(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly start a fight or to fight, or to commit any assault or battery, in any public place in the city.
(B) ASSAULT is any willful and unlawful attempt or offer, with force or violence, to do a corporal hurt to another. A BATTERY is any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another.
(C) To use, or attempt of offer to use, force or violence towards the person of another is not unlawful if necessarily committed by a public officer in the performance of any legal duty, or by any other person assisting him or her, or acting by his or her directions.
(Prior Code, § 130.03) Penalty, see § 131.99