Yuba County Municipal Code Ch. 8.40 Seditious or Obscene Language, Obstruction of Public Way, Picketing, Etc

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State Law reference— Disorderly conduct, Penal Code § 647.

It is unlawful for any person to utter, publish, or use any seditious language, words, remarks, or epithets, or to address to another, any such language, words, remarks or epithets, that are reasonably foreseeable to create or provoke, a breach of the peace.

(Prior Code, § 8.40.010; Ord. No. 230)

It is unlawful for any person to loiter, stand, or sit in or upon any public highway, alley, sidewalk or cross walk so as to in any manner hinder or obstruct the free passage therein or thereon of persons or vehicles passing or attempting to pass along the same, or so as to in any manner annoy or molest persons passing along the same.

(Prior Code, § 8.40.020; Ord. No. 230)

It is unlawful for any persons to loiter, stand, or sit in or at the entrance of, or approach to any church, hall, theatre, park, or place of public assemblage so as to in any manner obstruct said entrance or approach.

(Prior Code, § 8.40.030; Ord. No. 230)

It is unlawful for any person to beset or picket the premises of another, or any approach thereto, where any person is employed or seeking employment, lodges or resides, for the purpose of inducing such employee or person seeking employment, by means of compulsion, coercion, intimidation, threats, acts of violence, or fear, to quit his or her employment or to refrain from seeking or freely entering into employment.

(Prior Code, § 8.40.040; Ord. No. 230)

It is unlawful for any person to beset or picket the premises of another, or any approach thereto, for the purpose of inducing others, by means of compulsion, coercion, intimidation, threats, acts of violence, or fear, to refrain from entering such premises, or to refrain from patronizing, negotiating with or transacting business with the owner or occupant of such premises.

(Prior Code, § 8.40.050; Ord. No. 230)

It is unlawful for any person, in association or agreement with one or more persons, to assemble, congregate, or meet together in the vicinity of any premises where other persons are employed or seek employment, or upon the streets, highways, approaches or places adjacent thereto, for the purposes of inducing such employees or persons seeking employment by means of compulsion, coercion, intimidation, threats, acts of violence or fear, to quit his or her employment or to refrain from seeking or freely entering into employment.

(Prior Code, § 8.40.060; Ord. No. 230)

It is unlawful for any person, in association or agreement with one or more persons, to assemble, congregate or meet together in the vicinity of the premises of another, or upon the streets, highways or approaches thereto, for the purpose of inducing others, by means of compulsion, coercion, intimidation, threats, acts of violence or fear, to refrain from entering such premises, or to refrain from patronizing, negotiating with or transacting business with the owner or occupant of such premises.

(Prior Code, § 8.40.070; Ord. No. 230)

It is unlawful for any person to utter to, or within the hearing of, another, any derogatory, indecent, opprobrious epithets of language, or to make any loud or unusual noise, or to speak in a loud or unusual tone, or to cry out or proclaim, or to use any gestures for the purpose of inducing any person by means of compulsion, coercion, intimidation, threats, acts of violence, or fear, to quit his or her employment or to refrain from seeking or freely entering into employment or to refrain from patronizing, negotiating with, or transacting business with any other person.

(Prior Code, § 8.40.080; Ord. No. 230)

Any person violating any of the provisions of this Chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the County Jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding $1,000.00, or by both such imprisonment and fine.

(Prior Code, § 8.40.090; Ord. No. 230)

State Law reference— Penalties for ordinance violations, Government Code § 25132, Penal Code § 19.

Nothing herein contained shall be deemed or held to prohibit peaceable picketing, nor to prohibit labor from attempting to accomplish its aims in trade disputes by other peaceable means, including collective bargaining.

(Prior Code, § 8.40.100; Ord. No. 230)

If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, provision or portion of this Chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions or provisions of this Chapter or their applicability to distinguishable situations or circumstances. In enacting this Chapter, it is the desire of the Board of Supervisors to validly regulate to the full measure of its legal authority in the public interest, and to that end, the Board of Supervisors declares that it would have adopted this Chapter and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, provision, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases or portions thereof might be declared invalid or unconstitutional in whole or in part, as applied to any particular situation or circumstances, and to this end the provisions of this Chapter are intended to be severable.

State Law reference— Similar provisions, Government Code § 23.