Biggs Municipal Code Art. I Large Assemblages

(1) It shall be unlawful for any person, in or upon any public street, alley or public place in the city of Biggs, to make any loud or unusual noise, or to speak in a loud or unusual tone, or to cry out or proclaim, for the purposes of inducing or influencing, or attempting to induce or influence, any person to refrain from entering any works or factory or any place of business or employment, or for the purpose of inducing or influencing, or attempting to induce or influence, any person to refrain from purchasing or using any goods, wares, merchandise or other article or articles, or for the purpose of inducing or influencing or attempting to induce or influence, any person to refrain from doing or performing any service or labor in any works, factory, place of business or employment, or for the purpose of intimidating, threatening or coercing any person who is performing, seeking or obtaining service or labor in any works, factory, place of business or employment.

(2) It shall be unlawful for any person in or upon any public street, alley or public place in the city of Biggs to accost, stop or interfere with any person for the purpose of inducing or influencing, or attempting to induce or influence, any person to refrain from entering any works or factory or any place of business or employment, or for the purpose of inducing or influencing, or attempting to induce or influence, any person to refrain from purchasing or using any goods, wares, merchandise or other article or article or for the purpose of inducing or influencing, or attempting to induce or influence, any person to refrain from doing or performing any service or labor in any works, factory, place of business or employment, or for the purpose of intimidating, threatening or coercing any person who is performing, seeking or obtaining service or labor in any works, factory, place of business or employment.

(3) It shall be unlawful for any person upon any public street, alley or public place in the city of Biggs to offer or give to any person any handbills or printed matter defamatory in character or containing matters that intend to incite violence or disorder, or to disturb or spread upon the streets, alleys or public places any handbills or printed matter that intends to incite violence or disorder.

(4) It shall be unlawful for any person upon any public street, alley or public place in the city of Biggs to parade, march or walk in front of any works, factory, or place of business or employment carrying signs or banners containing defamatory matter or words that would tend to cause riots or disorder.

(5) Nothing in this section shall prohibit or restrain, or is intended to prohibit or restrain, any peaceable picketing and nothing herein shall limit the right of any organization to picket peaceably any works, factory, place of business or employment in which or because of which industrial disputes exist; and provided further, that "peaceable picketing" as mentioned in this section shall not, and does not, include large assemblages of persons in groups, or the parading, walking or marching in front of any works, factory, place of business or employment by numbers of persons carrying signs or banners, or numbers in excess of the number required to convey the information to be conveyed by such signs or banners, or to permit such numbers as would interfere or block the normal use of the said streets, alleys, sidewalks and public places by vehicles or pedestrians.

(6) Violation of this section or any part hereof shall constitute a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of not to exceed $500.00 or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Ord. 83 §§ 1 – 6, 1938)

(1) It shall be unlawful for any group of persons to assemble together on either the public streets of the city of Biggs or in public parks or property for the purpose of conducting meetings where speaking is done or entertainment provided or goods or merchandise sold or offered for sale, or where such group in anywise tends to block or interfere with traffic or in anywise disturbs peace or interferes with the normal use of said streets, parks or public places, unless they shall first obtain a written permit from the chief of police of the city of Biggs at least five days before the date of such proposed meeting.

(2) For the purpose of this section, 10 or more persons assembled together for any of the above purposes in either the streets of Biggs or the public parks and other public places of Biggs shall be deemed to constitute an unlawful assembly within the meaning of this section.

(3) The chief of police of the city of Biggs is hereby authorized to issue a permit for the holding of an assembly on either the streets of Biggs or in the public parks and other public places when there has first been submitted to him that such assembly will not block or interfere with traffic or in anywise disturb the ordinary and customary use of said streets, parks and public places. Said permit shall designate the time and place of such meeting and shall authorize the holding of such meeting under terms and conditions as set forth in said permit.

(4) Violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not to exceed $500.00 or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Ord. 84 §§ 1 – 4, 1938)