(A) No person shall, without legal privilege to do so, and whether alone or with others, purposely or recklessly obstruct or cause to be obstructed any public passage or place.
(B) No person without legal privilege shall block, impede, or otherwise interfere with the normal flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic upon a public street by means of a barricade, object, or device, or with his or her person. This division (B) shall not apply to persons maintaining, rearranging, or constructing public utility facilities in or adjacent to a street.
(C) No person shall refuse or knowingly fail to obey a reasonable official order or request to move to prevent obstruction of any public passage or place or blockage, impediment, or other interference with the normal flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic upon a public street.
(D) OBSTRUCT and OBSTRUCTION mean to render impassable or unusable without unreasonable inconvenience or hazard.
(E) When persons are lawfully assembled in a public place to communicate publicly or to listen to or observe such communication, no person (including communicators) so assembled shall be convicted of recklessly obstructing in violation of division (A) above unless he or she has first been given a reasonable opportunity to comply with division (C) above.
(F) No person whose lawful behavior attracts an obstructing audience shall be guilty of violating division (C) above if the obstruction can be readily remedied by reasonable police control of the size or location of the audience.
(Prior Code, § 130.19) (Ord. D-665, passed 9-8-1964, effective 11-1-1964; Ord. D-1119, passed 10-7-1974, effective 10-17-1974) Penalty, see § 130.99