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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="10-201" title_number="10" title_name="Crimes Against Public Health, Conduct, and Sensibilities" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disturbing the Peace, Disorderly Conduct, and Related Crimes">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>“Public conveyance” means a conveyance to which the public or a portion of the public has access to and a right to use for transportation.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Public conveyance” includes an airplane, vessel, bus, railway car, school vehicle, and subway car.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>“Public place” means a place to which the public or a portion of the public has access and a right to resort for business, dwelling, entertainment, or other lawful purpose.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Public place” includes:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>a restaurant, shop, shopping center, store, tavern, or other place of business;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>a public building;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>a public parking lot;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>a public street, sidewalk, or right-of-way;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>a public park or other public grounds;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="6">
          <text>the common areas of a building containing four or more separate dwelling units, including a corridor, elevator, lobby, and stairwell;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="7">
          <text>a hotel or motel;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="8">
          <text>a place used for public resort or amusement, including an amusement park, golf course, race track, sports arena, swimming pool, and theater;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="9">
          <text>an institution of elementary, secondary, or higher education;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="10">
          <text>a place of public worship;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="11">
          <text>a place or building used for entering or exiting a public conveyance, including an airport terminal, bus station, dock, railway station, subway station, and wharf; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="12">
          <text>the parking areas, sidewalks, and other grounds and structures that are part of a public place.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>For purposes of a prosecution under this section, a public conveyance or a public place need not be devoted solely to public use.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person may not willfully and without lawful purpose obstruct or hinder the free passage of another in a public place or on a public conveyance.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person may not willfully act in a disorderly manner that disturbs the public peace.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A person may not willfully fail to obey a reasonable and lawful order that a law enforcement officer makes to prevent a disturbance to the public peace.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A person who enters the land or premises of another, whether an owner or lessee, or a beach adjacent to residential riparian property, may not willfully:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>disturb the peace of persons on the land, premises, or beach by making an unreasonably loud noise; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>act in a disorderly manner.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>A person from any location may not, by making an unreasonably loud noise, willfully disturb the peace of another:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>on the other’s land or premises;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>in a public place; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>on a public conveyance.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>In Worcester County, a person may not build a bonfire or allow a bonfire to burn on a beach or other property between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 60 days or a fine not exceeding $500 or both.</text>
  </level>
</section>
