promoting each objective to use such sidewalk on an equitable basis, proportionate to the number of objectives being promoted.

   (D)   Pickets shall be restricted to the use of the outermost half of the sidewalk or other public way nearest the street and shall not, at any time nor in any way, obstruct, interfere with, or block: persons entering or exiting from vehicles; persons crossing streets or otherwise using the public way; the entrance or exit to any building or access to property abutting the street or sidewalk; or pedestrian or vehicular traffic.

   (E)   No person observing, engaging in, or assisting in picketing shall bring to or allow to remain in the immediate area of picketing any vicious animal.

   (F)   It shall be unlawful for a group of ten or more persons to picket without filing a notice as required herein.

   (G)   The provisions of §§ 93.30 and 93.31 and this section are mandatory and not merely directory, and failure to comply with the provisions of these sections is hereby declared to be unlawful and punishable as provided by law.

(Ord. passed - -2013) Penalty, see § 10.99