As used in this Article, the following terms mean:
PRIVATE PROPERTY
Any place which at the time of the offense is not open to the public. It includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
PROPERTY OF ANOTHER
Any property in which the person does not have a possessory interest.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place which at the time of the offense is open to the public. It includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
A. 
A person commits the offense of peace disturbance if he or she:
1. 
Unreasonably and knowingly disturbs or alarms another person or persons by:
a. 
Loud noise; or
b. 
Offensive language addressed in a face-to-face manner to a specific individual and uttered under circumstances which are likely to produce an immediate violent response from a reasonable recipient; or
c. 
Threatening to commit a felonious act against any person under circumstances which are likely to cause a reasonable person to fear that such threat may be carried out; or
d. 
Fighting; or
e. 
Creating a noxious and offensive odor.
2. 
Is in a public place or on private property of another without consent and purposely causes inconvenience to another person or persons by unreasonably and physically obstructing:
a. 
Vehicular or pedestrian traffic; or
b. 
The free ingress or egress to or from a public or private place.
A. 
A person commits the offense of private peace disturbance if he/she is on private property and unreasonably and purposely causes alarm to another person or persons on the same premises by:
1. 
Threatening to commit an offense against any person; or
2. 
Fighting.
B. 
For purposes of this Section, if a building or structure is divided into separately occupied units, such units are separate premises.
A person commits the offense of unlawful assembly if he/she knowingly assembles with six (6) or more other persons and agrees with such persons to violate any of the criminal laws of this State or of the United States with force or violence.
A person commits the offense of rioting if he/she knowingly assembles with six (6) or more other persons and agrees with such persons to violate any of the criminal laws of this State or of the United States with force or violence and thereafter, while still so assembled, does violate any of said laws with force or violence.
A person commits the offense of refusal to disperse if, being present at the scene of an unlawful assembly or at the scene of a riot, he/she knowingly fails or refuses to obey the lawful command of a Law Enforcement Officer to depart from the scene of such unlawful assembly or riot.
A. 
Definition. The following term shall be defined as follows:
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place to which the general public has access and a right of resort for business, entertainment or other lawful purpose, but does not necessarily mean a place devoted solely to the uses of the public. It shall also include the front or immediate area of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern or other place of business and also public grounds, areas or parks.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to stand or remain idle either alone or in consort with others in a public place in such manner so 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;
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 or facing or fronting on any such 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;
3. 
Obstruct the entrance to any business establishment, without so doing for some lawful purpose, if contrary to the expressed wish of the owner, lessee, managing agent or person in control or charge of the building or premises.
C. 
When any person causes or commits any of the conditions in this Section, a Police Officer or any Law Enforcement Officer shall order that person to stop causing or committing such conditions and to move on or disperse. Any person who fails or refuses to obey such orders shall be guilty of a violation of this Section.
[Ord. No. 1223, 7-17-2023]
A. 
No sleeping or camping in a public street or right-of-way.
B. 
No person shall camp in any public park, except in areas specifically designated for such use.
C. 
For purposes of this Section:
CAMP
Residing in or using a park or street for living accommodation purposes, such as sleeping activities or making preparations to sleep or storing personal belongings or making any fire or using any tents, regularly cooking or preparing meals or living in a parked vehicle.
MAKING PREPARATIONS TO SLEEP
Includes, but is not limited to, laying down of bedding for the purpose of sleeping.
PERSONAL BELONGINGS
Includes, but is not limited to, clothing, sleeping bags, bedrolls, blankets, sheets, luggage, backpacks, kitchen utensils, cookware and similar material.
PUBLIC LAND
Includes parking lots and any public area, improved or unimproved, public sidewalks and public benches.
PUBLIC PARKS
Includes all municipal parks.
D. 
The activities set forth in the definition of "camp" in Subsection (C) of this Section constitute camping when it reasonably appears in light of all the circumstances that a person is using a park or street as a living accommodation.
A. 
For purposes of this Section, "house of worship" means any church, synagogue, mosque, other building or structure, or public or private place used for religious worship, religious instruction, or other religious purpose.
B. 
A person commits the offense of disrupting a house of worship if such person:
1. 
Intentionally and unreasonably disturbs, interrupts, or disquiets any house of worship by using profane discourse, rude or indecent behavior, or making noise either within the house of worship or so near it as to disturb the order and solemnity of the worship services; or
2. 
Intentionally injures, intimidates, or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate, or interfere with any person lawfully exercising the right of religious freedom in or outside of a house of worship or seeking access to a house of worship, whether by force, threat, or physical obstruction.
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Note: Under certain circumstances this offense can be a felony under state law.
A. 
A person commits the offense of unlawful funeral protest if he or she pickets or engages in other protest activities within three hundred (300) feet of any residence, cemetery, funeral home, church, synagogue or other establishment during or within one (1) hour before or one (1) hour after the conducting of any actual funeral or burial service at that place.
B. 
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following terms mean:
OTHER PROTEST ACTIVITIES
Any action that is disruptive or undertaken to disrupt or disturb a funeral or burial service.
FUNERAL and BURIAL SERVICE
The ceremonies and memorial services held in conjunction with the burial or cremation of the dead, but this Section does not apply to processions while they are in transit beyond any three-hundred-foot zone that is established under Subsection (A) above.
C. 
The offense of unlawful funeral protest shall be an ordinance violation.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to create any unreasonably loud, disturbing, or unnecessary noise within the City. Noise of such a character, intensity or duration as to be detrimental to the health of any individual, disturb the public peace and welfare, or is offensive to persons within the immediate vicinity of the source of said noise is prohibited.
B. 
The following acts, among others are declared to be loud, disturbing, offensive and unnecessary noises and constitute violations of this Section, but this enumeration shall not be deemed to be exclusive:
1. 
Noisy vehicles. The use or operation of any automobile, motorcycle or other motor vehicle so out of repair, or in such a manner as to create loud or unnecessary noises.
2. 
Engine exhausts. To discharge into the open air the exhaust of any motor vehicle engine, except through a muffler or other device which will effectively prevent loud or explosive noises therefrom.
3. 
Loud speakers and amplifiers. The use of mechanical loud speakers, amplifiers, or other noise making devices on either moving or standing motor vehicles at any time or place within the City, including, but not limited to, on any public street, right-of-way, or private property, so as to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of persons in the immediate vicinity of said motor vehicle.
[Ord. No. 1183, 3-21-2022]
A. 
Any person who, with intent to provoke a breach of the peace or to cause violence to persons or property, commits any of the following acts shall be deemed to have committed the offense of disorderly conduct:
1. 
Acts in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another, placing such person in fear of safety of life, limb or health.
2. 
Acts in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another, whereby property of any person is placed in danger of being destroyed or damaged.
3. 
Endangers lawful pursuits of another by acts of violence, angry threats and abusive conduct.
4. 
Causes, provokes or engages in any fight, brawl or riotous conduct so as to endanger the life, limb, health or property of another.
5. 
Assembles or congregates with another or others for the purpose of causing, provoking or engaging in any fight or brawl.
6. 
Jostles or roughly crowds or pushes any person in a public place.
7. 
Frequents any public place with intent to obtain money from another by an illegal and fraudulent scheme, trick, artifice or device.
8. 
Assembles with another or others for the purpose of engaging in any fraudulent scheme, device or trick to obtain any valuable thing in any place or from any person in the City, or to aid or abet therein.
9. 
Any male person accosts or attempts to force his company upon any female or attempts to pick up any female.
10. 
Uses "fighting words" directed towards another who becomes outraged and thus creates turmoil.
11. 
Assembles or congregates with another or others for the purpose of doing bodily harm to another.
12. 
Any person, by acts of violence, interferes with another's pursuit of a lawful occupation.
13. 
Congregates 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 by a peace officer or other lawful authority.
14. 
Congregates with others on a public street and refuses to move on when ordered by the police.
15. 
By actions taken causes a crowd to collect, except when lawfully addressing such crowd.
16. 
Takes up a position on the public streets or follows pedestrians for the purpose of soliciting alms, or who solicits alms on the public streets unlawfully.
17. 
Causes a disturbance in any bus or other public conveyance by running through it, climbing through windows or upon the seats, or otherwise annoying passengers or employees thereto.
18. 
Stands on sidewalks or street corners and makes insulting remarks to or about passing pedestrians or annoys such pedestrians.
19. 
Wanders, prowls, or loiters upon the private property of another and peeks or peers in the door or window or attempts to open any door or window of any habitable buildings or structure located thereon, without any visible or lawful business with the owners or occupants thereof.
B. 
Penalty. The range of punishment for any person violating this Section shall be up to ninety (90) days in jail and/or a fine up to five hundred dollars ($500.00).