Title 11 - Peace, Morals and Safety

11.28.070 Obstructing Ingress and Egress.

It shall be illegal for any person to obstruct any public street, public highway, public sidewalk or public building or any other place of public access by hindering or impeding or tend to hinder or impede the free and uninterrupted passage of vehicles, traffic or pedestrians or to commit in or upon any public street, public highway, public sidewalk or public building or any other place of public access any act or thing which is an obstruction or interference to the free and uninterrupted use of property or with any business lawfully conducted by anyone in or upon or facing or fronting on any such public street, public highway, public sidewalk or public building or any other place of public access, all of which prevents the free and uninterrupted ingress, egress, and regress therein, thereon, and thereto.

When any person causes or commits any of the conditions enumerated in this section, a law enforcement officer shall order that person to stop causing or committing such conditions and to move on or disperse. Any person who fails or refuses to obey such order is guilty of a violation of this section.

(History: Ord. POC-1856 §1, 94; POC-625 §58, 72; PO-84 §33 & 55)

Effective on: 1/1/1901