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HomeMy WebLinkAbout007 - 01/27/1966 - REGULATING CONDUCT CONSTITUTING AN OFFENSE BY PERSONS IN THE CITY, PREVENTING VICE DISORDER, IMMORAL ORDINANCE NO , 1966 BEING AN ORDINANCE REGULATING CONDUCT CONSTITUTING AN OFFENSE BY PERSONS IN THE CITY, PREVENTING VICE DISORDER, IMMORALITY, PROMOTING PUBLIC PEACE, SAFETY AND HEALTH, PROTECTING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY, PROTECTING PUBLIC MORALS AND PROHIBTING OFFENSES INVOLVING CHILDREN BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS Section 1 Offenses Against Public Peace No person in the City of Fort Collins shall (a) Disturbing the Peace Disturb, tend to disturb, or aid in disturbing the peace of others by violent, tumultuous, offensive, disorderly or obstreperous conduct, and no person shall knowingly permit such conduct upon any premises owned or possessed by him or under his control (b) Vagrancy Have the status or condition of a vagrants Any person able to work and support himself who shall be found loitering or strolling about on the street at a late or unusual hour without lawful business, frequenting public places or begging or leading an idle, unmoral or profligate course of life in the City of Fort Collins or not having any visible means of support, shall be deemed a vagrant (c) Loitering Stop, loaf, or loiter on any highway, street, alley or sidewalk within the City of Fort Collins or in the vicinity of any public place of amusement or of worship in the City of Fort Collins and refuse to disperse or vacate any such place when requested to do so by any Police Officer of the City (d) Loitering and Other Acts About Schools Loiter, idle, wander, stroll or play in, about or on any public, private or parochial school, college or seminary grounds or buildings, either on foot or in or on any vehicles without having some lawful business therein or thereabout or in connection with such school or the employees thereof Nor shall any person annoy, disturb or otherwise prevent the orderly conduct of classes or activities of any1such school or annoy, assault, disturb or molest any student or employee of any such school, college or seminary while in any such school building or on any school grounds or conduct himself in a lewd, wanton, lascivious manner in speech or behavior in or about any such school building or school grounds nor shall any person park or move a vehicle in the vicinity or on the grounds of any such school, college or seminary for the purpose of annoying or molesting the students or employees thereof or in any effort to induce, entice or invite students into such vehicles for immoral purposes (e) Congregating on private property, when Congregate or remain in any place of business or private residence within the City of Fort Collins against the will of the proprietor or the person in charge of such premises after having been requested by such person to vacate such premises Section 2 Offenses Against Morality and Public Policy No person in the City of Fort Collins shall (a) Carrying or Drinking Liquor or Fermented Malt Beverages Prohibited Certain Places Carry or have any open containers of liquor or fermented malt beverages on any street, sidewalk, alley or other public place in the City of Fort Collins or in any automobile in the City or on the grounds of any public or private school, college or university in said City nor shall any person drink any liquor or fermented malt beverages in or on any of the above enumerated places in the City (b) Intoxication Be found upon any street, alley or other public grounds of the City in the state of intoxication (c) Nudity, Improper or Indecent Dress, Indecent Exposure, etc Appear in any public place in the City in a nude state, or state of -2- undress, or in a state of dress not belonging to his, her or their sex, or in an indecent or lewd state of dress nor shall any person make any indecent exposure of his or her person or be guilty of any lewd or indecent act or behavior (d) Solicitation of Drink No female persons shall frequent or loiter in any place selling fermented malt beverages for the purpose of soliciting men to purchase drinks, nor shall any proprietor or operator of any such place allow the presence in such place of any woman who violates this sub-section (e) Vulgar, Profane or Indecent Language Use vulgar, profane or any indecent language on any public street or other public place or any public dance hall, club dance, skating rink, restaurant or any place of business open for public patronage (f) Window Peeping Look peer, or peep into or be found loitering around or within view of any window not on his own property with the intent of watching or looking through said window Section 3 Offenses Against Property No person in the City of Fort Collins shall (a) Injuring or Removing Property Wilfully, maliciously, wantonly, negligently or otherwise injure, deface, destroy or remove real property or improvements thereto or personal property belonging to the City or any person in the City (b) Litter Throw or permit to be deposited or scattered upon any sidewalk, alley, street or other public place in the City or on any private property in the City any loose paper, rags, waste or other material of any kind, nor shall any person distribute or scatter hand bills, dodgers, or other papers nor shall any person owning or occupying any lot or ground in the City allow or permit any loose paper, rags, waste or other material -3- which may be liable to be blown or scattered by the wind or otherwise to remain upon such lot or grounds (c) Posting Notices Fasten in any way any show card, poster or other advertising device upon public or private property in the City unless legally authorized so to do (d) Tampering Tamper with, injure, deface, destroy, or remove any sign, notice, marker, fire alarm box, fire plug, topographical survey monument or any other personal property directed or placed by the City Section 4 Offenses Against Public Authority No person in the City of Fort Collins shall (a) False Alarm of Fire or Need for Police or Ambulance Assistance Intentionally make, turn in or give a false alarm of fire, or of need for police or ambulance assistance or aid or abet in the commission of such act (b) False Report of Crime Make to or file with the Police Department of the City any false, misleading or informal statement or report concerning the commission or alleged commission of any crime occurring within the City (c) Interference with Police Department (1) Resisting Officers Resist any police officer, any member of the Police Department or any person duly empowered with police authority while in the discharge of his duty or in any way interfere with or hinder him in the discharge of his duties (2) Assisting an Escape Offer or endeavor to assist any person in the custody of at-police officer, a member of the Police Department or person duly empowered with police authority to escape or attempt to escape from such custody -4- (3) Impersonating an Officer No person other than an official police officer of the City shall wear or carry the uniform, apparel, badge, identification card or any other insignia of office, like or similar to, or a colorable imitation of that adopted or worn, or carried by the official police officers of the City Nor shall any person in any other way falsely represent himself to be a police or other officer of the City nor shall any person not being authorized exercise any duty, power or function of any police officer or other officer of the City (4) Refusal to Assist Refuse to assist any police officer in making any arrest, or quelling any disturbance when requested by such officer to do so (d) Escape of Prisoners (1) Assisting an Escape of Prisoner Make available to, present to or place within the reach of any persons confined under authority of the City, intoxicating or malt liquors or any tool, implement or other thing calculated to aid in the escape of such persons so confined or any other persons confined through the authority of the City (2) Aiding Escapes Assist or aid or attempt to assist or aid any person in the custody of or confinement of the City to escape from jail, place of confinement or custody (3) Escape from Jail While a prisoner in the City jail or any other place where prisoners are confined or otherwise in custody or confined by the City, escape or attempt to escape or to assist others to escape or attempt -5- to escape from such custody or confinement Section 5 Offenses Against Public Safety No person in the City of Fort Collins shall (a) Discharge of Weapons Discharge any firearms, provided, however, that nothing contained in this section shall apply to any police officer or other officer of the City in the execution of his duties or to any person lawfully defending property (b) Thowing of Missiles Throw any stones, snowballs or other objects or missiles, upon or at any vehicle, building, tree or other public or private property or upon or gat any person in any public way or upon other public grounds (c) Ball Playing Throw, kick or knock a ball or play ball in any other manner upon any public street, alley or sidewalk Section 6 Offenses Involving Children (a) Curfew No person under the age of 17 years shall frequent, loiter, loaf, play or remain upon any street, alley or public grounds in an unoccupied or vacant lot or lots, block or blocks in or about or upon any stairway, hall, or area of any business or public building or in any vacant or unoccupied building or buildings within the corporate limits of the City of Fort Collins between the hours of 9 00 P M and 6 00 A M (b) Parents and Guardians Not to Permit Children to Loiter No parent, or parents, guardian or guardians or any other person or persons having the care or custody of children under the age of 17 years shall knowingly permit such children to loaf, loiter, play or remain upon the street or any of the places named in sub-section (a) above between the hours named in said sub-section -6- f (c) Abandoned Refrigerators or Iceboxes No person shall leave outside of any building or dwelling place or in any place or in any uninhabited building or any place accessible to children, any abandoned, unattended or discarded refrigerator, icebox or similar container which has an air tight or sound proof door having a snap lock or similar devise which can not be opened from the inside without first removing the lock or similar devise on the doors from the refrigerators or icebox or similar containers (d) Hanging on Moving Vehicles No minor shall hang on to any moving vehicle in the City of Fort Collins Section 7 Violation of Ordinances Any person who violates any provision of this ordinance shall be guilty of a violation of the ordinances of the City of Fort Collins and shall be punished according to provisions of said ordinances Section 8 Severance Clause If any section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid for any reason such devision shall not affect the validity of the remaining sections, sentences, clauses or phrases of this ordinance or of the ordinances as an entirety It being the legislative intent that this ordinance shall stand notwithstanding the validity of such section, sentence, clause or phrase Section 9 Repeal Chapter 18 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, 1958, and all other ordinances of parts of ordinances in conflict with the within ordinances are hereby repealed Introduced, considered favorably upon first reading and ordered published this 6th day of January, A D 1966, and to be presented for final passage on the 27th day of January, A D 1966 Mai/ ATTEST City Cl rk -7- Passed and adopted on final reading this 27th day of January, A D , 1966 ,1Iav r�- ATTEST City Cle -8-