For the purposes of Sections
210.660 and
210.670, the following words shall have the meanings set out herein:
PRIVATE PROPERTY
Any place which at the time is not open to the public. It
includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place which at the time is open to the public. It includes
property which is owned publicly or privately.
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.
[Ord. No. 1333 §1,
2008]
A. For
the purpose of this Section, the following word shall have the meaning
set out herein:
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place to which the general public has access and right
to 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; the streets and
sidewalks of the City; and public grounds, areas and parks.
B. It
shall be unlawful at any time to create, permit, or cause, or permit
to be caused or created, any loud music, noise or other sound by means
of phonographic, radio or other broadcasting or electronic apparatus
or device, or by accelerating rapidly the motor of any vehicle, or
by honking of a horn, or by spinning tires of a vehicle, or by the
emission of loud exhaust noises from a vehicle, in, upon or while
loitering, idling, wandering, strolling in, upon or around any premises
used or occupied as a public place.
C. It
shall be unlawful at any time to fight while in a public place.
D. It
shall be unlawful at any time to create, permit, or cause or permit
to be caused or created any loud music, noise or other sound on private
property which can be heard on any public property or on any private
property owned by another person.
[Ord. No. 1476 § 8, 2-9-2017]
It shall be unlawful for any person who owns, maintains, leases
or is otherwise in possession or control of any real property to permit
or allow persons thereon to conduct themselves in a loud or unruly
manner so as to cause hurt, injury, annoyance, inconvenience or danger
to the public or any member thereof, and it shall be the duty of any
such person in possession or control to take such steps as are available
to disperse such loud or unruly persons.
[CC 2001 §210.235; Ord. No. 955 §4, 3-13-1992]
A. The
use of any loud mechanical equipment, or the creation of any unreasonably
loud disturbing noise, or any construction, repair or similar activity
between the hours of 9:00 P.M. and 7:00 A.M. on weekdays or between
the hours of 9:00 P.M. Friday and 8:00 A.M. Saturday or between the
hours of 9:00 P.M. Saturday and 8:00 A.M. Sunday, which annoys or
disturbs the residential quiet, comfort or repose of persons in any
building, is hereby prohibited.
B. It
shall be unlawful and an ordinance violation for any person to commit
an act of peace disturbance by the use of loud mechanical equipment
as above described during the times described and shall be punishable
in accordance with the general sanction provisions contained in the
Code of the City of Edmundson.