[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Kingston 8-7-1984
by L.L. No. 3-1984, approved 8-28-1984, as Ch. 40 of the 1984 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Container hazards — See Ch. 188.
Curfew — See Ch. 191.
Emergency regulations — See Ch. 208.
Exhibitions and shows — See Ch. 213.
Fortune-telling — See Ch. 238.
Municipal stadium regulations — See Ch. 295.
Noise — See Ch. 300.
Parks and recreational facilities — See Ch. 310.
Peddling and soliciting — See Ch. 318.
Solid waste — See Ch. 350.
Streets and sidewalks — See Ch. 355.
Admission of children to theaters — See Ch. 366.
A person who shall within the City of Kingston, by any offensive or
disorderly act or language, annoy or interfere with any person or persons
in any place or with the passengers of any public conveyance; or who shall
disturb or offend the occupants of conveyance by any disorderly act, language
or display, although such act, conduct or display may not amount to assault
and battery; or any person who within said city willfully and wrongfully commits
any act which seriously injures the persons or property of another or which
seriously disturbs or endangers the public peace or health or which openly
outrages public decency; and any idle person within said city who, not having
visible means to maintain himself, lives without employment; or any person
who within said city wanders about and begs, or goes from door to door or
places himself in the streets, highways, passages or public places, without
the written permission of the Mayor of the city, to beg and receive alms;
or any person who within said city has no visible occupation, profession or
business to maintain himself by, but who, for the most part, supports himself
by gambling or crime or by the avails of prostitution, or any person who within
said city is a common prostitute; or any person who engages in quarreling
within said city in any public park, street, lane or alley or in any public
place or in any place within public view or hearing; or any person who shall
within said city make indecent gestures or exhibitions of himself or herself
in public view; or who shall in any public place or in any place within public
view or hearing within said city publicly use indecent, foul or profane words
or opprobrious or provoking language or outcries tending to a breach of the
peace; or utter threats of unlawful violence or shall make any unusual noise
or disturbance of the public peace or quiet; or shall knowingly give a false
alarm of fire; or who shall within said city, alone or with other, not using
the public ways of said city to pass and repass, lounge or loiter about, stand
upon or occupy the sidewalks of any public place in front of or along any
premises or buildings, public or private, not owned or occupied by such person;
or who shall be, without any right, in or about the approaches, passages,
entrance hall or stairway of any building used for public assemblages or public
resort within said city, to the annoyance or impediment of persons lawfully
passing or repassing, or of the property owners, and shall refuse, after directions
by any officer or citizen, to pass along or disperse from said place or places;
or who shall disturb or interrupt any public meeting, school, theater, concert,
exhibition or assemblage within said city, without lawful authority; or who
shall be found in the nighttime lurking suspiciously about any place within
said city and shall refuse, upon demand of any policeman or watchman, to give
an account of himself or herself; or who shall carry in any public place within
said city any loaded firearm; or any person who within said city shall maliciously
and unlawfully open any structure, garage or enclosure and take away therefrom,
or from any other place within said city, any animal, property or vehicle
of another, under circumstances not amounting to larceny or a felony; or who
shall be found engaged, in any public place aforesaid within said city, in
throwing stones or other missiles and thereby endangering persons or property;
or who shall maliciously injure any street or public electric lamp, lamppost,
post, pole, wire, gas pipe main or fire alarm apparatus or any city water
pipe main, hydrant, hose or any works or apparatus in any street or public
place within said city for the transmission of heat, light, water power or
telegraph or telephone messages, or any street signs or traffic regulator
put up by the authority of the Common Council of said city; or who shall be
found naked or with persons improperly exposed, bathing in any of the canals,
basins, streams, races, ponds, creeks or water within said city in any public
place, is guilty of the crime of disorderly conduct, which is hereby declared
to be an offense within said City of Kingston, and shall be punishable by
a fine of no more than $50, or by imprisonment of not more than six months,
or by both such fine and imprisonment.
This chapter shall take effect immediately.
