For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE. Shall have the same meaning as that term is given in the Michigan Liquor Control Code, Public Act 58 of 1998, being M.C.L. §§ 436.1101 et seq.
LOITER.
(1) To stand or lounge around or move slowly about, to spend time idly, to saunter, or to linger; or
(2) To repeatedly pass the same place without any apparent reason.
OBSCENE COMMUNICATION. Discussion, description, or representation of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sado-masochistic abuse which, when taken as a whole, the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find appeals to the prurient or morbid interest; which depicts or describes nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sado-masochistic abuse in a patently offensive way; and which when taken as a whole lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
PUBLIC PLACE.
(1) A place to which the public or a substantial group of persons has access. Among places included are any:
(a) Highway, street, road, alley, sidewalk, park, parking lot, river, public water, wharf, dock, waterfront, publicly-owned or controlled open ground;
(b) Publicly-owned or controlled building, excluding any interior portion thereof being used as a dwelling;
(c) Place of business;
(d) Place of amusement, entertainment, recreation, or education open to the general public;
(e) Place where services are rendered to the public or a substantial group of persons;
(f) Transport facility;
(g) Public conveyance;
(h) Place of religious worship;
(i) Place of manufacturing;
(j) Railroad right-of-way;
(k) Hospital;
(l) Cemetery;
(m) Common area of any hotel or apartment building;
(n) Private meeting place when a privately employed special-duty police officer, special-duty deputy sheriff, or deputy sheriff is on duty there;
(o) Grounds appurtenant to any of the above designated; and
(p) Parking facility used in connection with any of the above designated.
(2) The foregoing enumeration shall be deemed partial and shall not operate to exclude other places which are within the general terms of this definition.
(Prior Code, § 130.15) (Ord. D-665, passed 9-8-1964, effective 11-1-1964; Ord. D-1170, passed 8-25-1975, effective 9-4-1975)