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 Chapter 28. OFFENSES—MISCELLANEOUS

  § 28-11. Disorderly conduct in public places.  

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  • A person is guilty of disorderly conduct and a Class 1 misdemeanor if, with the intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, such person:

    (a)

    In any street, highway, public building, or while in or on a public conveyance or public place, engages in conduct having a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the person or persons at whom, individually, such conduct is directed;

    (b)

    Willfully, or being intoxicated, whether willfully or not, and whether such intoxication results from self-administered alcohol or other drug of whatever nature, disrupts any funeral, memorial service, or meeting of the city council or a division or agency thereof, or of any school, literary society or place of religious worship, if such disruption: (i) prevents or interferes with the orderly conduct of the funeral, memorial service; or meeting or (ii) has a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the person or persons at whom, individually, such disruption is directed; or

    (c)

    Willfully, or being intoxicated, whether willfully or not, and whether such intoxication results from self-administered alcohol or other drug of whatever nature, disrupts the operation of any school or any activity conducted or sponsored by any school, if the disruption: (i) prevents or interferes with the orderly conduct of the operation or activity; or (ii) has a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the person or persons at whom, individually, the disruption is directed.

    However, the conduct prohibited under subdivision (a), (b) or (c) of this section shall not be deemed to include the utterance or display of any words or to include conduct otherwise made punishable under Title 18.2 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended.

    The person in charge of any such building, place, conveyance, meeting, operation or activity may eject therefrom any person who violates any provision of this section, with the aid, if necessary, of any persons who may be called upon for such purpose.

    (Ord. No. 2178, Code 1961, § 25-14; Ord. No. 2319; Ord. No. 6699-10)

    State Law reference— Similar provisions, Code of Virginia, § 18.2-415.

(Ord. No. 2178, Code 1961, § 25-14; Ord. No. 2319; Ord. No. 6699-10)

State law reference

Similar provisions, Code of Virginia, § 18.2-415.