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Title 9 — PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE

Long Beach Municipal Code Ch. 9.30 Disorderly Conduct

Long Beach Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Long Beach

Cite as: Long Beach Municipal Code Chapter 9.30 · Text as of 2026-10-04

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State Law reference— Provisions on disorderly conduct, Pen. C. § 647.

9.30.010 - Annoying people or acting as capper.

No person shall:

A. Make insulting remarks to any person; or annoy or accost any person unknown to him;

B. Act as a capper for any place of amusement or for any place or person devoted to or engaged in any unlawful business, calling or vocation.

(Prior code § 4130)

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9.30.020 - Public disrobing.

No person shall dress or undress, or change clothing, in any public toilet or comfort station, or in any public recreational area, public beach, public street or any other property under the supervision and control of the recreational commission, or within or on any motor vehicle while the same is standing upon any public street or other public place.

(Prior code § 4130.1)

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9.30.025 - Misdemeanor to enter a public restroom designated for use by the opposite sex.

No person above the age of five (5) years shall enter any public restroom or restroom in any public place designated for use by either men or women unless he or she is the appropriate sex. Violation thereof is a misdemeanor.

(Ord. C-5907 § 1, 1982)

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9.30.030 - Public expectoration.

No person shall discharge mucus from the nose or mouth, or spit upon any sidewalk or other paved area of any park or recreation center, or upon any roque court, shuffleboard court, or other hard surfaced place set apart for the playing of any game in any park or recreation center, or upon any pier or promenade, or other public place whatsoever, or in any place where food intended for human consumption is stored, prepared, processed or served.

(Prior code § 4130.3)

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9.30.040 - Unlawful assembly.

It is declared to be unlawful and a nuisance for any persons to congregate or assemble upon, over or across, or for any person to aid or instigate the congregation or assembling of persons, upon, over or across any street, lawn area or way or portion thereof in any public park, beach, pier, wharf or building or any entrance, steps or hallway leading in, to or through said places, in such a manner as to obstruct, hinder or annoy any person or persons in the free use thereof.

(Prior code § 4130.4)

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9.30.050 - Obstructing public passage.

No person shall block, impede or obstruct any public place or any entrance, exit or approach to any place of business in a manner calculated or with intent to prevent, delay, hinder or interfere with any person in the free passage along or the entering or leaving of such public place or place of business.

(Ord. C-5494 § 1, 1978: prior code § 4130.12)

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9.30.060 - Lookouts for illegal acts.

A. No person shall act as a guard or lookout for any building, premises or establishment used for gambling, prostitution, or any other form of vice or illegal act, or where intoxicating liquors are illegally kept, sold or purchased, or for any person soliciting, offering or engaging in prostitution, gambling or any other form of vice or illegal act, on street or sidewalk.

B. No person shall give any signal, intended to, or calculated to warn, or give warning of the approach of any peace officer to any person in or about such building or premises or places mentioned in Subsection 9.30.060.A.

(Ord. C 5882 § 1, 1982)

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