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Title 9 — Public Peace, Morals and Welfare

San Dimas Municipal Code Ch. 9.28 Disorderly Conduct

San Dimas Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · San Dimas

Cite as: San Dimas Municipal Code Chapter 9.28 · Text as of 2026-10-04

§ 9.28.010. 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 premises within the city; or expose his or her person or any part thereof in a lewd and offensive manner in any place in the city where there are other persons to be offended or annoyed thereby; or to make in any place, or suffer to be made on his or her premises or upon premises under his or her 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 by 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 § 19-3)

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§ 9.28.020. Disorderly houses.

No person shall keep a riotous or disorderly house, or permit any riotous or disorderly conduct in his or her house, yard or premises connected with his or her 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.

(Prior code § 19-4)

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§ 9.28.030. Loitering.

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

No person shall loiter or stand or sit in or at the entrance of any church, hall, theater or place of public assemblage so as in any manner to obstruct such entrance.

(Prior code § 19-10; Ord. 447 § 2, 1974)

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§ 9.28.040. Unnecessary noise.

No person shall make, cause or suffer or permit to be made upon any premises owned, occupied or controlled by him or her, any unnecessary noises or sounds which are physically annoying to persons of ordinary sensitiveness or which are so harsh or so prolonged or unnatural or unusual in their use, time or place as to occasion physical discomfort to the inhabitants of any neighborhood.

(Prior code § 19-14)

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§ 9.28.050. Demonstration equipment prohibited.

A. No person shall carry or possess while participating in any demonstration, rally, picket line, or other such public assembly, any length of lumber, wood, wood lath, or other wood product, unless the other dimensions of such object do not exceed a thickness of one-fourth inch and a width of two inches; or if not generally rectangular in shape, such object shall not exceed three-quarters inch in its thickest dimension; and such object is blunt and unsharpened at its end and edge.

B. No person shall carry or possess while participating in any demonstration, rally, picket line, or other such public assembly, any bar, shaft, rod, cable, wire, or other such length of hard metal, hard plastic, or other hard synthetic material.

(Ord. 696 § 1, 1980)

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