Compton Municipal Code § 7-8 Intoxication, Disorderly Conduct

[Ord. #856, §§ 4600 — 4600.1]

No intoxicated person shall wilfully appear, remain, or be in or on any public street, park, playground, or other public place in the City, whether such person is or is not in or upon any automobile, street or inter-urban car, vehicle, or conveyance.

No intoxicated person shall wilfully appear, remain or be in or on any place open to public view, or in any store, railway depot, stadium, or other place to which the public is admitted or invited or in any private premises or in any private house to the annoyance of any other person.

[Ord. #856, § 4600.2]

No person shall lie and sleep on any of the sidewalks, streets, or other public places, within the City, or appear therein in such a state of intoxication or drunkenness as to be unable to take proper care of himself, or disturb the peace or quiet of any person, family or neighborhood, by drunkenness or by making loud and unusual noises, or by violent or offensive language, or by boisterous, tumultuous or offensive conduct, or by threatening, traducing, quarreling, fighting or offering or challenging to fight, or in any other way or manner whatever shall disturb the peace, quiet and decency of any person, street, or neighborhood.

[Added by Ord. #935, § 4600.3; Ord. #1894, § 1; Ord. #1917, § 1; Ord. #2022, § 1]

a. No person shall drink any alcoholic beverage: (1) on any public street, sidewalk, parkway or alley, City park, City recreation area, City open space, or playground, or in any railroad depot or bus station, or any public place unless authorized by the City Manager; or (2) in any place open to the patronage of the public, which premises are not licensed for the consumption of such liquor or alcoholic beverage on the premises; or (3) on private property open to public view without the express permission of the owner, his or her agent, or the person in lawful possession thereof.

b. "Alcoholic Beverage" includes alcohol, spirits, liquor, wine, beer and every liquid or solid containing alcohol, spirits, wine or beer, and which contains 1/2% or more of alcohol by volume and which is fit for beverage purposes either alone or when diluted, mixed, or combined with other substances.

c. Any violation of this section is a misdemeanor.

[Ord. #856, § 4601]

No person shall keep a riotous or disorderly house, or permit any riotous or disorderly conduct in his house, yard or premises connected with his house, or be guilty of any riotous or disorderly conduct in any house, yard or premises, whereby the peace, quiet or decency of the neighborhood of such house or of any person may be disturbed.

[Added by Ord. #985, § 4602]

a. No person, either as owner, manager, producer, director, actor, or agent, or who acts in any other capacity, shall give, direct, present or participate in any obscene, indecent, immoral, or impure drama, play, exhibition, show or entertainment, or any obscene, indecent, immoral, impure scene, tableau, incident, part or portion of any drama, play, exhibition, show or entertainment, which tends to corrupt the morals of youth or others, or which depicts or deals with the subject or theme of sex degeneracy or sex perversion, or sex inversion.

b. No person shall exhibit or perform, or participate in the possession of any obscene, indecent or lewd play or representation.

§ 7-8.6. through § 7-8.14. (Reserved)

[Added by Ord. #985, § 4612]

a. No person shall show, exhibit, display, rent, sell, loan or give to any person, any motion picture or the projection of any picture, which pictures illustrate, or depict any immoral, indecent, lewd, lascivious or unlawful act, suggestion, business or purpose or any murder, suicide, robbery or holdup, shooting, stabbing, clubbing, or beating of any human being in such a manner as to offend public morals or decency, or which delineates any other matter in such a manner as to offend public morals or decency.

b. Any person authorized or enjoined to arrest any person for the violation of Paragraph a of this subsection, is equally authorized and enjoined to seize any motion picture or film, the exhibition and display of which is by this section prohibited, in the possession or under the control of the person so arrested, and deliver the same to the judge before whom the person so arrested is required to be taken.

[Ord. #2009, § 1]

a. No person shall urinate or defecate in or upon any public street, sidewalk, parkway or alley, City park, City recreation area, public building or publicly maintained facility, or any place open to the public, or on private property open to public view.

b. This section shall not apply to urination or defecation which is done in any restroom or other facility designed for the sanitary disposal of human waste.