Signal Hill Municipal Code Ch. 9.04 Disorderly Conduct

"Capper" means a person who invites, solicits, decoys, or attempts or invite, solicit, or decoy, any other person to commit or participate in the commission, either as principal or accomplice, in any unlawful or immoral act.

(Prior code § 9.12.010 (Ord. 200 § 1, 1937))

It is unlawful for any person in the city to do the following:

A. Offensive Conduct. Use or engage in or be a party to offensive, disorderly, threatening, abusive, or insulting language, conduct or behavior;

B. Unlawful Congregation. Congregate with others on a public street and refuse to move on when ordered by the police;

C. Assembling Crowds. Cause a crowd to collect in any public place except when lawfully addressing such crowd;

D. Annoying Noise. Shout or make any unusual noise, or to cause or permit any unusual noise, either outside or inside a building, at any time, to the annoyance or disturbance of any person or persons;

E. Interference with Persons. Interfere with any person in any place by jostling against such person or unnecessarily crowding him or by placing a hand in the proximity of such person's pocket, pocketbook, or handbag;

F. Soliciting Lewdness. Loiter in or about any public toilet or restroom, or to solicit any person for the purpose of committing a crime against nature, or other lewd acts;

G. Insults and Annoyances. Make insulting remarks to any person; or to annoy or accost any person or persons unknown to him or her;

H. Cappers. 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.

(Ord. 2004-08-1335 § 1; Prior code § 9.12.030 (Ord. 200 § 2, 1937))

Every person keeping bees or hogs within the city limits, after notice from the council to remove the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Prior code § 9.12.020 (Ord. 14 § 3, 1924))

It is unlawful for any person within the city to utter or use within the hearing of one or more persons any profane, vulgar, or seditious language, words, or epithets, or to address another, or to utter in the presence of another, any words, language, or expression or seditious remarks, having a tendency to incite or create a breach of the peace.

(Prior code § 9.12.080 (Ord. 200 § 3, 1937))

It is unlawful for any person to exhibit publicly, or offer for public exhibition, or keep or place accessible to the public within the city any lewd, vulgar, obscene, or licentious picture or pictures, or to keep or maintain in any place accessible to the public any mechanical device rendering any lewd, vulgar, obscene, or licentious song, speech, jest, monologue, dialogue, or any reproduction of the human voice uttering immoral, obscene, lewd, vulgar, licentious, or profane words.

(Prior code § 9.12.090 (Ord. 200 § 4, 1937))

It is unlawful for any person engaged in, conducting or operating, either as owner, proprietor, operator, manager, lessee, agent or employee, any theater, arcade, entertainment or exhibition, or for any person whatsoever to give or cause or permit to be given, or to advertise or cause or permit to be advertised, or to participate in any obscene, indecent, immoral, or crime-depicting play, production, picture, show, entertainment or exhibition, or any delineation or illustration of any nude human figure, or any lewd, indecent or lascivious act, or any matter or thing of any obscene, indecent or immoral nature, or any boxing or prize fight exhibition when the same is in such manner or detail as tends to corrupt public morals.

(Prior code § 9.12.100 (Ord. 200 § 5, 1937))

A. At any time when it is brought to the attention of the chief of police or any police officer, that the provisions of Sections 9.04.040 through 9.04.060 are being violated, it shall be the duty of said officers, or any of them, to visit the place where it is reported that such violation exists and there to examine into the same; and should any of the officers, upon such examination, be of the opinion that such violation does exist, it shall be his duty to notify the person in charge of the exhibition, production, or representation in question that the objectional parts or features must be forthwith eliminated and no longer exhibited, produced, or represented.

B. Upon such notification, it shall be the duty of the person so notified immediately to comply therewith and then and there and at all times thereafter, except as provided in Section 9.04.080, to expunge and eliminate from such exhibition, production, or presentation, such objectional parts or features, or the whole thereof.

C. In the event that such notification is not complied with immediately, it shall be the duty of the chief of police or other police officer to forbid and prevent the further continuance of the exhibition, production, or representation in question until the notification shall be complied with, and the person so neglecting or refusing to comply with the notification, all persons participating in the production of such exhibition, production, or representation, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be immediately arrested by any police officer as for an offense committed in the immediate presence of the police officer, with or without a warrant.

(Prior code § 9.12.110 (Ord. 200 § 6, 1937))

Any person aggrieved by the action of the chief of police or other police officer under the provisions of Section 9.04.070, and who has complied with the notification provided, or on whose behalf such compliance was made, may appeal to the city council for review of the action. A hearing of such appeal may be set by the city council at the earliest convenient time and at such hearing evidence shall be adduced, and the decision of the council in such a matter shall be final. The council may from time to time prescribe rules of procedure to be observed in such hearings for the purpose of facilitating such reviews and the elimination of damage which may result to the appellant by the delay resulting from such action.

(Prior code § 9.12.120 (Ord. 200 § 7, 1937))

It is unlawful for any person to do the following:

A. Appear in any place open to public view, or on any street, sidewalk, alley, or in any motor vehicle in a drunken condition or state of intoxication;

B. Be on any private premises or in any private house or residence in a drunken condition or stage of intoxication to the annoyance of any other person;

C. Drink any malt, spirituous, or vinous liquor containing more than one-half of one percent of alcohol by volume upon any street, sidewalk, alley, parkway, or public grounds, within the city.

(Prior code § 9.12.130 (Ord. 200 § 8, 1937))

It is unlawful for any person who owns, operates, manages, or has under his control, any dancehall, restaurant, cocktail bar, beer or wine bar, or other establishment visited by the public to authorize, allow, or permit dancing on the premises thereof between the hours of two a.m. and six a.m. of any day. It is also unlawful for any person who is on the premises of any such place between said hours to engage or participate in any dance.

(Ord. 594 § 1, 1966: prior code § 9.12.124)

The penalty for the violation of any provision of this chapter shall be as prescribed in Chapter 1.16.

(Ord. 586 § D (part), 1966: prior code § 9.12.140 (Ord. 200 § 9, 1937))