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DIVISION 1. - GENERALLY#
Secs. 38-21—38-35. - Reserved.#
DIVISION 2. - DISORDERLY CONDUCT#
Footnotes:
--- (2) --- State Law reference— Disorderly conduct, G.L. 1956, §§ 11-11-1 et seq., 11-45-1 et seq.; prevention from carrying on employment, G.L. 1956, § 11-11-4; disturbance of public assembly, G.L. 1956, §§ 11-11-1, 11-11-2; nuisances, G.L. 1956, § 11-30-1 et seq.; disorderly persons, G.L. 1956, § 11-45-1.
Sec. 38-36. - Prohibited acts enumerated.#
No person acting alone or in concert with others shall: (1)
Act in an intimidating, violent or tumultuous manner toward another or others whereby any person is placed in fear of safety for such person's life, limb, health or well-being;
(2)
Act in an intimidating, violent or tumultuous manner toward another whereby the property of any person is placed in danger of being damaged, mutilated, defaced, destroyed, and is in fact, mutilated, damaged, defaced or destroyed;
(3)
In a public place use words that are calculated, designed or likely to disrupt the peace, or language and words which by their very nature and utterance inflict, or are likely to inflict, injury, or which tend to incite outrage, turmoil or disturbance of the public peace;
(4)
Behave in an intimidating, violent or forceful manner at any time, in, upon and in the proximity of a public place in such manner that such conduct constitutes a clear and present danger to the free and lawful movement of any person and to the extent that any person will be, and is likely to be, restrained, enjoined, incapacitated or stopped in their lawful exercise of business, occupation, amusement, recreation and any other lawful pursuit;
(5)
Cause, provoke or engage in any fight, brawl, tumultuous or riotous conduct so as to endanger the life, limb, health or well-being of another;
(6)
Join, assemble and congregate with one or more persons for the causing, provoking or engaging in any fight or brawl;
(7)
Disturb the peace of another or others by violent, indecent, offensive, hostile, boisterous or obscene conduct, language or gestures; which conduct, gestures or language is designed or calculated and likely to cause anguish or injury to another or others;
(8)
Throw any stone, snowball or other missile or object upon or at any person, or vehicle, building, tree, sign or other public or private property;
(9)
Roughly or forcefully crowd, jostle or push any person in any public place;
(10)
Expectorate, urinate or defecate on any public street, alley, sidewalk or floor of any public place or public building, or any place where the public shall have the right to gather and to which it shall have access;
(11)
By acts of violence interfere with another's pursuit of a lawful occupation;
(12)
Wilfully, knowingly, wantonly or recklessly make a false alarm or cry of fire, a false request for assistance of any firefighting apparatus or personnel; likewise, willfully, knowingly, wantonly or recklessly make a false report or request for assistance of any public or private rescue or assistance services; or similarly, make a false cry, alarm or request for police assistance;
(13)
Prowl or wander in or upon the private property of another, or without good reason, or without visible or lawful business with the owner or occupant of such business, peek, peep or peer in any door or window of any building or structure thereon;
(14)
Maliciously or without good cause interrupt, harass or molest the speaker at any lawful assembly, meeting or gathering, or impair the lawful rights of others to participate in such assembly, meeting or gathering when such conduct is calculated or likely to provoke disorderly conduct and procedure of the assembly, meeting or gathering, or cause turmoil or disturbance at the assembly, meeting or gathering;
(15)
Act in a manner designed, likely or tending to cause or provoke a disturbance in any public building or place of business wherein matters affecting the public are being considered or deliberated and which is designed, likely or tending to interfere with the orderly conduct or procedure of such consideration or deliberation;
(16)
Frequent any public place with the intention to obtain money or other thing of value from another or others by illegal or fraudulent scheme, device, artifice or other illegal means;
(17)
Assemble for the purpose of engaging in any fraudulent scheme, device, artifice or trick to obtain any money or other thing of value in any place from any person;
(18)
Display any deadly weapon, or instrument or thing which by its appearance may be considered a deadly weapon, in any public place in a manner calculated and likely to alarm or frighten another or others; or
(19)
Join, collect or assemble in bodies or crowds for unlawful purposes as defined by any ordinance of the town.
(Code 1982, § 14-1; Code 2003, § 38-36)
State Law reference— Prevention from carrying on employment, G.L. 1956, § 11-11-4; false alarms, G.L. 1956, § 11-44-21; disorderly conduct, G.L. 1956, § 11-45-1.
Secs. 38-37—38-50. - Reserved.#
DIVISION 3. - LOITERING#
Sec. 38-51. - Loitering to the annoyance or disturbance of others.#
No person shall stand, sit, lounge or remain upon any sidewalk, street, highway, lane or alley, or in any doorway or entrance to any store, dwelling, church, hall, theater or other place of entertainment or upon or against any fence, stoop, step or platform to any dwelling house, store or other building, to the obstruction, hindrance, disturbance or annoyance of other persons traveling or passing along, upon any street, highway, lane or alley in such town or of persons residing or doing business in the vicinity of such areas, after being ordered or requested by any police officer to refrain from so doing.
(Code 1982, § 14-8; Code 2003, § 38-51)
State Law reference— Disorderly persons, G.L. 1956, § 11-45-1.
Sec. 38-52. - Sleeping in public place.#
It shall be unlawful for any person to sleep after sunset on any highway or other public place.
(Code 1982, § 14-3(a); Code 2003, § 38-52)