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. 1993 § 220.220; R.O. 1932 § 570;
CC 1969 § 18-4]
It shall be unlawful for any person to solicit, ask for or beg
money, clothing or alms of any kind or character upon the streets
or other public places in the City without first securing and having
in his possession a written permit from the City License Officer so
to do.
[R.O. 1993 § 220.260; Ord. No.
1859 §§ 1, 2, 11-15-1955; CC 1969 § 18-23; Ord. No. 2519 § 1, 6-8-1992]
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person within the City to cause or allow
any unreasonably loud, disturbing or unnecessary noise within the
City and any such noise is hereby prohibited.
B.
The following noises shall be deemed to constitute loud, disturbing
and unnecessary but shall not be deemed to be exclusive:
The playing or allowing the playing of radios, or loudspeakers,
in such a manner or with such volume, particularly during the hours
between 10:00 P.M. and 9:00 A.M. as to tend to annoy or disturb the
quiet, comfort or repose of persons in any dwelling or residence,
provided that any such noise that can be distinctly heard at a distance
of more than thirty-five (35) feet from its source shall be deemed
excessive.
C.
The term "loudspeaker" within the meaning of this Section is defined
to be any device or instrument which produces, reproduces or amplifies
any sound, including music, voices or any other sound or noise whatsoever.
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State Law Reference: As to authority of city to enact ordinance
to restrain noise, see RSMo. § 77.570.
[R.O. 1993 § 220.290; R.O. 1932 § 508;
CC 1969 § 18-47]
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to be a vagrant within the City.
B.
A "vagrant," within the meaning of this Section, shall be deemed
to be any person who loiters around houses of ill fame, gambling houses
or places where liquors are drunk, kept or sold, and without any visible
means of support, or who shall attend or operate any gambling device
or apparatus, or be engaged in the practice of any trick or device
to procure money or other thing of value, or shall be engaged in the
pursuit of any unlawful calling whatever, and every able-bodied married
man that shall neglect or refuse to provide for the support of his
family, and every person tramping or wandering around from place to
place without visible means of support.
