CODE OF ORDINANCES City of CLEARWATER, FLORIDA Codified through Ord. No. 6534-00, enacted May 4, 2000. (Supplement No. 24, Upd PART II CODE OF ORDINANCES Chapter 28 STREETS, SIDEWALKS, OTHER PUBLIC PLACES* ARTICLE I. IN GENERAL Sec. 28.09. Obstructing traffic on sidewalks.

It shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct any sidewalk by standing or congregating thereon for the purpose of obstructing the normal flow of traffic.(Code 1980, § 110.07) Cross reference(s)--Traffic and motor vehicles generally, ch. 30.

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(1) Disorderly conduct. It shall be unlawful for any person acting either alone or in concert with one or more persons to:

(a) Act in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another whereby any person is placed in fear of safety of life and limb;

(b) Engage in conduct whereby the property of another is placed in danger of being destroyed or damaged;

(c) Use fighting words directed toward another in any public place. Fighting words shall mean words which by their very utterance inflict injury tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace;

(d) Violently interfere with another person's pursuit of a lawful occupation; or (e) Engage in or solicit another to engage in lewd, lascivious, or dissolute conduct in any public place or in any place open to the public or exposed to public view.

(2) Obstruction of public places. It shall be unlawful for any person after first being warned by a law enforcement officer to willfully obstruct the free, convenient, and normal use of the Pinellas County Trail or of any public or quasipublic sidewalk, curb, bicycle path, walking area, mall or that portion of private property utilized for public use, so as to endanger the safe movement of pedestrians or vehicles thereon; and no person after being warned by a law enforcement officer shall willfully block or obstruct, or willfully prevent the free access to the entrance to any building open to the public.

(Code 1980, § 150.14; Ord. No. 6060-96, § 1, 8-1-96) Cross reference(s)--Parks, beaches and recreation generally, ch. 22;

streets, sidewalks and other public places generally, ch. 28; traffic and motor vehicles generally, ch. 30.

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(1) Basic to good community relations in the city is the God-given dignity and worth of humanity. Our heritage has provided the moral, ethical and spiritual foundation upon which civilization is built.

Moral and spiritual values intertwined with secular concerns, can unite the ability of all citizens to achieve the good life, based on universal justice and full opportunity. The city commission therefore affirms the necessity of good community relations between all groups in the city, in order to gain continuous growth in the development of a just, righteous and compassionate society. The city commission further affirms that in the city, with its population consisting of people of both sexes, married and unmarried, the physically and mentally impaired and people of every race, age, color, creed, national origin, and ancestry, as well as people of differing education, social and economic stations, there is no greater danger to health, morals, safety and welfare of the city and its inhabitants than the existence of groups prejudiced against one another and antagonistic to each other because of these differences. The city commission hereby finds and declares that acts of prejudice, intolerance, discrimination and disorder occasioned thereby threaten the rights and proper privileges of its inhabitants and menace the institutions and foundations of a free democratic state. A community relations board is found necessary and desirable to encourage and bring about mutual understanding; to assist the efforts of citizens and groups who are striving to eliminate prejudice, privation, intolerance, bigotry, discrimination and disorder occasioned thereby;

and to give effect to the guarantee of equal rights for all ensured by the constitution and the laws of Florida and of the United States of America.

(2) The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed to preserve the public safety, health and general welfare and to further the purposes stated in this section.

(Code 1980, § 99.01; Ord. No. 5200, § 2, 6-18-92; Ord. No. 6446-99, § 1, 9-16-99) |\__/,| (\ _.|o o |_ ) ) ---| ethercat |-------(((---(((----------(ascii art by Mike Rosulek)

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