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Part 50
50.000 CONDUCT OF INDIVIDUALS* Ord. No. 5 Adopted: April 2, 1973
---------- *Cross reference(s)--Penalty for ordinance violation, Pt. 1; recreational facilities, Pt. 10; disorderly conduct at car washes and laundromats, § 11.002; conduct in City parks, Pt. 51; noise control, Pt. 72. ----------
An ordinance to regulate the conduct of individuals within
the City Limits of Reading.
THE CITY OF READING ORDAINS THAT:
50.001 Definitions.
(A) The term "public place" as used in this Chapter shall mean
any street, alley, park, public building, any place of
business or assembly open to or frequented by the public,
and any other place which is open to the public view, or to
which the public has access.
50.002 Acts prohibited.
(B) No person shall:
(1) Commit an assault, or an assault and battery on any
person;
(2) Be drunk in any public place or under the influence of
any narcotic drug in any public place;
(3) Engage in any indecent, insulting, immoral, or obscene
conduct in any public place;
(4) Discharge any firearm, air rifle, air pistol or bow and
arrow in the City, except when lawfully acting in the
defense of persons or property or the enforcement of
law or at a duly established range, the operation of
which has been approved by the Council;
(5) Fire, discharge, display, or possess any fireworks
except of the type and under the conditions permitted
by Chapter 29 of the Penal Code of the State of
Michigan, as last amended by Act 242 of the Public Acts
of 1949;
(6) Engage in peeping in the windows of any inhabited
place;
(7) Beg in any public place;
(8) Swim or bathe in any public place without wearing
proper apparel;
(9) Utter vile, profane or obscene language in any public
place;
(10) Engage in fortune telling or pretend to tell fortunes
for hire, gain or reward;
(11) Make any immoral exhibition or indecent exposure of his
or her person;
(12) Print, engrave, sell, offer for sale, give away,
exhibit or publish, or have in his possession for any
such purpose any obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent or
immodest book, pamphlet, paper, picture, cast statuary,
image or representation or other article of an indecent
or immoral nature, or any book, paper print, circular
or writing made up principally of pictures or stories
of immodest deeds, lust, or crime, or exhibit any such
article within the view of any passer-by;
(13) Wilfully destroy, remove, damage, alter or in any
manner deface any property not his own, or any public
school building, or any public building, bridge, fire
hydrant, alarm box, street light, street sign, traffic
control device, railroad sign or signal, parking meter,
or shade tree belonging to the City or located in the
public places of the City, or mark or post handbills
on, or in any manner mar the walls of, any public
building, or fence, tree, or pole within the City, or
destroy, take, or meddle with any property belonging to
the City, or remove the same from the building or place
where it may be kept, placed or stored, without proper
authority; or disturb, tamper with, disconnect or
damage any City water meter without proper authority;
(14) Destroy, injure or in any manner deface any drinking
fountain located in the City, or throw or deposit any
substance therein, or in any manner pollute the water
in the basin or any fountain or detach the cups or
other parts of such drinking fountain;
(15) Insult, accost, molest, or otherwise annoy, either by
word of mouth, sign, or motion, any person in any
public place;
(16) Engage in any disturbance, fight, or quarrel in a
public place;
(17) Collect or stand in crowds, or arrange, encourage, or
abet the collection of persons in crowds for illegal or
mischievous purposes in any public place;
(18) Jostle or roughly crowd persons in any street, alley,
park, or public building;
(19) Loiter on any street or sidewalk or in any park or
public building or conduct himself in any public place
so as to obstruct the free and uninterrupted passage of
the public;
(20) Play any ball game in any public street or sidewalk or
otherwise obstruct traffic on any street or sidewalk by
collecting in groups thereon, for any purpose;
(21) Engage in any act of prostitution;
(22) Attend, frequent, operate or be an occupant or inmate
of any place where prostitution, gambling, the illegal
sale of intoxicating liquor, or where any other illegal
or immoral business or occupation is permitted or
conducted;
(23) Engage in prostitution, gambling, the illegal sale of
intoxicating liquor, or any other illegal or immoral
business or occupation. Proof of recent reputation for
engaging in prostitution, gambling, illegal sale of
intoxicating liquor, or other illegal or immoral
occupation or business shall be prima facie evidence of
being engaged or occupied therein;
(24) Solicit or accost any person for the purpose of
inducing the commission of any illegal or immoral act;
(25) Knowingly transport any person to a place where
prostitution or gambling is practiced, encouraged, or
allowed for the purpose of enabling such person to
engage in gambling or in any illegal or immoral act;
(26) Keep or maintain a gaming room, gaming tables, or any
policy or pool tickets, used for gaming; or knowingly
suffer a gaming room, gaming tables, or any policy or
pool tickets to be kept, maintained, played or sold on
any premises occupied or controlled by him;
(27) Disturb the public peace and quiet by loud, boisterous,
or vulgar conduct;
(28) Permit or suffer any place occupied or controlled by
him to be a resort of noisy, boisterous, or disorderly
persons;
(29) Obstruct, resist, hinder, or oppose any member of the
police force, or any peace officer in the discharge of
his duties as such;
(30) Wander about the streets, either by day or night, or
loiter in any public building, without any lawful means
of support or without being able to give a satisfactory
account of himself;
(31) Prowl about any alley or the private premises of any
other person in the nighttime, without authority or the
permission of the owner of such premises;
(32) Spit on any sidewalk or on the floor or seat of any
public carrier, or on any floor, wall, seat or
equipment of any place of public assemblage;
(33) Wrongfully throw or propel any snowball, missile or
object from any moving automobile;
(34) Wrongfully throw or propel any snowball, missile or
object toward any person or automobile;
(35) Neglect or fail to support his wife, children or
family, if he shall have sufficient ability to do so,
or leave or desert his wife, children or family without
sufficient means of support.
Effective date. This Ordinance to take effect 10 days after adoption by the City Council.
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