(a) As used in this section, referee, umpire, or official means any person charged with the responsibility of interpreting or enforcing the rules governing an athletic event.
(b) As used in this section, athletic event means any softball, baseball, T-ball, ice hockey, soccer, volleyball, basketball, football, track, swimming, golf or other sporting event, in the City.
(c) A referee, umpire, or official eighteen years of age or older is hereby granted authority to suspend the athletic event and request the removal therefrom, by a law enforcement officer, of any person who is or has been engaging in an activity which disrupts, disturb or interferes with such athletic event.
(d) No person shall disrupt, disturb or interfere with an athletic event by either of the following:
(1) Doing any act which disrupts, disturbs or interferes with the due conduct of such event.
(2) Making any utterance, gesture, or display offensive to persons of ordinary sensibilities.
(e) No person leaving an athletic event after being requested by a referee, umpire or official to do so for conduct prohibited by subsection (d) hereof shall return to such athletic event and no person having been removed from an athletic event by a law enforcement officer shall return to such athletic event.
(f) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 93-94. Passed 10-3-94.)