Sec. 50-4. - Tumultuous or disorderly conduct.
Part of the Code of Ordinances of Tiverton, RI.
The text
(a)
No person, acting alone or in concert with others, may engage in conduct which violates any of the following subsections:
(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.
(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.
(3)
Any person who shall in a public place use fighting words or language or words which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite outrage and immediate turmoil.
(4)
Any person who shall use violent and forceful behavior at any time in or near a public place, such that there is a clear and present danger that free movement of other persons will be incapacitated in the lawful exercise of business or amusement.
(5)
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.
(6)
Any person who shall assemble or congregate with another or others for the purpose of causing, provoking or engaging in any fight or brawl.
(7)
Any person who shall disturb the peace of others by violent, indecent, offensive or boisterous conduct or language which such conduct or language was calculated to cause anguish or injury to another.
(8)
Any person who shall be found roughly crowding or pushing any person in any public place.
(9)
Any person who shall throw any stone or any other missile upon or at any person, vehicle, building or other public or private property.
(10)
Any person who shall throw any stone, or other missile from any vehicle, either moving, stopped or parked, upon or at any person, building or other public or private property.
(11)
Any person who shall by acts of violence interfere with another's pursuit of a lawful occupation.
(12)
Any person who shall urinate or defecate on any public street, alley, sidewalk or floor of any public building or a building where the public gathers or has access.
(13)
Any person who shall wantonly make a false alarm with reference to the request of firefighting apparatus or cry fire in any public place for the sole purpose of causing turmoil.
(14)
Any person who shall prowl or wander upon the private property of another or peek in the door or window of any inhabited dwelling or home located upon private property without lawful business with the owner or occupant thereof.
(15)
Any person who shall 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 ordered to do so by a peace officer or other person having authority.
(16)
Any person who shall display or drink any alcoholic beverage on any of the public highways, streets, sidewalks, beaches, parks, recreational areas, schools, public buildings or public places of the town unless a liquor license has been granted to the premises by the council.
(17)
Any person who commits any offense enumerated in G.L. § 11-11-(1-7).
(b)
This section shall be enforceable pursuant to the provisions of section 1-7 of the Town Code.
(Code 1967, § 19-9; Ord. of 7-25-11, § 10)