§ 132.01. Disorderly conduct.

A.

No person shall recklessly cause inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm to another by doing any of the following:

1.

Engaging in fighting, in threatening harm to persons or property, or in violent or turbulent behavior;

2.

Making unreasonable noise or offensively coarse utterance, gesture, or display, or communicating unwarranted and grossly abusive language to any person;

3.

Insulting, taunting, or challenging another, under circumstances in which such conduct is likely to provoke a violent response;

4.

Hindering or preventing the movement of persons on a public street, road, highway, or right-of-way, or to, from, within, or upon public or private property, so as to interfere with the rights of others, and by any act which serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender;

5.

Creating a condition which is physically offensive to persons or which presents a risk of physical harm to persons or property, by any act which serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender.

B.

No person, while voluntarily intoxicated, shall do either of the following:

1.

In a public place or in the presence of two or more persons, engage in conduct likely to be offensive or to cause inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm to persons of ordinary sensibilities, which conduct the offender, if he were not intoxicated, should know is likely to have such effect on others;

2.

Engage in conduct or create a condition which presents a risk of physical harm to himself or another, or to the property of another.

C.

Violation of any statute or ordinance of which an element is operating a motor vehicle, locomotive, watercraft, aircraft, or other vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, is not a violation of subsection B of this section.

D.

When, to an ordinary observer, a person appears to be intoxicated, it is probable cause to believe such person is voluntarily intoxicated for purposes of subsection B of this section.

E.

Whoever violates this section is guilty of disorderly conduct, a minor misdemeanor, except that if the offender persists in disorderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to desist, or if the offender is within one thousand feet of the boundaries of any school, school premises, or school building, disorderly conduct is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.

F.

As used in this section, "school," "school premises," and "school building" have the same meaning as in R.C. § 2925.01. Penalty, see § 130.99. (R.C. § 2917.11)

(Ord. 223-1991; Ord. 728-1973)