509.03 DISORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION.

   (a)   No person shall recklessly cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to another by doing any of the following:

      (1)   Engaging in fighting, in threatening harm to persons or property, or in violent or turbulent behavior;

      (2)   Making unreasonable noise or offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display, or communicating unwarranted and grossly abusive language to any person, which by its very utterance or usage inflicts injury or tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace;

      (3)   Insulting, taunting or challenging another, under circumstances in which such conduct is likely to provoke a violent response;

      (4)   Hindering or preventing the movement of persons on a public street, road, highway or right of way, or to, from, within or upon public or private property, so as to interfere with the rights of others, and by any act which serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender;

      (5)   Creating a condition which is physically offensive to persons or which presents a risk of physical harm to persons or property, by any act which serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender.

   (b)   No person, while voluntarily intoxicated shall do either of the following:

      (1)   In a public place or in the presence of two or more persons, engage in conduct likely to be offensive or to cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to persons of ordinary sensibilities, which conduct the offender, if he were not intoxicated, should know is likely to have such effect on others;

      (2)   Engage in conduct or create a condition which presents a risk of physical harm to himself or another, or to the property of another.

      (3)   It is the legislative intent that subsection (b) hereof be construed as strict liability offenses.

   (c)   Violation of any statute or ordinance of which an element is operating a motor vehicle, locomotive, watercraft, aircraft or other vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, is not a violation of subsection (b) hereof.

   (d)   If a person appears to an ordinary observer to be intoxicated, it is probable cause to believe that person is voluntarily intoxicated for purposes of subsection (b) hereof.

   (e)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 09-213. Passed 10-7-09.)