Scetion 106-81

Sec. 106-81. Disorderly conduct.

It shall be unlawful for any person within the corporate limits of the city to engage in any conduct described in the following subsections; provided, however, that no person shall be convicted of any of the following sections upon a showing that the predominant intent of such conduct was to exercise a constitutional right to:

(1)     Act in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another whereby any person is placed in fear of the safety of such person's life, limb or health;

(2)     Act in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another whereby the property of any person is placed in danger of being damaged or destroyed;

(3)     Cause, provoke or engage in any fight, brawl or riotous conduct so as to endanger the life, limb, health or property of another;

(4)     Assemble or congregate with another or others for the purpose of, or with the intent to, engage in gaming;

(5)     Be in or about any place, alone or with another or others, with the purpose of or intent to engage in any fraudulent scheme, trick or device to obtain any money or valuable thing; or to aid or abet any person or persons in doing so;

(6)     Be in or about any place where gaming or the illegal sale or possession of alcoholic beverages or narcotics or dangerous drugs is practiced, allowed or tolerated, for the purpose of or intent to engage in gaming or the purchase, use, possession or consumption of such illegal drugs, narcotics or alcoholic beverages;

a.     All fines paid and collected by the Atlanta Municipal and City Courts pursuant to conviction under this section shall be deposited into the Inmate Welfare Trust Fund Budget (FAC 3P02 494008 I21W02CL9999) to defray the cost of substance addiction treatment for sentenced defendants.

(7)     Direct fighting words toward another, that is, words which by their very nature tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace;

(8)     Interfere, by acts of physical obstruction, another's pursuit of a lawful occupation;

(9)     Congregate with another or others in or on any public way so as to halt the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic, and to fail to clear that public way after being ordered to do so by a city police officer or other lawful authority;

(10)     Stand or remain in or about any street, sidewalk, overpass or public way so as to impede the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic, and to fail to clear such street, sidewalk, overpass or public way after being ordered to do so by a police officer or other lawful authority;

(11)     Disrupt by actions which tend to incite a breach of the peace the undisturbed activities of any house of worship, hospital, surgi-center, or home for the elderly; or

(12)     Throw bottles, paper, cans, glass, sticks, stones, missiles or any other debris on public property.

(Code 1977, § 17-3001; Ord. No. 2000-53, § 1, 10-10-00)

State law references: Riot, O.C.G.A. § 16-11-30; affray, O.C.G.A. § 16-11-32; obscene, vulgar or profane language, O.C.G.A. § 16-11-39; obstructing public passages, O.C.G.A. § 16-11-43.