Article 4 — Disorderly Conduct

No person shall engage in any disorderly or boisterous conduct, or disturb the peace by assaulting, striking or fighting, or be found in an intoxicated or drunken condition upon any street, thoroughfare, alley, sidewalk or grounds or in or upon any premises within the City, or expose his or her person or any part thereof in any indecent or lewd manner in any place, or suffer to be made on his or her premises or upon premises under his or her ownership, management or control any disorder or tumult, to the disturbance of the public peace, or utter in the presence of two or more persons any bawdy, lewd or obscene words or epithets, or address another with any words, language or expressions having a tendency to create a breach of the peace, or utter or use within the hearing of one or more persons any seditious language. (Prior code § 30-40)

• A. A person shall not operate any motor vehicle including any motorcycle, trail bike, dune buggy, motor scooter, gocart or jeep, or the motor thereof, on any vacant lot, parking lot, vacant property or acreage so as to disturb the peace or quiet of any neighborhood or person by noise, dust, smoke or fumes caused by such motor vehicle.

• B. The provisions of subsection A do not apply to any act prohibited by Section 372 of the Penal Code of the State, or prohibited or expressly permitted by any statute of the State.

• (Prior code §§ 30-41—30-42)

• A. No person shall camp in any vehicle parked in any public place in the City between the hours of 9:00 p.m. of one day and 9:00 a.m. of the next day. For purposes of this section, "public place" means any street, roadway, boulevard, alley, parking lot, sidewalk, public right-of-way, or any place or location, whether on private or public property, to which the general public is invited or to which the general public has access.

• B. For purposes of subsection A, "camp" means to live in sleep in, occupy, inhabit or use any vehicle as temporary or permanent shelter or quarters.

• (Prior code §§ 30-42.1, 30-42.2)

It is unlawful and a misdemeanor for any person to act, or permit, or suffer to be permitted the acts prohibited by this article and are punishable by imprisonment or by fine or penalty or both as provided by law.

(Prior code § 30-43)

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City of Paramount, CA

PUBLIC PEACE AND WELFARE

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