Chapter 9.20
DISORDERLY CONDUCT

Sections:

9.20.010    Designated.

9.20.020    On public premises prohibited.

9.20.030    Refusal to comply with request to leave private property prohibited.

9.20.040    Violation—Penalty.

9.20.010 Designated.

A person commits disorderly conduct if he:

(1) Engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous or threatening behavior.

(2) Makes unreasonable, loud, boisterous, rude, indecent, unseemly or unnecessary noise.

(3) Congregates with another person or persons in a public place and refuses to comply with a lawful order of the police to disperse.

(4) Obstructs vehicular or pedestrian traffic on a public way.

(5) Disturbs any lawful assembly of persons without lawful authority.

(6) Initiates or circulates a report, knowing it to be false concerning an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime, catastrophe or other emergency.

(7) Creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by an act which is not licensed or privileged to do.

(8) Masturbates, urinates, defecates or performs an act of copulation in a public place.

(9) Willfully exposes his or her genital organs in any public place.

Statutory Reference: ORS 166.025

History: Ord. 1030 §2, 1984; Ord. 1042 §1, 1985.

9.20.020 On public premises prohibited.

No person on the premises of a drive-in restaurant, drive-in bank, drive-in theater, drive-in business, public parking facility or other public or private property where parking or drive-in facilities are offered and extended to the public for public use shall needlessly do any of the following: race the motor of any motor vehicle, or bring to a sudden start or stop any motor vehicle, or impede the orderly movement of vehicles or pedestrian traffic on such premises, or blow any horn, or make or cause to be made any loud, boisterous, rude, indecent, unseemly or unnecessary noise, or speak any rude, indecent, vulgar or profane words toward any other person, or deface or damage the property of another, and any of such acts is deemed and declared to be disorderly conduct, and any person who commits any other act constituting a nuisance or disturbance on the premises whereby the quiet and good order of the premises or the neighborhood is disturbed shall be guilty of disorderly conduct.

Statutory Reference: ORS 166.025

History: Ord. 1030 §2, 1984.

9.20.030 Refusal to comply with request to leave private property prohibited.

When the owner, lessee or other person in lawful charge of real property, or a Police Officer acting on the request of the owner, lessee or other person in lawful charge of real property, requests any person other than the owner, lessee or person in lawful possession of real property to leave such premises and the person requested to leave, without good cause or reason refuses immediately to comply with such request, the person so refusing to comply with such request shall be deemed guilty of disorderly conduct.

Statutory Reference: ORS 166.025

History: Ord. 1030 §2, 1984.

9.20.040 Violation—Penalty.

Any violation of this chapter is a class “B” misdemeanor.

Statutory Reference: ORS 166.025

History: Ord. 1030 §2, 1984; Ord. 1033 §2, 1984.