CHAPTER 130:  GENERAL OFFENSES
Section
General Provisions
   130.01   Definitions
Offenses Against Public Peace and Safety
   130.15   Public nudity
   130.16   Obstruction of public place
   130.17   Littering
   130.18   Creating nuisance by use of noise producing device
   130.19   Occupying motor vehicle with open container of alcohol
   130.20   Drinking alcoholic beverages in public places; public intoxication
   130.21   Disturbing the peace
   130.22   Assault and battery
   130.23   Disturbance of religious or other lawful assemblage
   130.24   Public use of profane language
Offenses Involving Minors
   130.35   Curfew for minors
   130.36   Furnishing minors with alcohol; minors possessing alcohol
   130.37   Parental responsibilities as to minors
Marihuana Regulations
   130.45   Title
   130.46   Definitions
   130.47   No marihuana establishment
   130.48   Violations and penalties
 
   130.99   Penalty
Cross-reference:
   Prohibition against children in a sexually oriented business, see § 110.41
GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 130.01  DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   PUBLIC PLACE.  Any park, alley, street, sidewalk or parking lot to which the public, or any number of persons of the public has access to, or to which the public is customarily invited or admitted.
   VILLAGE.  The Village of Three Oaks, Berrien County, Michigan.
(Ord. 64, passed 12-2-1976)
OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC PEACE AND SAFETY
§ 130.15  PUBLIC NUDITY.
   (A)   Public nudity. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit or engage in any public nudity.
   (B)   Definition. As used in this section, PUBLIC NUDITY means knowingly or intentionally displaying in a public place, or for payment or promise of payment by any person including, but not limited to, payment or promise of payment of an admission fee, any individual’s genitals or anus with less than a full opaque covering, or a female individual’s breast with less than a fully opaque covering of the nipple and areola. PUBLIC NUDITY shall not include any of the following:
      (1)   A woman’s breast-feeding of a baby whether or not the nipple or areola is exposed during or incidental to the feeding;
      (2)   MATERIAL as defined in Public Act 343 of 1984, § 2, being M.C.L.A. § 752.362; or
      (3)   SEXUALLY EXPLICIT VISUAL MATERIAL as defined in Public Act 33 of 1978, § 3, being M.C.L.A. § 722.673.
   (C)   Other remedies. The remedies and penalties provided in § 130.99 are in addition to all other rights and powers of the village to proceed at law or equity with other and additional appropriate remedies.
(Ord. 140, passed 6-13-2001)  Penalty, see § 130.99
§ 130.16  OBSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC PLACE.
   No person, after having been first requested or ordered by a law enforcement officer or any other person in charge of a public place to move or pass on, shall stand, sit, assemble, loiter or congregate in or on any park, public street, alley, parking lot, way, sidewalk or public place in such manner as to obstruct the free passage of persons who are lawfully passing along such public place or in such manner as may tend to cause or result in a public disturbance.
(Ord. 64, passed 12-2-1976)  Penalty, see § 130.99
§ 130.17  LITTERING.
   No person knowingly, without the consent of the public authority having supervision of public property or the owners of private property, shall dump, deposit, place, throw or leave, or cause or permit the dumping, depositing, placing, throwing or leaving of litter on any public place, as herein defined, or upon private property or waters other than property designated and set aside for such purposes. The term LITTER as used herein shall mean all rubbish, refuse, waste, material, garbage, paper, glass, cans, bottles, trash, debris or other foreign substances of every kind and description.
(Ord. 64, passed 12-2-1976)  Penalty, see § 130.99
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