Jackson Municipal Code Ch. 9.52 Obstructing Public Ways

It is unlawful and a misdemeanor for any of the persons composing a company or crowd of three or more persons to obstruct, impede, or impair the free and peaceful passage of others on or along any street, side-walk, bridge, public way, any parking lot to which public has access, entrance to any theater or any other place open to the public.

(Ord. 9 §46, 1906; Ord. 24 §3, 1906; Ord. 524 §1, 1989)

Every person who obstructs the free movement of any person (or vehicle) on any street, sidewalk or other public place or on or in any place open to the public or who exhibits offensive personal conduct (as defined and proscribed in California Penal Code Section 647) in any of the said public places with the intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm, or wantonly creating a risk thereof is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or by both fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court.

(Ord. 437 §3, 1979; Ord. 525 §2, 1989)

Every person who wilfully refuses to obey a lawful order by a police officer to disperse so as to clear the obstruction of public ways and places as provided in this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, by imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months, or by both fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court.

(Ord. 524 §3, 1989)