§ 15-8. Disorderly conduct.  


Latest version.
  • 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.