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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 16, Page 389, No Ordinance Number389/ AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING DISORDERLY CONDUCT WITHIN THE CITY OF PADUCAH, AND PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person within the corporate limits of the City of Paducah to violate any of the following subsections of this Ordinance: (1) Any person who shall act in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another whereby any person is placed in fear of safety of his life, limb or health; or (2) Any person who shall act in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another whereby the property of any person is placed in danger of being destroyed or damaged; or (3) Any person who shall endanger the lawful pursuits of another by acts or violence, angry threats and abusive conduct; or (4) Any person who shall cause, provoke or engage in any fight, brawl or riotous conduct so as to endanger the life, limb, health or property of another; or (5) Any person who shall assembly or congregate with another or others for the purpose of causing, provoking or engaging in any fight or brawl, or mob actions; or (6) Any person who shall be found jostling or roughly crowding or pushing any person in any pujlic place; or (7) Any person who shall use "fighting words" directed toward any person who as a result becomes outraged and thus creates a turmoil; or (8) Any person who shall throw any stone, snowball, or any other missile upon or at any vehicle, building, tree or other public or private property, or upon or at any person in any public or private way or place or enclosed or unenclosed ground; or (9) Any person who shall throw any stone, snowball, or any other missile from any vehicle, either moving, stopped or parked, upon or at any building, tree, sign, or other public or private property, or upon or at any person in any public or private way or place or enclosed or unenclosed ground; or 390 (10) Any person who shall by acts of violence interfere with another's pursuit of a lawful occupation; or (11) Any person who shall assemble or congregate with another or others for the purpose or with the intent to engage in gaming; or (12) Any person who shall frequent any public place with intent to obtain money from other persons by any illegal and/or fraudulent scheme, trick, artifice or device, or (13) Any person who assembles with another for the purpose of engaging in any fraudulent scheme, trick, artifice or device to obtain any valuable thing in any place or from any person, or who shall aid or abet another therein; or (14) Any person who shall accost or attempt to force his company upon any female or attempts to pick up any female; or (15) Any person who shall make an appointment, solicit, offer or agree to commit a lewd act or an act of prostitution or moral perversion or any person who shall aid, abet, allow, permit or participate in the commission of such act or acts; or (16) Any person who shall be found in any house or other establishment of prostitution, or any place where gaming is being engaged in or the illegal sale or possession of alcoholic beverages or narcotics or dangerous drugs is practiced, allowed or tolerated; or (17) Any person found in a public place under the influence of intoxicating liquor in such condition as to be unable to exercise care for his own safety or the safety of others; or (18) Any person who shall unlawfully congregate with another or others in or on any public way so as to halt the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic and refuses to clear such public way when told to do so by a member of the Paducah Police Department or other lawful authority; or (19) Any person who shall refuse or fail to comply with any lawful order, signal, or direction of a police officer in the control of vehicular traffic; or (20) Any person who shall physically hamper, obstruct, impede or interfere with any police officer or any member of the police department while in the discharge or apparent discharge of his lawful duties; or 391 (21) Any person who shall obstruct any fireman or any member of the fire department while in the discharge or apparent discharge of his duty or in any way hamper, impede, or interfere with him in the discharge of his duty; or (22) Any person who by noisy or disorderly conduct disturbs or interferes with the quiet or good order of any place of assembly, public or private, including, but not by way of limitation, schools, churches, libraries and reading rooms; or (23) Any person who utters in a loud or boisterous manner any offensive, profane or indecent words or epithets in any public street or other public place, public conveyance, or place to which the public is invited, which offensive, profane or indecent words or epithets shall include, but are not limited to: (a) Use of the Lord's name in vain; (b) Use of common words denoting or relating to the questionable parentage of another; (c) Use of any derogatory words relating to the privates of a male, female or hermaphrodite; (d) Use any derogatory words relating to the reproductive method of males and females whether or not used in connection with profane language; (e) Use any derogatory words relating to the method of sexual intercourse with relatives or strangers; or (24) Any person who shall enter upon the land or premises of any other person, whether such person be the owner or lessee of said land or premises, and wilfully act in a disorderly manner by making loud and unseemly noises, or by profane cursing or swearing or using obscene language as defined in Subsection (23) herein, or acting in any other disorderly manner while thereon; or (25) Any person who shall expectorate upon any sidewalk, street, or floor in public buildings or upon any other public place within the City; or (26) Any person who shall hereafter be found lurking, lying in wait or concealed in any house or other building, or in any yard, premises or street, with the intent to do any mischief, 392 or to pilfer, or to commit any crime or misdemeanor whatever; or (27) Any person who at nighttime loiters or prowles around a dwelling house or any other place used wholly or in part for living or dwelling purposes, belonging to or occupied by another; or (28) Any person occupying, lodging, or sleeping in any vacant or unoccupied barn, garage, shed, shop or other build- ing or structure, or in any automobile, truck, railroad car, or other vehicle, without owning the same or without permission of the owner or person entitled to possession of same, or sleeping in any vacant lot during the hours of darkness; or (29) Hny person wandering abroad and begging, or any person who goes about from door to door of private homes or commercial and business establishments, or places himself in or upon any public way or public place, to beg or receive alms for himself; or (30) Any person over fourteen (14) years of age who shall assume a mask, false face, cover or partial cover, or other apparel with intent to conceal his identity or counterfeit another, or with the intent to prevent disclosure or recogni- tion, in any public street or other public place; or (31) Any person over fourteen (14) years of age who shall appear in public in the dress, guise, or apparel of a member of the opposite sex with intent to counterfeit the opposite sex; or (32) Any person who shall collect in bodies or in crowds for unlawful purposes as defined by the current ordinances of the City of Paducah. SECTION 2. Any person who shall violate any subsection of this Ordinance may be charged with the offense of "disorderly conduct", and on conviction thereof, may be found guilty of disorderly conduct. SECTION 3. Any person violating any subsection of this Ordinance shall be fined not less than Ten Dollars ($10.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or imprisonment not exceeding fifty (50) days, or both. ff r 7 LA 393 SECTION 4. The provisions of this Ordinance are declared to be severable and if any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance shall for any reason be held to be invalid or un- constitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining sections, subsections, sentences, clauses and phrases of this Ordinance, but they shall remain in effect, it being the legislative intent that this Ordinance shall stand notwithstanding the invalidity SECTION 5. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 6. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption. Mayor Passed by the Board of Commissioners December 12, 1967 Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, December 12, 1967.