A person shall be guilty of disorderly conduct if, with the purpose of causing public danger, alarm, disorder, nuisance, or if his or her conduct is likely to cause public danger, alarm, disorder, or nuisance, he or she commits any of the following acts in a public place:
(A) Commits an act in a violent manner toward another whereby that other is placed in danger of his or her life or health;
(B) Commits an act in a violent manner toward another whereby the property of any person is placed in danger of being destroyed or damaged;
(C) Causes, provokes, or engages in any fight, brawl, or riotous act so as to endanger the life, health, or property of another;
(D) Interferes with another’s pursuit of a lawful occupation by acts of violence;
(E) Obstructs, either singly or together with other persons, the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic and refuses to clear such public way when ordered to do so by the Police Department or other lawful authority;
(F) Resists or obstructs the performance of duties by the Police Department or any other authorized village official;
(G) Incites, attempts to incite, or is involved in attempting to incite imminent lawless action including rioting, fighting, and other unlawful disturbances;
(H) Use of abusive language or threats to any member of the Police Department, any other authorized village official who is engaged in the lawful performance of his or her duties, or any other person when such words have a direct tendency to cause acts of violence. Words merely causing displeasure, annoyance, or resentment are not prohibited;
(I) Damages, befouls, or disturbs public property or the property of another so as to create a hazardous, unhealthy, or physically offensive condition;
(J) Makes or causes to be made any loud, boisterous, and unreasonable noise or disturbance to the annoyance of any other persons nearby, or near to any public highway, road, street, lane, alley, park, square, or common, whereby the public peace is broken or disturbed, or the traveling public annoyed;
(K) Fails to obey a lawful order to disperse by a police officer where one or more persons are committing acts of disorderly conduct in the immediate vicinity, and the public health and safety is threatened;
(L) Uses abusive or obscene language or makes an obscene gesture in public likely to incite immediate physical retaliation by the hearer;
(M) Assembles with one or more persons for the purpose of using force or violence to disturb the peace;
(N) Appears in any public place and is manifestly under the influence of alcohol, narcotics, or other drug, not therapeutically administered, to the degree that he or she may endanger himself or herself or other persons or property, or alarm or disturb other persons in his or her vicinity;
(O) Transmits in any manner to any police officer, public officer, or public employee a report to the effect that an offense has been committed, knowing at the time of such transmission that there is no reasonable ground for believing that such an offense has been committed; or
(P) Uses paint or other medium in any way to deface, damage, or destroy property.
(Prior Code, § 8-5-10) (Ord. passed 12-13-1993) Penalty, see § 92.99