§ 210.125. Disorderly Conduct.

A. 

A person shall be guilty of disorderly conduct if, with the purpose of causing public danger, alarm, disorder, nuisance or if his conduct is likely to cause public danger, alarm, disorder or nuisance, he willfully does any of the following acts in a public place:

1. 

Commits an act in a violent and tumultuous manner toward another whereby that other is placed in danger of his life, limb or health;

2. 

Commits an act in a violent and tumultuous manner toward another whereby the property of any person is placed in danger of being destroyed or damaged;

3. 

Causes, provokes or engages in any fight, brawl or riotous conduct so as to endanger the life, limb, health or property of another;

4. 

Interferes with another's pursuit of a lawful occupation by acts of violence;

5. 

Obstructs, either singly or together with other persons, the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic and refuses to clear such public way when ordered to do so by the City Police or other lawful authority known to be such;

6. 

Is in a public place under the influence of an intoxicating liquor or drug in such condition as to be unable to exercise care for his own safety or the safety of others;

7. 

Resists or obstructs the performance of duties by City Police or any other authorized official of the City, when known to be such an official;

8. 

Incites, attempts to incite or is involved in attempting to incite a riot;

9. 

Addresses abusive language or threats to any member of the City Police Department, any other authorized official of the City who is engaged in the lawful performance of his duties or any other person when such words have a direct tendency to cause acts of violence. Words merely causing displeasure, annoyance or resentment are not prohibited;

10. 

Damages, befouls or disturbs public property or the property of another so as to create a hazardous, unhealthy or physically offensive condition;

11. 

Makes or causes to be made any loud, boisterous and unreasonable noise or disturbance to the annoyance of any other persons nearby or near to any public highway, road, street, lane, alley, park, square or common, whereby the public peace is broken or disturbed or the traveling public annoyed;

12. 

Fails to obey a lawful order to disperse by a Police Officer, when known to be such an official, where one (1) or more persons are committing acts of disorderly conduct in the immediate vicinity and the public health and safety is imminently threatened;

13. 

Uses abusive or obscene language or makes an obscene gesture;

14. 

Enters into any schoolhouse or church house in which there is an assemblage of people, met for a lawful purpose of the City Hall, in a drunken or intoxicated and disorderly condition or to drink or offer to drink any intoxicating liquors in the presence of such assemblage of people or in the City Hall within this City;

15. 

No person shall knowingly damage the property of another;

16. 

No person shall discharge a paint gun, throw any stone, brickbat, ball or missile or use a slingshot or other device to cause an object to be thrown, shot or slung toward another person(s) or property within the City without the prior consent of said person; nor should any person use any of the above devices to cause any object to be thrown toward or propelled toward a moving vehicle within the City limits of the City of Lake Tapawingo, Missouri;

17. 

No person shall lay or cause to be laid or deposited upon any roadway any object which may damage a motor vehicle, in any way impair the driver's vision or startle the vehicle's operator.

B. 

Exemptions. This Section shall not be construed to suppress the right to lawful assembly, picketing, public speaking or other lawful means of expressing public opinion not in contravention of other laws.

C. 

Definitions. The following words, when used in this Section, shall have the meanings set out herein:

INCITE A RIOT

Shall mean, but is not limited to, urging or instigating other persons to riot, but shall not be deemed to mean the mere oral or written:

1. 

Advocacy of ideas, or

2. 

Expression of belief, not involving advocacy of any act or acts of violence or assertion of the rightness of, or the right to commit, any such act or acts.

PUBLIC PLACE

Any place to which the general public has access and a right to 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.

RIOT

A public disturbance involving:

1. 

An act or acts of violence by one (1) or more persons part of an assemblage of three (3) or more persons, which act or acts shall constitute a clear and present danger of, or shall result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual, or

2. 

A threat or threats of the commission of an act or acts of violence by one (1) or more persons part of an assemblage of three (3) or more persons having, individually or collectively, the ability of immediate execution of such threat or threats, where the performance of the threatened act or acts of violence would constitute a clear and present danger of, or would result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual.

D. 

Violation. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this Section shall be subject to the general penalty provisions contained in Section 100.040.

Ord. No. 865 §1, 6-21-2007; Ord. No. 899 §1, 8-18-2010