(a) No person shall loiter in a public place in such a manner as to:
(1) Create or cause to be created a danger of breach of the peace;
(2) Create or cause to be created any disturbance or annoyance to the comfort and repose of any person;
(3) Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles;
(4) Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully in any public place;
(5) Purposely and without the consent of the owner, sit upon, lean against or cause any other contact to be made to any motor vehicle or bicycle owned by another and parked in spaces provided by the City.
(Ord. 80-15. Passed 3-10-80.)
(b) No person shall make any unreasonable noise or offensively course utterance, gesture, or display or communicate unwarranted and grossly abusive language to any person which is calculated to annoy or disturb the person to, or in whose hearing, they are made.
(c) Whenever the presence of any person in any public or private place is causing or likely to cause any of the conditions enumerated in subsections (a) or (b) herein, any police officer may order that person to leave that place. Any person who refuses to leave after being ordered to do so by a police officer, is in violation of this section. A request to leave shall be made prior to an arrest under this section.
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on the first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. This section does not apply to those persons who are engaged in picketing or other related activities associated with a labor/management dispute over wages, hours and working conditions.
(Ord. 80-15. Passed 3-10-80; Ord. 96-46. Passed 7-22-96.)