HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 19162DRDZNANCL ND. 19162
AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING DISORDERLY CONDUCT;
AMENDING SECTIQN 4.725 DF THE EUGENE CODE, 1971;
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
THE CITY DF EUGENE DDE5 DRDAZN AS FDLLDws:
Section 1. Section 4.725 of the Eugene Code, 1971, is hereby
amended to read and provide:
4.?25 Disorderly Conduct.
~l} No person shall engage in disorderly conduct.
~2} A person commits the offense of disorderly conduct
if, with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or
alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, that person:
Qa} Engages in fighting or in violent, tumultu-
ous and threatening physical behavior which creates an
unreasonable risk of harm to person or property, or
serious public inconvenience or alarm; or,
fib} Directs to another person in hearing or in
view of a public place words or gestures which when
directed to the ordinary citizen are as a matter of
common knowledge likely to provoke a violent reaction,
and which do provoke a.n the recipient consideration of
a violent reaction; or,
~c} Congregates with other persons in a public
place:
1. So as to obstruct a public passage, or
2. In dangerous proximity to afire or
other hazard,
and fails to comply with the lawful order of the police
to disperse; or
~d} Interferes with a police officer in the off i--
cer's lawful performance of his or her duties. To
interfere with as used in this subsection shall mean
any physical act, including a refusal to leave a par-
ticular area in response to a lawful order from a
police officer, that prevents or could reasonably be
expected to prevent' a police officer from performing
his or her duties; or
~.e} Creates or maintains a physically offensive
or hazardous condition by any act which serves no legi-
timate purpose of the actor, thereby disrupting a group
of persons; or,
~.f} Spits on, in ar against any surface, sub-
stance or person in a public placer or
fig} Urinates or defecates in, or in view of, a
public place, except in a lavatory; or,
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~h} Jumps or dives from any parking structure,
bridge, viaduct, overpass, walkway or other elevated
structure; or
~.i~ Throws or drops any object or material from
any parking structure, bridge, viaduct, overpass, walk-
way or other elevated structure.
~3} For purposes of this section t'public place" means
premises which by function, custom, usage, notice or lack
thereof, their physical nature or other circumstances at the
time, would cause a reasonable person to believe that permis-
sion to enter or remain is not requixed.
Section 2. That the matters contained herein concern the public
health, welfare, and safety and therefore, an emergency is hereby de~-
Glared to exist, and this Ordinance sha11 become effective immedi-
ately upon its passage by the City Council and approval by the Mayor.
Passed by the City Council this
11th day of July,. 198
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City Recor r
approved by the Mayor this
11th day of July, 1983
Mayor
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