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TUCSON, ARIZONA CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES
ADOPTING ORDINANCES
PART I CHARTER*
PART II TUCSON CODE
Chapter 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 2 ADMINISTRATION*
Chapter 3 RESERVED*
Chapter 4 ANIMALS AND FOWL*
Chapter 5 BICYCLES AND SHARED MOBILITY DEVICES*
Chapter 6 BUILDINGS, ELECTRICITY, PLUMBING, AND MECHANICAL CODE*
Chapter 7 BUSINESSES REGULATED*
Chapter 7A CABLE COMMUNICATIONS*
Chapter 7B COMPETITIVE TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Chapter 7C RESERVED*
Chapter 7D LOCATION AND RELOCATION OF FACILITIES IN RIGHTS-OF-WAY
Chapter 8 CITY COURT*
Chapter 9 PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS*
Chapter 10 CIVIL SERVICE--HUMAN RESOURCES*
Chapter 10A COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
Chapter 10B HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT*
Chapter 10C RESERVED*
Chapter 11 CRIMES AND OFFENSES*
ARTICLE I. IN GENERAL
Sec. 11-1. Air guns, slings, bean shooters, etc.
Sec. 11-2. Reserved.
Sec. 11-3. Apiaries.
Sec. 11-4. Blasting.
Sec. 11-5. Burning trash, other articles--Prohibited generally; declared nuisance.
Sec. 11-6. Same--Permit required.
Sec. 11-7. Same--Application for permit; issuance or denial; fee.
Sec. 11-8. Same--Permit not required for cooking devices.
Sec. 11-9. Same--Information shown on permit; failure to comply with conditions; duration.
Sec. 11-10. Same--Dense smoke defined; chart adopted.
Sec. 11-11. Same--Penalty; abatement.
Sec. 11-12. City property; squatting on prohibited.
Sec. 11-13. Criminal syndicalism and sabotage--Defined.
Sec. 11-14. Same--Acts prohibited.
Sec. 11-15. Dance halls; operation near residences.
Sec. 11-16. Disorderly houses or premises; keeping.
Sec. 11-17. Drinking establishments--Loitering in, frequenting during hours closed.
Sec. 11-18. Same--Allowing frequenting during hours closed.
Sec. 11-19. Reserved.
Sec. 11-20. False information; furnishing to police.
Sec. 11-21. Filling stations prohibited on portion of Congress Street.
Sec. 11-22. Fireworks.
Sec. 11-23. Reserved.
Sec. 11-24. Food and drink establishments--Soliciting or annoying customers.
Sec. 11-25. Same--Responsibility of proprietor.
Sec. 11-25.1. Clothing requirements of certain female entertainers and waitresses.
Sec. 11-25.2. Operation of certain restaurants, etc., where female entertainers fail to meet certain clothing requirements deemed misdemeanor.
Sec. 11-25.3. Clothing requirements of certain dancers, etc.
Sec. 11-25.4. Operation of restaurants, etc., where certain dancers, etc. fail to meet certain clothing requirements, deemed misdemeanor.
Sec. 11-26. Reserved.
Sec. 11-27. Same--False entries on register.
Sec. 11-28. Indecency, lewdness--Acts prohibited.
Sec. 11-28.1. Same--Minimum penalty; subsequent convictions.
Sec. 11-29. Indecent exposure.
Sec. 11-30. Prohibition of hate crimes and institutional vandalism; penalties.
Sec. 11-30.1. Same--Minimum penalty; subsequent convictions.
Sec. 11-31. Lampposts, hydrants, brackets; injuring.
Sec. 11-32. Legal business; soliciting by police.
Sec. 11-33. Aggressive solicitation, legislative findings; definitions.
Sec. 11-33.1. Prohibited acts.
Sec. 11-33.2. Penalties.
Sec. 11-34. Juveniles; curfew.
Sec. 11-35. Vapor releasing substances containing toxic substances.
Sec. 11-36. Sitting and lying down on public sidewalks in downtown and neighborhood commercial zones.
Sec. 11-37. Minors: Playing, loitering about railroad property.
Sec. 11-38. Prompt payment.
Sec. 11-39. Permitting or encouraging underage drinking.
Sec. 11-40. Narcotics--Keeping paraphernalia; acting as lookout.
Sec. 11-41. Same--Seizure, destruction of paraphernalia.
Sec. 11-42. Offensive establishments.
Sec. 11-43. Prostitutes--Prohibited.
Sec. 11-44. Same--Furnishing intoxicants to.
Sec. 11-45. Same--Consuming intoxicants in room occupied by.
Sec. 11-46. Reserved.
Sec. 11-46.1. Dangerous off-site waste.
Sec. 11-47. Same--Prohibited.
Sec. 11-48. Same--Complaints; investigation; prosecution.
Sec. 11-49. Public property; injuring.
Sec. 11-50. Boarding, alighting from moving trains.
Sec. 11-51. Reserved.
Sec. 11-52. Loitering, congregating about railroad yards.
Sec. 11-53. Soliciting passengers or baggage at railways or hotels.
Sec. 11-54. Urinating or defecating in public.
Sec. 11-55. Definition of firearm and air gun; possession of firearms and air guns by minors; forfeiture of weapon, penalties.
Sec. 11-56. Reporting of stolen and/or lost firearms required.
Sec. 11-57. Reserved.
Sec. 11-58. Water ditches, natural drainage channels--Deposit of offensive matter; obstructions.
Sec. 11-59. Same--Duty of abutting property owners to clean.
Sec. 11-60. Same--Duty to clean upon notice.
Sec. 11-61. Same--How notice to clean given; failure to comply.
Sec. 11-62. Same--Nuisances declared.
Sec. 11-63. Same--Violations, penalties.
Sec. 11-64. Professional strikebreakers; employment, recruitment or furnishing as replacements for employees involved in labor disputes unlawful.
Sec. 11-65. Unattended child in motor vehicle; classification.
Sec. 11-66. Throwing stars; sale to minors prohibited, possession by minors prohibited.
Sec. 11-67. Prohibition of certain automatic dialing and prerecorded message alarm systems.
Sec. 11-68. Prohibition of containers in community center premises.
Sec. 11-69. Prohibition of certain items and activities at the Rodeo Parade and other parade events.
Sec. 11-70. Police authority over Rodeo Parade peddlers.
Sec. 11-70.1. Operating motor vehicle off the roadway prohibited; definitions; exceptions; impoundment; hearing; penalties.
Sec. 11-70.2. Violation declared misdemeanor; penalties.
Secs. 11-70.3, 11-70.4. Reserved.
ARTICLE II. METHAMPHETAMINE; SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS*
ARTICLE III. SMOKING*
ARTICLE IV. CIVIL EMERGENCIES--POWERS OF THE MAYOR
ARTICLE V. INTERFERENCE WITH FIRE DEPARTMENT*
ARTICLE VI. OBSTRUCTION OF ENFORCEMENT OF CIVIL INFRACTIONS
ARTICLE VII. NITROUS OXIDE
ARTICLE VIII. RESERVED*
ARTICLE IX. RESERVED*
Chapter 11A GENERAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT*
Chapter 11B PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT*
Chapter 12 ELECTIONS*
Chapter 12A BUSINESS SERVICES DEPARTMENT
Chapter 13 FIRE PROTECTION AND PREVENTION*
Chapter 14 LABOR ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEE ASSOCIATION ELECTION PROCEDURE, MEET AND CONFER AND MEET AND DISCUSS*
Chapter 15 ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT*
Chapter 16 NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION*
Chapter 17 HUMAN RELATIONS*
Chapter 18 SELF-INSURED RISK PROGRAM AND TRUST FUND*
Chapter 19 LICENSES AND PRIVILEGE TAXES*
Chapter 20 MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC*
Chapter 21 PARKS AND RECREATION*
Chapter 22 PENSIONS, RETIREMENT, GROUP INSURANCE, LEAVE BENEFITS AND OTHER INSURANCE BENEFITS*
Chapter 23 LAND USE CODE*
Chapter 23A DEVELOPMENT COMPLIANCE CODE*
Chapter 23B UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE*
Chapter 24 SEWERAGE AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL*
Chapter 25 STREETS AND SIDEWALKS*
Chapter 26 FLOODPLAIN, STORMWATER, AND EROSION HAZARD MANAGEMENT*
Chapter 27 WATER*
Chapter 28 TUCSON PROCUREMENT CODE*
Chapter 29 ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 30 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION*
DISPOSITION TABLE - 1953 CODE
CODE COMPARATIVE TABLE
Tucson, AZ Unified Development Code
Tucson Administrative Directives
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Sec. 11-13. Criminal syndicalism and sabotage--Defined.
The term "criminal syndicalism," as used in this section, is hereby defined as any doctrine or precept advocating, teaching or aiding and abetting the commission of crime, sabotage or unlawful acts of force and violence or unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accomplishing a change in industrial ownership or control or affecting any political change. The term "sabotage" is hereby defined as meaning willful and malicious physical damage or injury to physical property.
(1953 Code, ch. 18, § 6)
Sec. 11-14. Same--Acts prohibited.
Any person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor who:
   Sec. 11-14(1). By spoken or written words or personal conduct advocates, teaches or aids and abets criminal syndicalism or the duty, necessity or propriety of committing crime, sabotage, violence or any unlawful method of terrorism, as a means of accomplishing a change in industrial ownership or control, or affecting any political change; or
   Sec. 11-14(2). Willfully and deliberately by spoken or written words justifies or attempts to justify criminal syndicalism or the commission or attempt to commit crime, sabotage, violence or unlawful methods of terrorism with intent to approve, advocate or further the doctrine of criminal syndicalism; or
   Sec. 11-14(3). Prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates or otherwise dispose of, or publicly displays any book, paper, pamphlet, document, poster or written or printed matter in any other form, containing or carrying written or printed advocacy, teaching or in aid and abetment of, or advising, criminal syndicalism; or
   Sec. 11-14(4). Organizes, or assists in organizing, or knowingly becomes a member of, any organization, society, group or assemblage of persons organized or assembled to advocate, teach or aid and abet criminal syndicalism; or
   Sec. 11-14(5). Willfully by personal act or conduct, practices or commits any act advised, advocated, taught or aided and abetted by the doctrine or precept of criminal syndicalism; with intent to accomplish a change in industrial ownership or control, or affecting any political change; or
   Sec. 11-14(6). Voluntarily assembles with any society or assembly of persons, which advocates, teaches, aides or abets criminal syndicalism, upon the streets, sidewalks, alleys or other public places in the city or in any place, building, room or structure in the city.
(1953 Code, ch. 18, § 7)
Sec. 11-15. Dance halls; operation near residences.
It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain, conduct, carry on or operate any dance hall within five hundred (500) feet of any private residence in the city. For the purposes of this section, a dance hall is hereby defined to be any hall, room, platform or place where public dances are held.
(1953 Code, ch. 18, § 8)
Sec. 11-16. Disorderly houses or premises; keeping.
Any person who shall keep any common ill-governed or disorderly house, or who shall suffer any drunkenness, quarreling, fighting and unlawful games, or riotous or disorderly conduct whatever on his premises, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(1953 Code, ch. 18, § 9)
Sec. 11-17. Drinking establishments--Loitering in, frequenting during hours closed.
It shall be unlawful for any person other than a licensee or an employee of the licensee engaged in job-related activity to be present on the premises of licensed liquor establishments as defined in A.R.S. § 4-209.B(6), (7), (8) or (14) or subsequent definition of such establishments by state law between the hours of 2:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. daily. It shall be an affirmative defense for a licensee or an employee of the licensee to allow an intoxicated person to remain on the premises for a period of time not to exceed thirty (30) minutes after the state of intoxication is known or should be known to the licensee in order that a non-intoxicated person may transport the intoxicated person from the premises.
(1953 Code, ch. 18, § 10; Ord. No. 4034, § 1, 2-19-74; Ord. No. 6076, § 1, 9-4-84; Ord. No. 7100, § 1, 12-12-88; Ord. No. 10007, § 1, 8-2-04; Ord. No. 10825, § 1, 8-4-10)
Sec. 11-18. Same--Allowing frequenting during hours closed.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning, operating, managing or employed in any of the places designated in section 11-17 to allow any person of the general public to be present at such places between the hours designated in section 11-17. It shall be an affirmative defense for a licensee or an employee of the licensee to allow an intoxicated person to remain on the premises for a period of time not to exceed thirty (30) minutes after the state of intoxication is known or should be known to the licensee in order that a nonintoxicated person may transport the intoxicated person from the premises.
(1953 Code, ch. 18, § 11; Ord. No. 6076, § 2, 9-4-84)
Sec. 11-19. Reserved.
   Editors Note: Ord. No. 10421, § 1, adopted June 19, 2007, repealed § 11-19, which pertained to regulation of smoking in restaurants; definitions; civil infractions; phase-in; hardship exceptions; penalties and derived from Ord. No. 9220, § 1, adopted April 12, 1999; Ord. No. 9302, § 1, adopted Oct. 11, 1999.
   Cross References: Smoke-Free Arizona Act.
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