As used in this Article, the following terms mean:
Any place which at the time of the offense is not open to
the public. It includes property which is owned publicly or privately.
Any property in which the person does not have a possessory
interest.
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.
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.
PUBLIC PLACE
Definition. The following term shall be defined as follows:
Any place, including inside a building, 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 knowingly and actually:
1.
Obstruct any public street, public highway, public sidewalk
or any other public place or building by hindering or impeding 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.
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.
FUNERAL and BURIAL SERVICE
OTHER PROTEST ACTIVITIES
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following terms mean:
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 300-foot zone that is established under Subsection (A) above.
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. 1994 § 205.050; Ord. No.
52 § 3(4), 4-3-1968]
A.
No person in the City shall have the status or condition of a "vagrant."
The following persons shall be deemed vagrants:
1.
No Lawful Means Of Support. Any person having no lawful means
of employment and having no lawful means of support realized solely
from lawful occupations or sources; or, any person who lives idly
and without visible means of support.
2.
Loitering. Any person found loitering or strolling in, about,
or upon any street, alley or other public way or public place, or
at any public gathering or assembly, or in or around any store, shop,
or business or commercial establishment, or any private property or
place without lawful business and conducting himself/herself in a
lewd, wanton, or lascivious manner in speech or behavior.
3.
Burglars Tools. Any person upon whose person or in whose possession
shall be found any instrument, tool, or other implement for picking
locks or pockets, or any implement that is usually employed or that
reasonably may be inferred to have been designed to be employed in
the commission of any felony, misdemeanor other violation of any ordinance,
and who shall fail to account satisfactorily for the possession for
the same.
4.
Unlawful Occupancy. Any person wandering abroad and occupying,
lodging or sleeping in any vacant or unoccupied barn, garage, shed
shop, or other building or structure, or in any automobile, truck,
railroad car, or other vehicle, without owning the same or without
permission of the same, or sleeping in any vacant lot during the hours
of darkness and not giving a satisfactory account of himself/herself.
5.
Begging. Any person wandering abroad and begging; or any person
who goes about from door to door of private homes or commercial and
business establishments, or places himself/herself in or upon any
public way or public place to beg or receive alms for himself/herself.
6.
Abroad At Unusual Hours. Any person who wanders about the street,
alleys or other public ways or places, or who is found abroad at late
or unusual hours in the night without any visible or lawful business
and not giving a satisfactory account of himself/herself.
7.
Illegal Association. Any person who keeps, operates, frequents,
lives in, or is employed in any house or other establishment of ill
fame, or who (whether married or single) engages in or commits acts
of fornication or perversion for hire.
8.
Illegal Employment. Any person who frequents or loafs, loiters,
or idles, in or around or is the occupant of or is employed in any
gambling establishment where intoxicating liquor is sold without a
license.
9.
Fraudulent Schemes. Any person who shall engage in any fraudulent
scheme, device, or trick to obtain money or other valuable thing from
others; or any person who aids or assists such trick, device, or scheme.
10.
Concealing Stolen Property. Any person who keeps a place where
lost or stolen property is concealed.
11.
All persons who by the common law are vagrants, whether in any
of the foregoing classifications or note.
[R.O. 1994 § 205.060; Ord. No.
53 §§ 1 – 3, 5-28-1968]
A.
PERSONS
SOUND AMPLIFYING EQUIPMENT
SOUND TRUCK
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following terms shall have
these prescribed meanings:
Includes the singular and the plural and shall also mean
and include any person, firm, corporation, association, club, partnership,
society or any other form of association or organization.
Any machine or device for the amplification of the human
voice, music or any other sound. "Sound amplifying equipment" as used
herein shall not be construed as including standard automobile radios
when used and heard only by occupants of the vehicle in which installed
or warning devices on authorized emergency vehicles or horns or other
warning devices on other vehicles used only for traffic safety purposes.
Any motor vehicle, or animal-drawn vehicle, or any vehicle
regardless of its means of propulsion, having mounted thereon, or
attached thereto, any sound amplifying equipment.
B.
Commercial Advertising By Sound Truck Prohibited. No person shall
operate, or cause to be operated, any sound truck for commercial sound
advertising purposes in the City of Lake Ozark with sound amplifying
equipment in operation.
C.
Penalties. Any person who violates any provision of this Section
shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00).
[R.O. 1994 § 205.105; Ord. No.
2013-03, 2-12-2013]
A.
A person commits the offense of disorderly conduct if he/she knowingly
or recklessly:
1.
Uses abusive, offensive, indecent, profane or vulgar language
in a public place, and the language by its very utterance tends to
disturb the peace of another person, invoke or incite violence by
another person, or cause alarm or annoyance to another person;
2.
Makes an offensive gesture or display in a public place, and
the gesture or display tends to disturb the peace of another person,
invoke or incite violence by another person, or cause alarm or annoyance
to another person;
3.
Insults, taunts, challenges or threatens another person in a
public place under circumstances in which such conduct tends to disturb
the peace of another person, invoke or incite violence by another
person, or cause alarm or annoyance to another person;
4.
Engages in fighting, brawling or other violent, tumultuous or
threatening behavior with another person in a public place;
5.
Obstructs or hinders the movement of persons or vehicles on
any public street, road, highway, right-of-way, sidewalk or other
public way so as to interfere with the rights of others by an act
that serves no lawful or reasonable purpose;
6.
Creates a condition which presents a risk of physical harm or
injury to another person or to another person's property;
7.
Displays a firearm or other dangerous weapon in a public place
in a manner that tends to cause alarm to another person; or
8.
Without any lawful authority, disturbs any lawful assembly or
meeting of persons.
B.
For purposes of this section, the phrase "public place" shall include
a public parking area on privately owned property, a common area of
an apartment building or dormitory, or a common area on a privately
owned commercial shopping center, mall, or other commercial establishment.
