60-69 Amend 509.10 (a) General - unlawful congregation

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ORDINANCE NO. 60-69 BY: Messrs. Gaydos, G~bcr Hu-ffman, Usher, Ward, Wendling AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE to amend Section 509.10(a) of the General Offenses Code of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood relating to unlawful congregation in the City of Lakewood. WHEREAS, The shopping centers and retail business districts of the City, including parking lots, have become hangouts for teenagers and young adults,with loitering and the use of abusive and obscene language in public, endangering the comfort, repose, peace and safety of shoppers, pedestrians and residents in the immediate vicinity and it is necessary to regulate and maintain order in and around said shopping centers and retail business districts of the City~ and, WHEREAS, This ordinance constitutes an emergency measure providing for the immediate preservation of the public health, safety and welfare; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF. LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That Section 509.10(a) of the General Offenses Code of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood, now reading as follows: Section 509.10 Unlawful congregation on sidewalks, public grounds. "(a) No person shall congregate with others on the sidewalk, street corner or within the parks or public grounds, with intent to provoke 'a breach of the peace; or whereby a breach of the peace may be occasioned by the serious annoyance to pedestrians or by threatening, insulting or abusive conduct to them; or refuse to move on when ordered by a police officer." be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 509.10 Unlawful congregation on sidewalks, public grounds, and other areas. (a) No person shall congregate with others on the sidewalk, street corner, within the parks or public grounds, or in or about the shopping centers and retail business districts of the city, including but not limited to the areas desig- nated by the property owner for off-street parking, the ingress and egress thereto, driveways, sidewalks, malls, arcades, service areas and the entranceways into stores and buildings, with intent to provoke a breach of the peace; or whereby a breach of the peace may be occasioned by the serious annoyance to shoppers, pedestrians or residents in the immediate vicinity; or by threatening, · insulting or abusive conduct to 'them; or for the purpose '.of lingering or loitering in any ~anner whiCh will obstruct, impede or interfere with the free passage of other persons using said areas; or refuse to move on when ordered by a police officer.