Chapter 12 — OFFENSES—MISCELLANEOUS

1 ;l As to cruelty to animals, see § 4-1 of this Code.

No person shall disturb the peace and good order of the city by creating or making any loud or boisterous noises, or shall engage in quarreling, challenging to fight, fighting or in any riotous conduct, or shall upon the public streets use any vulgar or obscene language.

(Ord. No. 5, § 18.)

2 ;l For state law as to disturbing the peace, see Pen. C., § 415.

No person shall unnecessarily discharge, fire or shoot any gun, pistol, or other firearm of any description, within the city, without first having obtained a permit to do so from the city council.

(Ord. No. 5, § 24.)

It shall be unlawful for any minor under the age of eighteen years to loiter in or upon any public street, highway, road, alley, park, public buildings and places or private land, between the hours of 11:00 P.M. of any day and sunrise of the following day.

Any minor under the age of eighteen years violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the "Arnold Kennick Juvenile Court Law" of the state.

(Ord. No. 241, §§ 1, 2.)

3 ;l As to minors in billiard, pool and bagatelle halls during certain hours, see § 3-1 of this Code. As to presence of minors in cardrooms, see § 3-19.

It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter, stand or sit in or at the entrance of or approach to any hall, church, theater, park or place of public assembly in the city so as to in any manner obstruct any such entrance or approach.

(Ord. No. 107, § 3.)

No person shall loiter, stand or sit in or upon any public street, alley, sidewalk or crosswalk in the city so as to in any way hinder or obstruct the free passage therein or thereon of persons or vehicles passing or attempting to pass along the same, or so as to in any manner annoy or molest persons passing along the same.

(Ord. No. 107, § 2.)

The practice of going in and upon private residences in the city by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants and transient vendors of merchandise, not having been requested or invited so to do by the owner or occupant of such private residences, for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares and merchandise, or for the purpose of disposing of and peddling or hawking the same, is hereby prohibited and declared to be a nuisance. This prohibition does not apply to religious or political speech, as well as charitable associations. A charitable association means and includes any organization, whether or not incorporated, that is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious, fraternal, educational, cultural, civic or other tax exempt purposes or functions as specified in Article I of Chapter 4 of the California Revenue and Taxation Code (commencing with Section 23701), or any successor thereto, and which has been determined by the franchise tax board to be exempt from taxation, or which has established its exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or any successor thereto.

(Ord. No. 103, § 1.)

(Ord. No. 514, § 1, 6-7-2016)

For the purposes of this and the following three sections, the term "dangerous or deadly weapons" includes, but is not limited to, any dirk or dagger; any knife with a blade three inches or more in length, and any push-button or spring-blade knife, regardless of the length of the blade; any ice pick or similar sharp stabbing tool; any straight-edge razor or any razor blade fitted to a handle; any dangerous or deadly weapon within the meaning of the law of this state restricting the use thereof; any cutting, stabbing or

bludgeoning weapon or device capable of inflicting grievous bodily harm; and any firearm other than one carried pursuant to valid permit issued by a duly authorized government authority, or other than any ordinary rifle or shotgun lawfully carried for purposes of hunting or other lawful sport.

(Ord. No. 163, § 1.)

(a)

No person, while carrying concealed upon his person any dangerous or deadly weapon, shall loaf or loiter upon any public street, sidewalk or alley, or wander about from place to place with no lawful business thereby to perform, or hide, lurk or loiter upon or about the premises of another.

(b)

No person, who has concealed upon his person or who has in his immediate physical possession any dangerous or deadly weapon, shall engage in any fight or participate in any rough or disorderly conduct upon any public place or way or upon the premises of another.

(c)

No person, who has concealed upon his person any dangerous or deadly weapon, shall loiter about any place where intoxicating liquors are sold, or any other place of public resort.

(Ord. No. 163, §§ 2, 3, 4.)

* For state law as to concealed weapons generally, see Pen. C., § 12000 et seq.

No person shall have in his possession, in any automobile, any dangerous or deadly weapon, but this restriction shall not be deemed to prohibit the carrying of ordinary tools or equipment carried in good faith for use in honest work, trade or business, or for the purpose of legitimate sport or recreation.

(Ord. No. 163, § 5.)

No person shall sell or give to anyone in the city any push-button or spring-blade knife.

(Ord. No. 163, § 6.)

It shall be unlawful within the city for any person to use, employ or discharge any rubber slingshot or air gun or any machine or contrivance by which missiles are projected either by the expansion of air or gas or by the contraction, expansion or spring of other material.

(Ord. No. 5, § 27.)

(a)

The city council shall, by way of resolution, draft, formulate and promulgate rules and regulations for the use of and the carrying on of activities in the city's parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, public buildings and other public facilities.

(b)

Such rules and regulations, as they pertain to a particular facility, may be posted at such public facility for the purpose of giving notice of the same.

(c)

Copies of such rules and regulations shall be available to the public at the office of the city clerk. The city council may, by resolution, set a reasonable sum to be charged the recipient of such copies.

(d)

It shall be unlawful for any person to violate the rules and regulations established for the use of and carrying on of activities in the city's parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, public buildings and other public facilities. Each violation of such rules and regulations shall constitute an infraction, and punishable on the first offense by a fine not to exceed fifty dollars, and on a second offense a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars. In the alternative, violations of this section may be punishable by such other remedy available by law or this Code, including the issuance of administrative citations pursuant to Chapter 12C of this Code.

(e)

Such rules and regulations may be amended or revised from time to time by resolution of the city council.

(Ord. No. 290, § 1.)

(Ord. No. 455, § 1, 4-20-2010; Ord. No. 476, § 1, 3-20-2012)

(a)

Parks, exclusive of the swimming pool, shall be open daily to the public during the hours of 5:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. and it shall be unlawful for any person (other than city personnel conducting city business therein) to occupy or be present in the park during any hours in which the park is not open to the public, unless prior permission is obtained from the city council.

(b)

It shall be unlawful and an infraction for any person to violate this section, and each violation shall be punishable on the first offense by a fine not to fifty dollars, and on a second offense a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars. In the alternative, violations of this section may be punishable by such other remedy

available by law or this Code, including the issuance of administrative citations pursuant to Chapter 12C of this Code.

(Ord. No. 319, § 1.)

(Ord. No. 476, § 2, 3-20-2012)

It is unlawful for any person to enter or remain upon any posted property during those hours prohibited by the signs posted thereon without the written permission of the owner, tenant, or occupant in the legal possession or control thereof.

Posted property shall mean any private property within the city regularly used for (i) commercial purposes; or (ii) parking for any apartment house (as defined in the city's Zoning Ordinance) on which signs have been placed in the manner hereafter described.

The signs referred to in the paragraph above shall be not less than one square foot in area and will have letters not less than two inches in height which will read, "Trespassing—Loitering Forbidden by Colusa Code Section 12-14" followed by a designation of specific hours during which such trespassing and loitering are prohibited. These signs shall be posted at each entrance to the property, or if such property has no definite entrance, or entrances, they shall be posted in at least two permanent places on the property where they are clearly visible from outside of the property.

A first or second violation of any of the provisions of this section is an infraction punishable on the first offense by a fine not in excess of fifty ($50.00) dollars and on a second offense by a fine not in excess of one hundred ($100.00) dollars. A third or subsequent conviction of any of the provisions of this section, within a period of two years, shall be a misdemeanor, and shall be punishable by a fine of not exceeding two hundred fifty ($250.00) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not exceeding ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Ord. No. 330)

(a)

The drinking of any alcoholic beverage or the possession of any open container which contains an alcoholic beverage is prohibited between the hours of 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. daily in the following places:

(1)

On any street, roadway, highway, parking lot or sidewalk in the city located within a district zoned C-1, C-2, C-2-F, C-3 or C-3-F, (Commonly referred to as Business/Commercial Zones) or within a district zoned P-F (Public Facility) under the city's zoning provisions.

(2)

On any street, roadway, highway, alley, parking lot or sidewalk surrounding and/or adjacent to any public park in the city.

(b)

The drinking of any alcoholic beverage or the possession of any open container which contains an alcoholic beverage is prohibited at any time on any grounds within the city owned by or under the control of a public school district.

(c)

A first or second violation of any of the provisions of this section is an infraction punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($ 25.00) nor more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) for each offense. A third or subsequent conviction of any of the provisions of this section, within a period of two years, shall be a misdemeanor.

(Ord. No. 348, § 1.)

The possession of a lighted or burning tobacco product or tobacco-related product at any time within the boundaries of any park owned or controlled by the city, including designated parking areas of any such park, is prohibited.

(Ord. No. 492, § 1, 10-15-2013)