Chapter 7.04 MISDEMEANORS

Each of the sections of this chapter shall be deemed to state a misdemeanor or misdemeanors, which, if severally or jointly committed by any person or persons, or corporation, within the corporate limits of the village, shall be punished in accordance with the current village penalty provisions. (Ord. 72-810 § 1, 1972: Ord. 76 Art. I § 1, 1930)

No person shall provoke a breach of the peace, or shall use any violent, threatening, profane or indecent language to the disturbance of any person or persons, or shall use any threatening, reproaching or abusive language to or concerning any person or persons, tending to provoke a breach of the peace. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 3, 1930)

No person shall be drunk, or shall be in a state of intoxication in any street, avenue or public place, or in any private house or place to the disturbance of any person or persons. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 4, 1930)

No person shall be guilty of disorderly conduct, or shall make, aid, countenance or assist in making any improper noise, riot, disturbance or breach of the peace. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 5, 1930)

No person shall be guilty of open lewdness, disorderly conduct, or act of public indecency, tending to debauch the public morals. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 6, 1930)

No person shall fire or discharge any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol or firearms of any kind or description, or fire, explode, or set off any firecrackers, or anything containing powder or other explosive substances within the limits of the village of Westchester. (Ord. 72-810 § 2, 1972: Ord. 76 Art. I § 7, 1930)

No person shall, by menace, profane swearing, vulgar language, or any disorderly or unusual conduct, interrupt or disturb assembly of people met for the worship of God. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 8, 1930)

No person shall wilfully interrupt or disturb any school, or other assembly of people, met for a lawful purpose. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 9, 1930)

No person, for the purpose of bathing or otherwise, shall appear in any public place in a state of nudity, or in a dress not belonging to his or her sex, or in any indecent and lewd dress, or make any indecent exposure of his or her person. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 10, 1930)

No person shall keep or maintain a house of ill-fame or assignation, or place for the practice of prostitution or lewdness. No person shall patronize or be an inmate of the same, nor let, own or be interested in any house, room or other premises for any such purpose, or shall keep a common, ill-governed, disorderly house to the encouragement of idleness, gaming, drinking, fornication or other misbehavior. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 12, 1930)

No person shall instigate, cause or procure, or in any manner assist in any indecent exhibition of any animal, or shall exhibit or perform any indecent, immoral, or lewd play or show, or representation of any kind. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 13, 1930)

No person shall overload, overwork, cruelly beat, ill treat, torture, mutilate, or cruelly kill any animal, or knowingly allow the same to be done. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 14, 1930)

No person shall instigate, cause or procure any dog fight, prize fight, cock fight, nor any public or private fighting. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 15, 1930)

No person shall negligently or wilfully injure, destroy, or deface any bridge crossings, sidewalks, lamp, lamppost or other property of the village. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 16, 1930)

No person shall vend, give away, or otherwise dispose of any lottery ticket, or conduct any lottery. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 17, 1930)

No person shall manage, use or practice any trick, sleight-of-hand game or device whatever with the intent of winning or procuring the property or money of another person, by inducing him or her to bet, loan or deposit, or stake money or property upon the result of such trick or game. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 18, 1930)

No person shall knowingly suffer or permit any dangerous, unruly, fierce or mischievous animal, being the owner or keeper thereof, to run at large, to the danger, annoyance or damage of any other person. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 19, 1930)

No person shall at any place in the village, fly kites, throw stones or other hard substances, play ball, or engage in any sport or exercise likely to injure persons or property, or obstruct traffic or otherwise interfere with the business of other persons. (Ord. 72-810 § 4, 1972: Ord. 76 Art. I § 20, 1930)

No person shall allow any dead animal, being the owner or keeper thereof, to remain within the corporate limits of the village. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 21, 1930)

No person shall write, print or paint with chalk, ink, paint, or other material, any obscene words, language or expression, upon any building, tenement, fence, wall or other place, or draw, or paint on the same any picture or representation of anything of an immodest or vulgar character. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 22, 1930)

No person shall, with other persons, congregate about or upon any stairway, doorway, window, or in front of any business or dwelling house, theater, lecture room, church, or elsewhere, and by so doing obstruct or interfere with the free passage of persons entering or occupying any such buildings or premises, or by his or her language, conversation or conduct, annoy, insult or disturb persons passing along the streets or alleys, or occupying, residing or doing business in any of said houses or places. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 23, 1930)

No person shall, in the village, keep dog, whelp, bitch, or other animal shut up or tied up in any yard, house or other place which, by barking, howling, or by other noises, shall disturb the peace and quiet of any family, individual or neighborhood. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 24, 1930)

No person shall place or cause to be deposited on any street, avenue, alley, sidewalk or public grounds of the village, any manure, filth or any substance emitting an unwholesome or offensive smell, or any trash, old iron, brickbats, ashes, chunks of wood, old tin or tinware, old boots or shoes, wood, brush, straw, paper, tin cans, or other rubbish. (Ord. 50-315 § 1, 1950: Ord. 76 Art. I § 25, 1930)

No person shall wilfully make a false alarm of fire by outcry, or by using any bell or other sounding instrument; nor shall any person make any false alarm of any kind calculated to disturb the peace of the village. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 26, 1930)

No person shall aid, abet or encourage the rescue or escape from prison of any person legally committed thereto, or shall supply, or attempt to supply, any such person with any weapon or intoxicating liquors, or with any implement or means of escape while in prison or in the legal custody of any officer of the village. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 27, 1930)

No person shall wilfully and maliciously tear down, mutilate and deface, or render illegible any notice, handbill or poster lawfully posted upon any street, avenue, alley or other place in the village. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 28, 1930)

No person shall falsely represent himself to be an officer of the village, or shall, without being duly authorized, exercise, or attempt to exercise any of the duties, functions or powers of a village officer; or shall hinder, obstruct, resist or otherwise interfere with any village officer in the discharge of his official duties, or attempt to rescue from such officer any person in his custody. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 29, 1930)

No person shall refuse to aid in the arrest of any offender when ordered to do so by a village police officer or any peace officer of the village. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 30, 1930)

No person, firm or corporation shall place or cause to be placed any box, post, sign, bicycle rack or any other article, that can or may obstruct walk in the village of Westchester, or obstruct the passage of vehicles upon any street, avenue or alley in the village, except by permission and license, issued by the president of the board. (Ord. 72-810 § 7, 1972: Ord. 76 Art. I § 33, 1930)

It is unlawful for mendicants or vagrants to frequent any store, street, alley, sidewalk, park or other place publicly frequented in the village. Any person found sleeping in any such place, and who has not any established domicile or residence, shall be considered to be a vagrant. (Ord. 72-810 § 8, 1972: Ord. 76 Art. I § 34, 1930)

It is unlawful for any minor to obtain any intoxicating liquors from the proprietor of any place of business within the village of Westchester, or his agent or employee, under the false pretense of being then of age. (Ord. 72-810 § 9, 1972: Ord. 76 Art. I § 35, 1930)

No minor shall climb, jump upon, or cling to, or in any way attach himself or herself to, any automobile, truck, bus, railway train, or vehicle of any kind, while the same is in motion. (Ord. 72-810 § 10, 1972: Ord. 76 Art. I § 36, 1930)

No person shall, by the use of firearms, bow and arrow, slingshot, blow or air gun, pelting with stones, or otherwise, kill or wound, or attempt to kill or wound, any squirrel or bird, within the village limits, or shoot an arrow or other missile, or throw a stone, club or other thing, at any such squirrel or bird, within any private grounds, public parks, squares or grounds (such squirrel or bird not being the property of the person so offending), or enter upon any private enclosure, or public ground belonging to the village, for the purpose of doing any act prohibited in this section. (Ord. 72-810 § 11, 1972: Ord. 76 Art. I § 37, 1930)

No person shall wilfully make or send in any call or alarm for the fire or police department unless there be sufficient and bona fide cause therefor. (Ord. 72-810 § 12, 1972: Ord. 76 Art. I § 38, 1930)

No person shall wilfully damage or break the electric or any other street lights in the village of Westchester. (Ord. 76 Art. I § 39, 1930)