Chapter 8.44
Public Disturbances
Sections:
8.44.060 Skateboards, roller skates and rollerblades.
8.44.010 Riot.
Any person who, acting with three or more other persons, knowingly and unlawfully uses or threatens to use force or in any way participates in the use of such force against any other person or against property shall be guilty of the offense of riot. (Ord. 1204 §5(A), 1984).
8.44.020 Failure to disperse.
Any person who:
(1) Congregates with a group of three or more other persons and their acts or conduct within that group create a substantial risk of causing injury to any person or substantial harm to property; and
(2) Refuses or fails to disperse when ordered to do so by a police officer or other public servant engaged in enforcing or executing the law, shall be guilty of the offense of failure to disperse. (Ord. 1204 §5(B), 1984).
8.44.030 Disorderly conduct.
Any person who:
(1) Uses abusive language and thereby intentionally creates a risk of assault; or
(2) Intentionally disrupts any lawful assembly or meeting of persons without lawful authority; or
(3) Intentionally obstructs vehicular or pedestrian traffic without lawful authority,shall be guilty of the offense of disorderly conduct. (Ord. 1204 §5(C), 1984).
8.44.040 False reporting.
Any person who, with knowledge that the information he or she has reported, conveyed or circulated is false, initiates or circulates a false report or warning of an alleged occurrence or impending occurrence of a fire, explosion, crime, catastrophe or emergency knowing that such false report is likely to cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly or transportation facility or to cause public inconvenience or alarm shall be guilty of the offense of false reporting. (Ord. 1204 §5(D), 1984).
8.44.050 (Repealed).
(Ord. 1445 §7, 2001).
8.44.060 Skateboards, roller skates and rollerblades.
(a) Every person utilizing a skateboard, roller skates, or rollerblades, upon a sidewalk, public path, public property, or way open to the public shall be subject to the provisions of this section.
(b) No person subject to regulation pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall utilize or allow to be utilized any device described or covered by or in subsection (a) of this section nor any derivative of such device in, upon, over, or across any of the areas from which such utilization is forbidden by subsequent resolution of the city council or by the owner thereof, provided that, such prohibition shall become effective only after notification, whether in the form of signs, painting upon surface areas such as sidewalks, or other means of notification reasonably intended to and accomplishing such notification has been placed defining the restricted area, whether such notification is placed by the city or the owner or occupier thereof. This prohibition shall apply at all times (twenty-four hours per day each day of the week) within the defined area unless the notice or signage otherwise provides.
(c) Any person utilizing any device described in subsection (a) of this section or any derivative of such device in, upon, over, or across any sidewalk, public path, public property, or way open to the public within the city shall, in the utilization of such device comply with the following requirements:
(1) Shall carry out the use in a careful and prudent maner;
(2) Shall operate the device at a rate of speed no greater than is reasonable and proper under the conditions at the point of operation or utilization;
(3) In such utilization, take into account the among and character of pedestrian traffic, the grade and width of the surface being traveled upon or across, the condition of such surface, and any obstructions existing thereon;
(4) Comply with all applicable traffic control devices, rules and regulations; and
(5) Yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian upon such surface.
(d) Any person violating the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section shall be deemed to have committed an infraction. Upon a finding of committed, the person shall be subject to the following penalties:
(1) Upon the first finding of committed within a twelve-month period, a monetary penalty of up to twenty-five dollars;
(2) Upon a second or subsequent finding of commission within any twelve-month period, a penalty of up to one hundred dollars;
(3) As to any penalty imposed pursuant to either subsection (d)(1) or (2) of this section, such portion thereof, if any, as may be determined by the court, through the exercise of its discretion, shall be subject to conversion to community service. (Ord. 1378 §§1, 2, 3, 1996).