(A) Any person shall be guilty of disorderly conduct if he or she:
(1) Acts in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another, whereby any person is placed in fear of safety for his or her life, limb, or health;
(2) Acts in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another, whereby public property or property of any other person is placed in danger of being destroyed or damaged;
(3) Endangers lawful pursuits of another by acts of violence, angry threats, and abusive conduct;
(4) Causes, provokes, or engages in any fight, brawl, or riotous conduct so as to endanger the life, limb, health, or property of another or public property;
(5) Assembles or congregates with another or others for the purpose of causing, provoking, or engaging in any fight or brawl;
(6) Jostles or roughly crowds or pushes any person in any public place;
(7) Collects in bodies or in crowds for unlawful purposes;
(8) Assembles or congregates with another or others for the purpose of or with the intent to engage in gaming;
(9) Frequents any public place with intent to obtain money from another by an illegal and fraudulent scheme, trick, artifice, or device;
(10) Assembles with another or others for the purpose of engaging in any fraudulent scheme, device, or trick to obtain any valuable thing in any place or from any person in the city or aids or abets therein;
(11) Utters while in a state of anger, in the presence of another, any lewd or obscene words or epithets;
(12) Frequents any place where gaming or the illegal sale or possession of alcoholic beverages or narcotics or dangerous drugs is practiced, allowed, or tolerated;
(13) Acts in a dangerous manner toward others;
(14) Uses “fighting words” directed towards any person who becomes outraged and thus creates turmoil;
(15) Assembles or congregates with another or others for the purpose of doing bodily harm to another;
(16) By acts of violence, interferes with another’s pursuit of a lawful occupation;
(17) Congregates with another or others in or on any public way so as to halt the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic and refuses to clear such public way when ordered to do so by a peace officer or other person having authority;
(18) Makes any unreasonably loud and unnecessary noise;
(19) Damages, befouls, or disturbs public property or the property of another so as to create a hazardous, unhealthy, or physically offensive condition;
(20) Consumes alcoholic beverages on any public street, sidewalk, or any other public property within the corporate limits of the city. Possession of open containers of alcoholic beverages or containers with the seal broken shall be prima facie evidence of consumption.
(21) Consumes alcoholic beverages in a vehicle or not on any public or private parking lot within the corporate limits of the city, except those maintained at establishments holding a valid on-premises license for the retail sale of beer or wine. Possession of open containers of alcoholic beverages or containers with the seal broken shall be prima facie evidence of consumption.
(B) Any person convicted of disorderly conduct, as defined in this section, shall be punished.
(Prior Code, § 130.15) Penalty, see § 130.99
Statutory reference:
Disorderly conduct, see G.S. § 14-288.4