Lake Worth Beach |
Code of Ordinances |
Part II. CODE OF ORDINANCES |
Chapter 15. OFFENSES—MISCELLANEOUS |
Article I. IN GENERAL |
§ 15-8. Disorderly conduct.
A person is guilty of disorderly conduct and a violation of this Code if, with purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he:
(a)
Engages in fighting or threatening, or in violent or tumultuous behavior; or
(b)
Makes unreasonable noise or offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display, or addresses abusive language to any person present; or
(c)
Creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of the actor.
"Public" means affecting or likely to affect persons in a place to which the public or a substantial group has access; among the places included are streets, highways, transport facilities, schools, prisons, apartment houses, places of business or amusement, or any neighborhood.
(Code 1956, § 24-10.1)
State law reference
Breach of the peace and disorderly conduct, F.S. § 877.03.