§ 50-1. Disorderly conduct.

(a)

This section is cumulative of O.C.G.A. Per O.C.G.A. § 16-11-39, disorderly conduct is prohibited and per state law is defined as follows: a person commits the offense of disorderly conduct when such person commits any of the following:

(1)

Acts in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another person whereby such person is placed in reasonable fear of the safety of such person's life, limb, or health;

(2)

Acts in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another person whereby the property of such person is placed in danger of being damaged or destroyed;

(3)

Without provocation, uses to or of another person in such other person's presence, opprobrious or abusive words which by their very utterance tend to incite to an immediate breach of the peace, that is to say, words which as a matter of common knowledge and under ordinary circumstances will, when used to or of another person in such other person's presence, naturally tend to provoke violent resentment, that is, words commonly called "fighting words;" or

(4)

Without provocation, uses obscene and vulgar or profane language in the presence of or by telephone to a person under the age of 14 years which threatens an immediate breach of the peace.

(b)

Fights, brawls, etc. prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, provoke or engage in any fight, brawl or riotous conduct so as to endanger the life, limb, health or property of another, or to endanger the lawful pursuits of another.

(c)

Conduct in a crowd regulated. It shall be unlawful for any person to assemble with another or others for the purpose of causing, provoking or engaging in any fight or brawl; or jostling or roughly crowding or pushing any person in any public place; or collecting in bodies or in crowds for unlawful purposes as defined by the ordinances or regulations of the city and the state laws; or intending to engage in gaming.

(d)

Fraudulent schemes illegal. It shall be unlawful for any person to frequent any public place in the city with intent to obtain money from other persons by illegal and fraudulent schemes, tricks, artifices or devices; or to engage in any fraudulent scheme, device or trick, to obtain any valuable thing in any place or from any person, or to aid or abet therein.

(e)

Patronizing illegal gaming and alcoholic beverage places prohibited. It shall be unlawful to frequent any place where illegal gaming activities or illegal sales of alcoholic beverages or narcotics or dangerous drugs are allowed or tolerated.

(Code 1982, § 16-101; Amend. of 3-11-2008; § 1; Amend. of 5-10-2016)