[R.O. 2009 § 225.660; Ord. No. 3321, 12-13-2016]
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.
[R.O. 2009 § 225.670; Ord. No. 3321, 12-13-2016]
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.
[R.O. 2009 § 225.680; Ord. No. 3321, 12-13-2016]
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.
[R.O. 2009 § 225.690; Ord. No. 3321, 12-13-2016]
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.
[R.O. 2009 § 225.700; Ord. No. 3321, 12-13-2016]
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.
[R.O. 2009 § 225.710; Ord. No. 3321, 12-13-2016]
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.
[R.O. 2009 § 225.72; Ord. No. 2797 § I, 4-10-2008; Ord. No. 3321, 12-13-2016]
A. 
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following terms shall mean:
INCITE A RIOT
Shall mean, but is not limited to, urging or instigating other persons to riot, but shall not be deemed to mean the mere oral or written:
1. 
Advocacy of ideas; or
2. 
Expression of belief, not involving advocacy of any acts or acts of violence or asserting rightness of, or the right to commit any such act or acts.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place which the general public has access and a right to resort for entertainment or other lawful purpose, but does not necessarily mean a place devoted solely to 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.
RIOT
A public disturbance involving:
1. 
An act or acts of violence by one (1) or more persons part of an assemblage of seven (7) or more persons, which act or acts constitute a clear and present danger of or shall result in damages or injury to the property of any other person or the person of any other individual; or
2. 
A threat or threats of the commission of an act or acts of violence by one (1) or more persons part of an assemblage of seven (7) or more persons having, individually or collectively, threatening of immediate execution of such threat or threats, where the performance of the threatening acts of violence would constitute a clear and present danger of, or would result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual.
B. 
A person commits the offense of disorderly conduct if, in a public place, his or her conduct causes or is likely to cause disorder, nuisance, alarm or public danger and he/she does any of the following:
1. 
Commits an act in a violent and tumultuous manner, whereby another person is placed in danger of injury to life, limb or health; or whereby the property of another is placed in danger of being damaged or destroyed;
2. 
Causes, provokes or engages in any fight or brawl;
3. 
Obstructs the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic and refuses to clear such public way when ordered to do so by a Law Enforcement Officer;
4. 
Under the influence of an intoxicating liquor or drug, upon the real property of any place of business without the consent of the owner or caretaker;
5. 
In an intoxicated or drugged condition in such a manner so as not to be able to care for his/her own safety or the safety of others;
6. 
Enters into any school, church, courthouse or municipal government building, while under the influence of an intoxicating liquor;
7. 
Incites, or attempts to incite, or is involved in attempting to incite a riot;
8. 
Threatens to commit an offense against any member of the Police Department, Municipal Court, or any other authorized official of the City who is engaged in the performance of their official duty; or
9. 
Knowingly refuses to obey a lawful order to disperse by a Law Enforcement Officer when such order is in the interest of restoring public peace and order or the vacation of a bona fide emergency or when public health and safety is imminently threatened.
C. 
This Section shall not be construed to suppress the right to lawful assembly, public speaking or other lawful means of expressing public opinion not in contravention of the law or the Constitution.
[R.O. 2009 § 225.730; Ord. No. 3321, 12-13-2016]
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.
[R.O. 2009 § 225.740; Ord. No. 3321, 12-13-2016]
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:
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.
OTHER PROTEST ACTIVITIES
Any action that is disruptive or undertaken to disrupt or disturb a funeral or burial service.
C. 
The offense of unlawful funeral protest shall be an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 2009 § 225.750; R.O. 2007 § 225.650; Ord. No. 1512, 12-14-1995; Ord. No. 3321, 12-13-2016]
A. 
No person shall unreasonably make, continue or cause to be made any noise disturbance. Non-commercial public speaking and public assembly activities conducted on any public space or public right-of-way shall be exempt from the operation of this Section. The following acts, and the causing thereof, are declared to be in violation of this Chapter.
1. 
Operating, playing or permitting the operation or playing of any radio, television, phonograph, drum, musical instrument, sound amplifier or similar device which produces, reproduces or amplifies sound in such a manner as to create a noise disturbance at fifty (50) feet from such device, when operated in or on a public right-of-way or public space.
B. 
"Noise Disturbance" means any sound which annoys or disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities.