HomeMy WebLinkAbout3084 O NANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE relating to the Peace,
Safety and Morals of the City of Bremerton,
Washington, repealing Ordinance No. 325,
Sections 1, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 17, 28, 29 and
31, adopting a new ordinance defining the offense of
Disorderly Conduct.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. That Chapter 9.12 of the Bremerton
Municipal Code, Ordinance No. 325 Sections 1, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12,
17, 28, 29, and 31, is repealed and the following chapter is
substituted therefore to read:
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
1. DRUNK IN PUBLIC. It is unlawful for any person
to be found under the influence of any intoxicating liquor
or any drug not therapeutically administered, or the combination
of intoxicating liquor and any drug in any public street,
public highway, public place or building.
2. ASSAULT. It is unlawful for any person, with
intent to cause bodily injury to another person to cause
bodily injury to any person; or to recklessly cause bodily
injury to another person; or with criminal negligence, to
cause bodily injury to another person. A person is reckless
or acts recklessly when he knows of and consciously disregards
a substantial and unjustifiable risk and disregard of such
risk constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of
condUct that a reasonable and prudent man would exercise
in similar circumstances. A person acts with criminal
negligence when he fails to be aware of a substantial and
unjustifiable risk and the failure to be aware of such risk
constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that
a reasonable and prudent man would exercise in similar
circumstances.
3. DISORDERLY CONDUCT. It is unlawful for any
person, without lawful authority, to knowingly make noise
which unreasonably disturbs another; or disrupt any lawful
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meeting or assembly; or unreasonably inconvenience pedestrian
or vehicular traffic; and refuse or intentionally fail to cease
such activity and to move or disperse when ordered to do so
by a police officer or a person in charge of any lawful meeting
or assembly.
4. HARASSMENT. It is unlawful for any person to
indulge in any conduct or to repeatedly use abusive or
obscene language to intentionally annoy or alarm another
person, thereby creating a substantial risk of assault.
5. UNLAWFUL IDLENESS. It is unlawful for any person
to make a practice of accosting other persons in any public
place or any place open to the public for the purpose of
begging or soliciting alms.
6. LOITERING OR PROWLING. It is unlawful for any
person to loiter or prowl in a place, at a time, or in a
manner not usual for law abiding individuals under circumstances
that warrant alarm for the safety of persons or property
in the vicinity. Among the circumstances which may be
considered in determining whether such alarm is warranted
is the fact that the actor takes flight upon appearance of a
peace officer, refuses to identify himself, or manifestly
endeavors to conceal himself or any object. Unless flight
by actor or other circumstances makes it impractical, a peace
officer shall, prior to any arrest for an offense under this
Section, afford the actor an opportunity to dispel any alarm which
would otherwise be warranted by requesting him to identify
himself and explain his presence and conduct. No person shall be
convicted under this section of an offense if the peace officer
did not comply with the preceding sentence, or if it appears at
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trial that the explanation given by the actor was true and,
if believed by the peace officer at the time, would have
dispelled the alarm.
7. WINDOW PEEPERS AND PEEPING TOMS. It shall be
unlawful for any person to be a window peeper or peeping tom.
For the purposes of this section, the terms "window peeper"
and "peeping tom" are defined as: A person who goes upon
premises within the City of Bremerton tenanted or occupied
by any person other than himself or herself and looks through
any window or windows or similar openings from the outside of
any building thereon without the permission of the tenant or
occupant or other lawful authority to do so.
8. SEVERABILITY. Each of the provisions of this
ordinance are severable, and if any provisions shall be declared
to be inv&lid, the remaining provisions shall not be affected
but shall remain in force and effect.
APPROVED by the City Council of the City of
Bremerton on first reading this ~ ~ay of U~ ~-'", 1973.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton~
signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authentication
of such passage this day of ~/ , 1973.
/ GLENN K. JARSTAD ~ayor'
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