[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Middletown 1-18-2022. Amendments noted where applicable.]
It is prohibited for any person, age of 16 years or older, to engage in disorderly conduct in any City facility, park, playground, property, parking lot, street or sidewalk. A person is guilty of disorderly conduct when he or she, with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof:
A. 
Engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous or threatening behavior; or
B. 
Makes unreasonable noise; or
C. 
Uses abusive or obscene language, or makes an obscene gesture; or
D. 
Without lawful authority, disturbs any lawful assembly or meeting of persons; or
E. 
Obstructs vehicular or pedestrian traffic; or
F. 
Congregates with other persons in a public place and refuses to comply with a lawful order of the police to disperse; or
G. 
Creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose.
It is prohibited for any person, age of 16 years or older, to engage in harassment in any City facility, park, playground, property, parking lot, street or sidewalk. A person is guilty of harassment when he or she, with intent to harass, annoy or alarm another person:
A. 
Strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise subjects such other person to physical contact, or attempts or threatens to do the same; or
B. 
Follows a person in or about a public place or places; or
C. 
Engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly commits acts which alarm or seriously annoy such other person and which serve no legitimate purpose.
It is prohibited for any person, age of 16 years or older, to obstruct governmental administration. A person is guilty of obstructing governmental administration when he or she intentionally obstructs, impairs or perverts the administration of this chapter or any other provision of the Middletown City Code, or prevents or attempts to prevent a public servant from performing an official function involving the administration of this chapter or any other provision of the Middletown City Code, by means of intimidation, physical force or interference, or by means of any independently unlawful act.
It is prohibited for any person, age of 16 years or older, to resist arrest. A person is guilty of resisting arrest when he intentionally prevents or attempts to prevent a police officer or peace officer from effecting an authorized arrest of himself or another person for violation of any provision of this chapter or any other chapter of the Middletown City Code.
A person who shall violate any provision of this chapter shall be guilty, upon conviction, of an offense punishable by a fine not less than $250 nor more than $1,000 or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.