§ 46-19. Disorderly conduct.

It shall be unlawful for any person within the corporate limits of the city to violate any of the following provisions of this section:

(1)

Any person who shall act in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another whereby any person is placed in fear of safety of his life, limb or health;

(2)

Any person who shall act in violent or tumultuous manner toward another whereby the property of any person is placed in danger of being destroyed or damaged;

(3)

Any person who shall cause, provoke or engage in any fight, brawl or riotous conduct as so to endanger the life, limb, health or property of another;

(4)

Any person who shall assemble or congregate with one or more persons for the purpose or with the intent in gaming;

(5)

Any person who shall frequent any public place with intent to obtain money from other persons by illegal and fraudulent schemes, artifices or devises;

(6)

Any person who assembles for the purpose of engaging in any fraudulent scheme, devise or trick to obtain any valuable thing in any place or from any person in the city or who shall aid or abet therein;

(7)

Any person who shall accost or force his company upon any person;

(8)

Any person who frequents any place where gaming or the illegal sale or possession of alcoholic beverages, narcotics or dangerous drugs is practiced, allowed or tolerated;

(9)

Any person who shall use fighting words directed towards any person who becomes outraged and thus creates a turmoil;

(10)

Any person who shall by acts of violence interfere with another's pursuit of a lawful occupation;

(11)

Any person who shall congregate with one or more persons in or on any public way so as to halt the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic and who refuses to clear such public way when ordered by the city police or other lawful authority;

(12)

Any person who shall disrupt, by excessive noise or disorderly actions, the undisturbed activities of any institution of learning, house of worship or any hospital;

(13)

Any person who shall throw any bottle, paper, can, glass, stick, stone, missile or any other debris on public property;

(14)

Any person who shall commit an act of public indecency tending to debauch the morals of any person;

(15)

Any person who shall be found in a state of drunkenness or intoxication upon the public rights-of-way, city or other publicly owned property or any public park;

(16)

Any person who commits any act against public safety, morality and decency, or who exhibits any other conduct that is manifestly disorderly that tends to disturb other persons anywhere in the city.

(Code 1979, § 31-101)

State law reference

Similar provision, O.C.G.A. § 16-11-39.