Selma Municipal Code Ch. 1 General Offenses

The purpose and intent of this chapter is to provide minimum standards to safeguard the life, health, property, and public welfare in keeping with the character of the city by establishing and maintaining standards. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to commit "assault" or "battery" which is hereby defined as any wilful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for two (2) or more persons to assemble together for the purpose of disturbing the peace or for the purpose of committing an unlawful act and not to disperse upon the command of an officer to do so. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to conceal knowledge of the commission of any offense or to conceal knowledge of any unlawful act as defined in this code. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in any illegal or improper diversion or to use insulting, indecent or immoral language, or to be guilty of any indecent, insulting, or immoral conduct or behavior. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person, wilfully, maliciously, intentionally or unnecessarily, to disturb the peace and quiet of another or of any neighborhood or family or religious congregation or other assembly by loud or unusual noises or indecent behavior or by offensive or unbecoming conduct or for any person to threaten, quarrel, fight or provoke an assault or battery or curse or swear or utter any obscene or vulgar or indecent language in the presence of another. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to be found drunk, intoxicated or under the influence upon any public thoroughfare or other public place. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to aid or assist any person to escape from lawful confinement or to assist any person to escape from the custody of any peace officer. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person convicted of any offense or in lawful custody to escape or attempt to escape from custody. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to expectorate or spit upon any sidewalk or upon the floor of any public building or room used for public assemblies. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to obtain any food, drink, goods, wares or merchandise under false pretenses, or to enter any public place and call for refreshments or other articles and receive and refuse to pay for same, or depart without paying for or satisfying the person from whom he received the food, goods, wares and merchandise. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to represent himself to be an officer of the city or who shall attempt to impersonate any such officer or who shall, without authority, perform any official act therein on behalf of an officer. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to deal, play or conduct, either as owner, employee or lessee, whether or not for hire, any game played with cards, dice or any other device for money, checks, credit or other representative of value. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to commit any act or fail to perform any requirement which is prohibited or required by state law, insofar as such laws are applicable to municipal government. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to practice hypnotism or for any person to be a subject for such hypnotist provided that this shall not apply to hypnotism as used in the treatment of patients by an accredited doctor of medicine or doctor of dentistry nor shall it prohibit the teaching of hypnotism in any state accredited educational institution which maintains an academic standard of the college level. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to appear in a state of nudity, or in any indecent or lewd dress or condition in any public place or in any such place to make any indecent exposure of his or her person or private parts thereof, or the private parts of another, or to conduct himself in a lewd or lascivious manner, or to appear in any such place in a dress not belonging to his sex. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

(A) Engaging In Lottery Or Scheme Prohibited: It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in any lottery or scheme for the disposal or distribution of property by chance among persons who have paid or promised to pay any valuable consideration for the chance of obtaining such property or portion of it, or for any share or interest in such property upon any agreement, understanding or expectation that it is to be distributed or disposed of by lot or chance whether such scheme be called lottery, raffle or gift enterprise, or by whatever name the same be known, and no person shall contrive, prepare, set up or establish any such scheme or lottery.

(B) Traffic In Lottery Tickets: It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, give, or in any manner whatsoever furnish or transfer to or for any other person, any ticket understood to be or to represent any ticket, chance, share or interest in any property or thing involved, in any enterprise mentioned in the preceding subsection or depending upon the event of any such scheme, lottery or enterprise. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to aid or assist either by printing, writing, advertising, publishing or otherwise, in setting up, managing or drawing any lottery or scheme, or in selling or disposing of any ticket, chance or share therein, or for any person to let or permit to be used any building or premises for any of said purposes. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to urinate or stool in any place open to the public view, or to be guilty of any lewd, lascivious or obscene conduct or to sing any lewd or obscene song, ballad or other words in any public place or any other place where other persons are present or indecently to exhibit any animal. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful or any person to exhibit, pass, give, or deliver to another any obscene, lewd or indecent book, pamphlet, picture, card, print, paper, writing, mold, cast, or figure or to have same in his possession. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person, in any way or manner, to aid, abet, counsel, advise or encourage any other person in the commission of any of the acts mentioned herein or in any manner encourage the commission of such offense hereby defined. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to commit "petit theft" which is hereby defined as a larceny when the property taken is of a value not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200.00), or in the case of domestic fowls, fruits, or nuts, not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00). (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any male citizen over the age of eighteen (18) years to refuse, or neglect to render assistance to any police officer when called upon for such assistance, or aid in the suppression of riot, or other unlawful assemblage or in the arrest of any person who has committed an offense. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to pursue or advertise in any manner her location as a prostitute, or for any person to advertise the profession of a prostitute, or solicit for a prostitute. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or assist in the keeping of a house of ill fame or prostitution or knowingly to reside therein or knowingly to rent, lease or permit any person to occupy any house or room owned, leased or controlled by him for this purpose. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere wilfully with, resist, delay, obstruct, molest or threaten any officer of the city in the exercise of his or her official duties. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to fail or refuse immediately to disperse upon an order to do so by a police officer, when three (3) or more persons are assembled for the purpose of disturbing the peace, or for the purpose of committing any unlawful act. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person, who by color, or aid of any trick or sleight of hand performance, or by fraud or by fraudulent scheme, cards, dice or device, to win for himself, or for another, any money or property or a representative of either. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to take down any fence, or to let down any bars, or to open any gate in or on the property of another without the consent of the owner, occupant or person in charge thereof. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person without visible means of support and the physical ability to work not to seek employment or labor, or to refuse to work when employment is offered him; for any person to seek alms as a business; for any person to roam about from place to place without any lawful business; for any vile or dissolute person or associate of known thieves to wander about the streets at a late and unusual hour of the night, or to lodge in any other place than is kept for lodging purposes without the permission of the owner of the property or the person in possession thereof; or for any person to consort habitually with common prostitutes, habitual drunkards or any user of narcotics. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person to furnish, or attempt to furnish, or take into jail, or to deliver, or attempt to deliver to any prisoner therein confined, or in the custody of any officer, any weapon, tool, intoxicating liquors, drug or other article without the consent of the officer in charge. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

It shall be unlawful for any person, not a student of the school involved, to return to any school grounds, school buildings or streets, sidewalks, or public ways adjacent thereto, without lawful business therein, within a period of ninety (90) days if the person has been asked to leave the school grounds, school buildings or streets, sidewalks, or public ways adjacent thereto, by the chief administrative officer of said school, or by any certified school employee designated as the agent of the chief administrative officer or by any police officer for any of the following reasons:

(A) Misconduct on or about any of the above described premises; ("misconduct" is to be defined by local school regulations regarding conduct on campus, and/or by Penal Code section 415);

(B) Conviction of any offense requiring registration under section 290 of the Penal Code;

(C) Conviction of any offense included in division 10 or division 10.5 of the Health and Safety Code;

(D) Repeated and/or frequent loitering in or about the above described premises, without having lawful business at said premises. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)

No person, persons, or entity shall engage in the sale of any alcoholic beverage on any public park, public recreation area, or playground, public building, public street, sidewalk, or alley within the city. "Alcoholic beverage" shall include alcohol, spirits, liquor, wine, and beer. (Ord. 2001-8, 11-19-2001)