HomeMy WebLinkAbout1971-023 - Repeal Section 22.9 of the Municipal CodeBILL N0.~,3
ORDINANCE NO.~~ 3
AN ORDINANCE REPEALING 22.9 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE
AND ENACTING A NEW ORDINANCE IN LIEU THEREOF DEFINING DISORDERLY --
CONDUCT AND FIXING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF SAID ORDINANCE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF
RIVERSIDE, MISSOURI AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 22.9 of the Code of the City of
Riverside is hereby repealed and a new ordinance enacted which
shall read as follows:
22.9 HISORDERLY CONDUCT - PENALTY FOR VIOLATION
Section 1. Any person who, with intent to provoke a
breach of the peace or whereby a breach of the peace may be
occasioned, commits any of the following acts shall be deemed to
have committed the offense of disorderly conduct:
(a) Uses offensive, disorderly, threatening, abusive
or insulting language, conduct or behavior.
(b) Acts in such a manner as to annoy, disturb, interfere
with, obstruct or be offensive to others or to any
lawful assemblage.
(c) Congregates with others on a public street and
refuses to move on when ordered by the police.
(d) By his actions causes a crowd to collect, except
when lawfully addressing such crowd.
(e) Shouts or makes a noise either outside or inside a
building during the nighttime to the annoyance or disturb-
ance of any considerable number of persons.
(f) Interferes with any person in any place by jostling
against such person or unnecessarily crowding him or by
placing a hand in the proximity of such person's pocket,
pocketbook or handbag.
(g) Stands on sidewalks or street corners and makes
insulting remarks to or about passing pedestrians or
annoys such pedestrians.
(h) Is engaged in some illegal occupation or who bears
an evil reputation and with an unlawful purpose consorts
with thieves and criminals or frequents unlawful resorts.
(i) In any prosecution under paragraph (11) of this
section, the fact that the defendant is engaged in an
illegal occupation or bears an evil reputation, and ~a
found consorting with persons of like evil reputation,
thieves or criminals shall be prima facie evidence that
such consorting was for an unlawful purpose.
(j) Wanders, prowls or loiters upon the private property
of another, in the nighttime and peeks or peers in the
door or window of any building or structure located
thereon which is inhabited by human beings, without
any visible or lawful business with the owners or occupants
thereof.
(k) Knowing the same to be false, circulates or transmits
to another or others, with intent that it be acted upon,
-- any statement or rumor, written, printed or by word
of mouth, concerning the location of a bonb or other
explosive. This paragraph shall not apply to authorized
statements made in connection with any authorized civil
alefense test or drill.
Section 2. Violation of the terms of this ordinance shall
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be punishable by fine not to exceed One Hundred ($100.00) ~'
Dollars or imprisonment in the city jail not exceeding three (3)
months or in the county jail if there be no city jail, or both
such fine and imprisonment and costs.
PASSED THIS 2nd DAY OF November 19710
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MAYO
ATTEST:
APPROVED THIS 2nd DAY OF November 1971.
MAYO