A. Disorderly Conduct: No person shall commit disorderly conduct in the City. A person commits disorderly conduct when he knowingly:
1. Does any act in such an unreasonable manner as to provoke, make or aid in making a breach of the peace;
2. Does or makes any unreasonable or offensive act, utterance, gesture or display which, under the circumstances, creates a clear and present danger of a breach of the peace or imminent threat of violence;
3. Refuses or fails to cease and desist any peaceful conduct or activity likely to produce a breach of the peace where there is an imminent threat of violence, and where the police have made all reasonable efforts to protect the otherwise peaceful conduct and activity, and have requested that said conduct and activity be stopped and explained the request if there be time;
4. Fails to obey a lawful order of dispersal by a person known by him to be a police officer under circumstances where three (3) or more persons are committing acts of disorderly conduct in the immediate vicinity, which acts are likely to cause substantial harm or serious inconvenience, annoyance or alarm;
5. Assembles with three (3) or more persons for the purpose of using force or violence to disturb the public peace;
6. Goes about begging or soliciting funds on the public ways, except as provided for by ordinance or upon lawful authority of the City 1 ;
7. Carries in a threatening or menacing manner, without authority of law, any pistol, revolver, dagger, razor, dangerous knife, stiletto, knuckles, slingshot, an object containing noxious or deleterious liquid, gas or substance or other dangerous weapon, or conceals said weapon on or about the person or vehicle;
8. Pickets or demonstrates on a public way within one hundred fifty feet (150') of any primary or secondary school building while school is in session, or one-half (1/2) hour before the school is in session or one-half (1/2) hour after the school session has been concluded, provided that this subsection does not prohibit the peaceful picketing of any school involved in a labor dispute;
9. Pickets or demonstrates on a public way within one hundred fifty feet (150') of any church, temple, synagogue or other place of worship while services are being conducted, or one- half (1/2) hour before services are to be conducted, or one- half (1/2) hour after services have been concluded, provided that this subsection does not prohibit the peaceful picketing of any church, temple, synagogue or other place of worship involved in a labor dispute;
10. Defaces or destroys or threatens to deface or destroy property, either public or private;
11. By voice or by other means makes noise at such place, at such times, and under such circumstances, to a degree offensive to those nearby; (Ord. 172, 5-20-1974)
12. Knowingly resists or obstructs a police officer from performing any authorized act within his official capacity; (Ord. 1279, 10-4-1993)
13. Engages in fighting in a public place;
14. Discharges a firearm within the corporate boundaries of the city;
15. Commits an assault upon another person by engaging in conduct, without lawful authority, which places another in reasonable apprehension of receiving a battery;
16. Commits a battery upon another person, by intentionally or knowingly, without legal justification and by any means: a) causing bodily harm to another individual, or b) making physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature with another individual; (Ord. 1380, 3-20-1995)
17. Brandishes, carries or transports any toy firearm, toy cannon, air rifle, air gun, or air pistol or any object or instrument that is indistinguishable from a real firearm that expels projectiles, whether by air, spring, explosive substance, or other force, or any gun of like character made, constructed or altered so that, to a reasonable person, the object would appear to be a real firearm, except upon premises used by a designated shooting gallery, gun club or rifle club. (Ord. 2561, 1-4-2010)
B. Loitering: It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter, loaf, wander, stand or remain idle either alone or in consort with others in a public place in such manner as to:
1. Obstruct any public street, public highway, public sidewalk or any other public place or building by hindering or impeding or tending to hinder or impede the free and uninterrupted passage of vehicles, traffic or pedestrians; or
2. Commit in or upon any public street, public highway, public sidewalk or any other public place or building any act or thing which is an obstruction or interference to the free and uninterrupted use of property or with any business lawfully conducted by anyone in or upon, facing or fronting on any public street, public highway, public sidewalk or any other public place or building, all of which prevents the free and uninterrupted ingress, egress and regress, therein, thereon and thereto. (Ord. 172, 5-20-1974)
Notes
| 1 | 1. See title 3, chapter 4 of this Code. |