Title 16, Chapter 11, Section 39
( 16-11-39)
(a) A person commits the offense of disorderly conduct when such
person commits any of the following: (1) Acts in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another person
whereby such person is placed in reasonable fear of the safety of
such person's life, limb, or health; (2) Acts in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another person
whereby the property of such person is placed in danger of being
damaged or destroyed; (3) Without provocation, uses to or of another person in such
other person's presence, opprobrious or abusive words which by
their very utterance tend to incite to an immediate breach of the
peace, that is to say, words which as a matter of common knowledge
and under ordinary circumstances will, when used to or of another
person in such other person's presence, naturally tend to provoke
violent resentment, that is, words commonly called "fighting
words"; or (4) Without provocation, uses obscene and vulgar or profane
language in the presence of or by telephone to a person under the
age of 14 years which threatens an immediate breach of the peace. (b) Any person who commits the offense of disorderly conduct shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor. (c) This Code section shall not be deemed or construed to affect or
limit the powers of counties or municipal corporations to adopt
ordinances or resolutions prohibiting disorderly conduct within
their respective limits. |