§ 30-21. Prohibition; definition; enumeration.  


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  • No person shall be disorderly in the city. For the purposes of this article, a disorderly person shall be any person who shall do any act or engage in any practice hereinafter enumerated and any person who shall aid and abet another to do any such act or engage in such practice:

    (1)

    Be under the influence of alcoholic liquor or any narcotic drug, or drink any alcoholic liquor, in any public street, park, or place;

    (2)

    Engage in any indecent, insulting, immoral, or obscene conduct in any public place;

    (3)

    Discharge any firearms, air rifle, or other dangerous weapon, within or into the city, or have any such dangerous weapon in his possession in any public street, park, or place except the same be licensed as required by law or securely wrapped or encased;

    (4)

    Engage in any window peeping;

    (5)

    Beg in any public place;

    (5)

    Swim or bathe in the nude in any public place;

    (7)

    Utter any vile, blasphemous, vulgar, or obscene language in any public place or in such a way as to subject the public or any woman or child to such language;

    (8)

    Tell or pretend to tell fortunes for hire, gain, reward, or profit whether by means of cards, tokens, trances, inspection of the hands or skull, mind reading, consulting the movement of the heavenly bodies, or otherwise; or for hire, gain, reward or profit, pretend to enable another to recover lost or stolen property, pretend to give success in any business, enterprise, speculation, or game of chance, or induce any person to dispose of property in favor of another;

    (9)

    Make any immoral exhibition or indecent exposure of his or her person;

    (10)

    Publish, sell, offer for sale, give away, exhibit, or possess for such purpose any obscene, indecent, or immoral book, pamphlet, paper, picture, statuary, image, or representation;

    (11)

    Wilfully destroy or damage or in any manner deface, destroy, injure, or tamper with any property not his own, or mark or post hand bills on, or in any manner mar the walls of any public building, or any fence, tree, or pole within the city, or take, or meddle with any property belonging to the city or remove the same from the building or place where it may be kept, placed, standing, or stored, without authority from the custodian of said property;

    (12)

    Accost, molest, or otherwise annoy, either by word of mouth, whistle, or by sign or motion, any person in any public place;

    (13)

    Spit on any street or sidewalk, or in any public carrier, public building, or place of public assemblage, except in receptacles placed there for such purposes;

    (14)

    Engage in any disturbance, fight, or quarrel in any public place;

    (15)

    Collect or stand in crowds or arrange, encourage, or abet the collection of persons in crowds for illegal or mischievious purposes in any public place;

    (16)

    Jostle or roughly crowd persons in any street, alley, park, or public building;

    (17)

    Conduct himself in any public place so as to obstruct the free and uninterrupted passage of the public;

    (18)

    Attend, frequent, operate or be an occupant or inmate of any place where prostitution, gambling, the illegal sale of intoxicating liquor, or any other illegal or immoral business or occupation is permitted or conducted;

    (19)

    Engage in prostitution or solicit or accost any person for the purpose of inducing the commission of any illegal or immoral act;

    (20)

    Knowingly transport any person to a place for the purpose of enabling such person to engage in gambling or in any illegal or immoral act;

    (21)

    Keep or maintain, or permit the use of, a gambling room, table, or equipment, or any policy or pool tickets, to be used for gambling on any premises occupied or controlled by him; conduct or attend any cock fight or dog fight; or place, receive, or transmit any bet on the outcome of any race, contest, or game of any kind whatsoever;

    (22)

    Permit or suffer any place occupied or controlled by him to be a resort of noisy, boisterous, or disorderly persons;

    (23)

    Disturb the public peace and quiet by loud, boisterous, or vulgar conduct;

    (24)

    Obstruct, resist, hinder, or oppose any member of the police force, or any peace officer in the discharge of his duties as such;

    (25)

    Wander about the streets, either by day or night, without any visable lawful means of support or without being able to give a satisfactory account of himself;

    (26)

    Enter any garden or orchard located within the city without the consent of the owner or tenant, or his agent, and there cut down, damage, destroy, eat, or carry away any portion of said garden, including any growing thing, crop, tree, timber, grass, seed, soil, fertilizer, water supply, tool, implement fence, or any other protective device or any other thing used for the development, cultivation maintenance, and use of the aforesaid gardens or orchards;

    (27)

    Disturb any service of worship or any other assembly gathered for lawful purpose;

    (28)

    Turn in any false alarm of fire;

    (29)

    Knowingly sell, give, or furnish liquor or beer to any drunken person, intoxicated, or disorderly person, or to any habitual drunkard;

    (30)

    Register at any hotel, roominghouse, trailer camp, tourist home, motel, or other public place offering overnight accommodations to the public under an assumed name, or as the wife or husband of any person to whom he is not legally married.

(Ord. No. 21, § 1, 10-5-59)