Any person who shall do or engage in any of the following shall be guilty of the offense of disorderly conduct:
(A) Any person who shall act in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another whereby any person is placed in danger of safety of his or her life, limb, or health;
(B) Any person who shall act in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another whereby public property or property of any other person is placed in danger of being destroyed or damaged;
(C) Any person who shall endanger lawful pursuits of another by acts of violence or threats of bodily harm;
(D) Any person who shall cause, provoke, or engage in any fight, brawl, or riotous conduct so as to endanger the life, limb, health, or property of another or public property;
(E) Any person who shall assemble or congregate with another or others and cause, provoke, or engage in any fight or brawl;
(F) Any person who shall assemble in bodies or in crowds and engage in unlawful activities;
(G) Any person who shall assemble or congregate with another or others and engage or attempt to engage in gaming;
(H) Any person who shall frequent any public place and obtain money from another by an illegal and fraudulent scheme, trick, artifice, or device, or attempt to do so;
(I) Any person who assembles with another or others and engages in any fraudulent scheme, device, or trick to obtain any valuable thing in any place or from any person, or attempts to do so;
(J) Any person who utters, in a public place or any place open to the public, any obscene words or epithets;
(K) Any person who frequents any place where gaming or the illegal sale or possession of alcoholic beverages or narcotics or dangerous drugs is practiced, allowed, or tolerated;
(L) Any person who shall use fight provoking words directed toward any person who becomes outraged and thus creates turmoil;
(M) Any person who shall assemble or congregate with another or others and do bodily harm to another;
(N) Any person who shall, by acts of violence, interfere with another’s pursuit of a lawful occupation;
(O) Any person who shall congregate with another or others in or on any public way so as to halt the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic and refuses to clear such public way when ordered to do so by a peace officer or other person having authority;
(P) Any person who damages, befouls, or disturbs public property or the property of another so as to create a hazardous, unhealthy, or physically offensive condition;
(Q) Any person who shall conduct himself or herself in a noisy, boisterous, or tumultuous manner, to the disturbance of the peace of the city, or the peace and quiet of the neighborhood or of any lawful assembly of people, or to be intoxicated to such a degree as to be noisy or annoying to a neighborhood or any of the inhabitants thereof;
(R) Any person who shall conduct himself or herself upon any street or other public place in any manner which shall annoy, worry, or harass another; or to willfully shove, injure, annoy, obstruct, or hinder any person passing along or upon any sidewalk or street;
(S) Any person who shall engage in any conduct of a disorderly nature, or to engage in any conduct tending toward a breach of the peace. The causing or making of any unnecessary loud noise or shouting or yelling shall be considered disorderly conduct; or
(T) Any person who shall be in any of the places mentioned in this section and there engage in any brawl, quarrel, loud or offensive talking, or engage another in any dispute or argument, the effect of which is to draw a crowd and block or partially block any of such places for public use and travel.
(Prior Code, § 17-26) Penalty, see § 130.999
Cross-reference:
Dispersal of riots and unlawful assemblies; arrest of persons who disobey command to disperse, see § 93.09