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Disorderly Conduct

 

 

 


  

 

Rock Hill Code

ARTICLE V. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER


DIVISION 1. GENERALLY


Sec. 20-131. Disorderly conduct.

It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in:

 

(1)     Riotous, tumultuous, violent or obstreperous conduct of any kind;

(2)     Fighting;

(3)     Offering violence to another; or

(4)     Disorderly public intoxication;

 

in any public place, or sufficiently near to any such place or to any residence or place of business as to disturb or annoy any other person. (Code 1981, § 21-95)

State law references: Public disorderly conduct, S.C. Code 1976, §§ 14-25-90, 16-17-530.


Sec. 20-132. Disturbing meetings or gatherings generally.

It shall be unlawful for anyone in any public building or entertainment to whistle, talk in a loud voice, or in any other way interrupt or disturb any performance or meeting of a public nature or in a public place. If any person shall be engaged in a violation of this section, the police shall order him to desist there from, and upon refusal or failure so to desist, the person so refusing shall be removed from the building or assembly and be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. (Code 1981, § 21-97)


Sec. 20-133. Disturbance of religious services.

It shall be unlawful for any person willfully or maliciously to disturb or interrupt any meeting, society, assembly or congregation convened for the purpose of religious worship, or to enter such meeting while in a state of intoxication, or to use or sell spirituous liquors or use blasphemous, profane or indecent language at or near the place of meeting. (Code 1981, § 21-98)


Sec. 20-134. Disturbance of schools; defacing school property.

It is unlawful for any person, at or near any schoolhouse or institution of learning in this city, to engage or attract by conversation, signals, signs, sounds, or loitering in the neighborhood during school hours, or in any other manner, the attention of any of the pupils or teachers of the schools or institutions, to the disturbance of the school or institution, or to the detriment of the discipline thereof, or at any time to mutilate or disfigure, by marking, writing, cutting or otherwise, the fences and buildings of such schools or institutions, or to post advertising matter of any kind whatsoever thereon. (Code 1981, § 21-99)


Sec. 20-135. Smoke bombs.

It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, possess or use smoke bombs of any sort within the city.

(Code 1981, § 21-100)


Sec. 20-136. Obstructing officer making arrest.

It shall be unlawful for any person to hinder, prevent or obstruct any officer or other person charged with the execution of any warrant or other process issued under the provisions of this Code and engaged in arresting any person for whose apprehension such warrant or other process may have been issued, or to hinder, prevent or obstruct any officer or other person lawfully engaged in making an arrest of any person under circumstances not requiring the issuance of a warrant for such arrest, or to rescue or to attempt to rescue such person from the custody of the officer or person lawfully assisting him as provided in this section, or to aid, abet or assist any person so arrested as provided in this section, directly or indirectly, to escape from the custody of the officer or person assisting him as provided in this section, or to harbor or conceal any person for whose arrest a warrant or other process shall have been issued, or whose arrest is lawfully sought without any such warrant, so as to prevent his discovery and arrest, after notice or knowledge of the fact of the issuing of such warrant or other process, or that such arrest is lawfully sought without any such warrant.

(Code 1981, § 21-101)


Sec. 20-137. Loitering about school, church, hospital or orphanage.

It is unlawful for any person to loiter or loaf about any college, school, hospital, orphanage or church within the corporate limits of the city. It is unlawful for any person not connected therewith, unless on legitimate business, to trespass upon any of the grounds of any such institution or continuously to ride any vehicle over the streets near any such institution. (Code 1981, § 21-102)


 


 

 
 


 
 
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