[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Rome as
Secs. 9.06 and 9.07 of the prior Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
No person in any public or private place shall engage in violent,
noisy, riotous abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably
loud or otherwise disorderly conduct, which tends to cause or provoke
an immediate disturbance of public order or tends to annoy or disturb
any other person.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
B.
No person shall intentionally cause, provoke or engage in any fight,
brawl, riot or noisy altercation other than a bona fide athletic contest.
No person shall make unnecessary and annoying noises with a
motor vehicle, including motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles, by
squealing tires, excessive acceleration of the engine or by emitting
unnecessary and loud muffler noise.
It shall be unlawful for any person to defecate or urinate outside
of designated sanitary facilities, upon any sidewalk, street, alley,
public parking lot, park, playground, cemetery or other public area
within the Town, or upon any private property in open view of the
public, or in the halls, stairways or elevators of public or commercial
buildings, or to indecently expose his person.
It shall be unlawful for any person to fail to obey the direction
or order of a police officer while such police officer is acting in
an official capacity in carrying out his or her duties.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms, phrases,
words, and their derivations shall have the meaning given herein.
If not defined herein, the word, term or phrase shall have the definition
commonly accepted including a relevant definition contained in the
Wisconsin Statutes. When not inconsistent with the context, the words
used in the present tense include the future, words in the plural
number include the singular number and words in the singular number
include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and
not merely directory:
A public right-of-way, which normally affords a secondary
means of vehicular access to abutting property.
All grounds, structures and watercourses which are or may
be located within any area dedicated to the public use as a park,
parkway, public boat landing, public lake access, recreation facility
or conservancy district in the Town.
Any public or private land area where motor vehicles are
parked or stored temporarily, but not including the wrecking of automobile
or other vehicles or storage for the purpose of repair or wrecking.
Includes a corporation, firm partnership, association, organization
and any other group acting as a unit as well as individuals, including
a personal representative, receiver or other representative appointed
according to law. Whenever the term "person" is used in any section
of this chapter prescribing a penalty or fine, as to partnerships
or associations, the work shall include the partners or members thereof,
and as to corporations, shall include the officers, agents or members
thereof who are responsible for any violation of such section.
Any public highway or alley and shall mean the entire width
between the boundary lines of any public way where any part thereof
is open to the public for purposes of vehicular traffic.
The Town of Rome, Adams County, Wisconsin, or any duly appointed
designate thereof, including, but not limited to, the Town Board and
Town committees.
The present governing body of the Town or any successors
to the legislative power of said body, or any duly appointed designate
thereof.
A motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer or mobile home, whether
or not such vehicle is registered under Wisconsin Law.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions,
Art. II)]
The penalty for violation of this chapter shall be as provided
in § 947.01, Wis. Stats.
