16-11-39
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16-11-39.
(a)
A person commits the offense of disorderly conduct when such person commits any
of the following:
(1)
Acts in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another person whereby such person
is placed in reasonable fear of the safety of such person´s life, limb, or
health;
(2)
Acts in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another person whereby the
property of such person is placed in danger of being damaged or destroyed;
(3)
Without provocation, uses to or of another person in such other person´s
presence, opprobrious or abusive words which by their very utterance tend to
incite to an immediate breach of the peace, that is to say, words which as a
matter of common knowledge and under ordinary circumstances will, when used to
or of another person in such other person´s presence, naturally tend to
provoke violent resentment, that is, words commonly called 'fighting words';
or
(4)
Without provocation, uses obscene and vulgar or profane language in the presence
of or by telephone to a person under the age of 14 years which threatens an
immediate breach of the peace.
(b)
Any person who commits the offense of disorderly conduct shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
(c)
This Code section shall not be deemed or construed to affect or limit the powers
of counties or municipal corporations to adopt ordinances or resolutions
prohibiting disorderly conduct within their respective limits.