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~r ORDINANCE N0. 69-31 BY: MR. SCiSfIDT AN ORDINANCE REGULATING AND IfAINTAINING ORDER IN AND AROUND PUBLIC PORTIONS OF SHOPPING CENTERS, BUSINESS CENTERS, SCHOOL YARDS, CHURCH YARDS, PARKING LOTS AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION. WHEREAS, Council has been advised that shopping centers, business centers, school yards, church yards, parking lots and other public places in the Village of Mayfield have been and could be scenes for loitering, drag racing and racing of motorcycles, littering on the sidewalks and the use of abusive and obscene language in such public places, thereby endangering the safety, convenience and caelfare of shoppers and other persons frequenting and making use of the facilities of such public places, and WfiEREAS, Council has determined that it is necessary to regulate and maintain order in and around the public places hereinabove described. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF MAY- FIELD, CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO, THAT: Section 1. No person shall, on the public portions of any shopping center, business center, school yard, church yard, parking lot or other public place within the Village of Mayfield, or on the driveways, sidewalks, malls, arcades, service areas and entrance ways into stores and buildings in such areas: (1) Race the motor of any vehicle,. needlessly bring to a sudden start or stop any motor vehicle, blocr any horn of any motor vehicle needlessly, engage in any race with another vehicle so as to create a nuisance or a disturbance or so as to annoy or endanger any person or persons or other vehicle lawfully in such place. (2) Assemble or congregate with one or more other persons in any of the places above-described for the purpose of loitering or acting in any manner cahich will obstruct, impede or interfere with the free passage of other pedestrians and vehicles using said area. (3) In the presence or hearing of another person, curse. or abuse such person, or use any violent abusive language or obscene language to such person, concerning such person or any member of his family, under circum- stances reasonably calculated to provoke a breach of the peace, yell, shout, use obscene, vulgar or indecent language, scaear or curse or yell or shriek in a manner calculated to disturb the peace and quiet of other persons lawfully in said area. (4) Harass by any means, bother or injure any other person or persons in such area, by making loud or indecent suggestions, either by oral expressions or by a physical act.