(A) The following requirements shall apply equally to parades and pickets.
(1) Firearms and weapons. No firearms or dangerous weapons of any kind may be possessed, either exposed or concealed, by any participant in the parade, or any person affiliated with and present at the parade, or any person upon any street, sidewalk or other public place within 500 feet of the parade. This restriction shall not apply to law enforcement officers, park rangers, soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces and National Guard, while within the course and scope of their official duties and when reasonably necessary to perform official governmental duties of the organization.
(2) Signs and posters. No hand-carried signs or posters transported in any parade or picket shall be of greater density than eight-ply, .030 thickness cardboard. No support for the sign or poster shall be of a metallic substances, nor thicker than one inch by two inches.
(3) Responsibility for conduct. The person designated on the application or notice as the activity chairperson or comparable party shall be physically present and shall accept responsibility for compliance with any and all relevant conditions and restrictions. This person shall carry the parade permit or receipt of notice issued by the Sheriff on his or her person at all times from initial assembly through final dispersement.
(4) Waiver. The applicant shall file with the Sheriff a waiver, signed by the applicant, releasing and saving all officers, appointees, officials, deputies, employees of the county and the Sheriff of the county harmless for any claims, actions and lawsuits arising out of the conduct of the parade or picket, excepting those injuries or damages unlawfully and proximately caused by those persons named herein.
(5) Interference with activity. Every parade shall follow the route designated and approved in the permit issued. No person shall unreasonably hamper, obstruct, impede or interfere with any parade assembly or picket, or with any person, vehicle or animal participation or used in a parade or picket.
(6) Assembly prior to beginning. At any time prior to actual commencement of the parade or picket, the Sheriff or his or her authorized representative may request the parade chairperson or other responsible party to have all participants in the parade make available all signs, posters and supports for inspection to ensure compliance with this section. Failure or refusal to cooperate with the inspection shall void and invalidate the parade permit until the time as the items are either made available for inspection, removed at least 500 feet from the parade or picket route or all participants who possess the items withdraw physically to a position at least 500 feet from the parade or picket route. No such inspection or compliance procedure shall alter in any manner the permitted time periods for any parade.
(B) The following standards shall apply to the conduct of pickets or picketing activities.
(1) Picketing shall be conducted only on portions of the public ways not otherwise regulated and not used primarily for vehicular parking or moving traffic.
(2) Any signs or posters carried by any picket must not exceed 24 inches on any side and must otherwise comply with the conditions of this section.
(3) Pickets must, if marching, march in single file, not abreast, and may not march closer together than 15 feet, except in passing one another. Pickets not marching shall remain at least 15 feet apart.
(4) If pickets promoting different objectives, causes, actions or policies desire to use a sidewalk or public right-of-way that is already used for picketing, the Sheriff or his or her designated agents may allot a number of pickets promoting each objective to use the sidewalk or public way on an equitable basis, proportionate to the number of objectives being promoted.
(5) Pickets shall be restricted to the use of the outermost half of the sidewalk or other public way nearest the street and shall not at any time nor in any way obstruct, interfere with, or block persons entering or exiting from vehicles, persons crossing streets or otherwise using the public way, the entrance or exit to any building or access to property abutting the street or sidewalk or pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
(1984 Code, § 2-12-21) (Ord. passed 6-2-1986) Penalty, see § 93.99