CHAPTER 130:  GENERAL PROVISIONS

§ 130.01	DISORDERLY CONDUCT.
	(A)	Definition.  For the purpose of this section, the following definition 
		shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a 
		different meaning.

	PUBLIC PLACE.  Any street, alley, park, public building, any place of business
	or assembly open to or frequented by the public, and any other place which is 
	open to the public view, or to which the public has access.

	(B)	Acts prohibited.  No person shall do any of the following.

		(1)	Commit an assault, or an assault and battery, on any person.

		(2)	Be drunk in any public place or under the influence of any 
			narcotic drug in any public place.

		(3)	Engage in any indecent, insulting, immoral, or obscene conduct 
			in any public place.

		(4)	Discharge any firearm, air rifle, air pistol or bow and arrow 
			in the city, except when lawfully acting in the defense of 
			persons or property or the enforcement of law or at a duly 
			established range, or except on unplatted land within the city.

		(5)	Fire, discharge, display, or possess any fireworks except for 
			the type and under the conditions permitted by Chapter 39 of 
			the Penal Code of the state.

		(6)	Engage in peeping in the windows of an inhabited place.

		(7)	Bathe in any body of water in a naked state in public, or with 
			his or her person so much undressed that there shall be an 
			indecent exposure of the body.

		(8)	Make any immoral exhibition or indecent exposure of his or her 
			person.

		(9)	Sell, Offer for sale, give away, exhibit or publish or have in 
			his or her possession for any such purpose any obscene, lewd, 
			lascivious, indecent or immodest book, pamphlet, paper, 
			picture, cast, statuary, image or representation or other 
			article of an indecent or immoral nature, or any book, paper, 
			print, circular or writing made up principally of pictures or 
			stories of immodest deeds, lust, or crime, or exhibit any such 
			article within the view of any passerby.

		(10) 	Willfully destroy, remove, damage, alter or in any manner 
			deface any property not his or her own, or any public school 
			building, or any public building, bridge, fire hydrant, alarm 
			box, street light, street sign, traffic control device, 
			railroad sign or signal, parking meter, or shade tree belonging 
			to the city or located in the public places of the city, or 
			mark or post hand bills on, or in any manner mar the walls of, 
			any public building, or fence, tree, or pole within the city, 
			or destroy, 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 or stored, without proper authority; or 
			disturb, tamper with, disconnect or damage any city water meter 
			without proper authority.

		(11)	Engage in any disturbance, fight, or quarrel in a public place.

		(12)	Loiter on or play games on any street or sidewalk or in any 
			park or public building or conduct himself in any public place 
			so as to obstruct the free and uninterrupted passage of the 
			public.

		(13)	Engage in any act of prostitution.

		(14)	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.

		(15)	Keep or maintain a gaming room, gaming table, or any gaming 
			device used for gaming; or knowingly suffer a gaming room, 
			gaming table, or any gaming device to be kept, maintained, 
			played or sold on any premises occupied or controlled by him or 
			her.

		(16)	Obstruct, resist, hinder, or oppose any member of the Police 
			Department or any peace officer in the discharge of his or her 
			duties as such.

		(17)	Disturb any school, meeting, or congregation lawfully 
			assembled, whether religious, political, or otherwise.

		(18)	Prowl about any alley or the private premises of any other 
			person in the nighttime, without authority or the permission of 
			the owner of such premises.

		(19)	Wrongfully throw or propel any snowball, missile or object 
			toward any person or automobile.

		(20)	Wrongfully throw or propel any snowball, missile or object from 
			any moving automobile.

		(21)	Summon, as a joke or prank or otherwise without any good reason 
			therefor, by telephone or otherwise, the Police of Fire 
			Department or any public or private ambulance to go to any 
			address where the service called for is not needed.
(Ord. 12, passed 8-17-67)

§ 130.02	CURFEW FOR MINORS.
	(A)	Curfew hours.  It shall be unlawful for any minor under the age of 17 
		years to loiter, wander, stroll, or play in or upon the public streets, 
		highways, roads, alleys, parks, playgrounds, wharves, docks, or other 
		public grounds, public places and public buildings, places of amusement 
		and entertainment, vacant lots or other unsupervised places, between 
		the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. immediately following; provided, 
		however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to a minor 
		accompanied by his or her parent, guardian, or other adult person 
		having the care and custody of the minor, or where the minor is upon an 
		emergency errand or legitimate business directed by his or her parent, 
		guardian, or other adult person having the care and custody of the 
		minor.

	(B)	Parental responsibility.  It shall be unlawful for the parent, 
		guardian, or other adult person having the care and custody of a minor 
		under the age of 17 years to permit or suffer such minor to loiter, 
		idle, wander, stroll, or play in or upon the public streets, highways, 
		roads, alleys, parks, playgrounds, wharves, docks, or other public 
		grounds, public places, and public buildings, places of amusement and 
		entertainment, vacant lots or other unsupervised places between the 
		hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. immediately following; provided, 
		however, that the provisions of this section do not apply when the 
		minor is accompanied by his or her parent, guardian or other adult 
		person having the care and custody of the minor, or where the minor is 
		upon an emergency errand or legitimate business directed by his or her 
		parent, guardian, or other adult person having the care and custody of 
		the minor.

	(C)	Violations.  Any minor violating the provisions of this section shall 
		be dealt with in accordance with Juvenile Court law and procedure. Any 
		parent, guardian, or other adult person having the care and custody of 
		a minor violating this section shall be subject to the penalty 
		specified in § 130.99.
(Ord. 14, passed 8-17-67)

§ 130.99	PENALTY.
	Any person convicted of violations of this chapter shall be punished by a fine 
	of not more than $100 and costs of prosecution or be imprisoned for not more 
	than 90 days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
(Ord. 12, passed 8-17-67; Am. Ord. 14, passed 8-17-67)