Chapter 9.05
OFFENSES RELATING TO PUBLIC ORDER AND SAFETY Revised 4/24
Sections:
9.05.010 Disturbing the peace, using offensive language.
9.05.050 Throwing of stones, missiles, etc.
9.05.060 Overnight camping prohibited.
9.05.080 Harassment. Revised 4/24
9.05.090 Procuring food or accommodation with intent to defraud. Revised 4/24
9.05.100 Reckless endangerment. Revised 4/24
9.05.110 Public interference. Revised 4/24
9.05.010 Disturbing the peace, using offensive language.
It shall be unlawful for any person to disturb or to tend to disturb the peace of others by violent, tumultuous, offensive or obstreperous conduct, or by loud or unusual noises, or by unseemly, profane, obscene or offensive language, calculated to provoke a breach of the peace; or by assaulting, striking or fighting another; or for any person to permit any such conduct in any house or upon any premises owned or possessed by him or under his management or control, when within his power to prevent, so that others in the vicinity are or may be disturbed thereby. [Ord. 204 § 1, 1972. Code 1999 § 11‑4-1].
9.05.020 Drinking in public.
(a) Drinking in the Streets. It shall be unlawful for any person to drink any malt, vinous or spirituous liquors upon any street, alley, sidewalk or other public place in the town of Granby, except when a valid special events permit pursuant to Section 12-48-101, et seq., C.R.S., has been issued for the particular location.
(b) Penalty. It shall be unlawful for any person to violate, disobey, omit, neglect, refuse or fail to comply with this chapter. The violation of this chapter shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $2,650. Every day any violation of this chapter continues shall constitute a separate offense. [Ord. 808 § 1, 2014; amended during 2011 recodification; Ord. 313 § 1, 1979. Code 1999 § 11-4-2].
9.05.030 Vagrancy.
It shall be unlawful for any person who is deemed a vagrant to remain in the town of Granby. The following persons shall be deemed vagrants in the town of Granby:
(a) Any person wandering abroad and occupying, lodging or sleeping in any vacant or unoccupied barn, garage, shed, shop or other building or structure, or in any automobile, truck, railroad car or other vehicle, without owning same or without permission of the owner or person entitled to the possession of the same, or sleeping in any vacant lot during the hours of darkness.
(b) Any person who asks or receives any compensation, gratuity or reward for practicing fortune telling, palmistry, or clairvoyance.
(c) Any person who shall be found trespassing in the nighttime upon the private premises of others. [Ord. 899 § 1, 2018. Code 1999 § 11-4-3].
9.05.040 Loitering.
(a) Definition. For the purpose of this section, the words “public way” and “place of public nature” shall mean any publicly owned property within the town of Granby, except the traveled portion of public streets, and shall include any park, sidewalk, curb, or any part of any public right-of-way devoted to any planting or park-like use.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any persons to be upon any public way or place of public nature in such manner as to interfere with the free and unobstructed use of such public way or place of public nature by any other person or persons; or to be profane, lewd or wanton in speech or behavior in such public way or place. [Code 1999 § 11-4-4].
9.05.050 Throwing of stones, missiles, etc.
No person shall throw or shoot any stone or other missile at or upon any person, animal, public or private property, building, structure, tree or shrub in the town of Granby. [Code 1999 § 11‑4‑5].
9.05.060 Overnight camping prohibited.
Both overnight camping, by tent or otherwise, and overnight parking of travel trailers, motor homes and recreational vehicles while occupied on any public property owned, dedicated to, leased to, or otherwise controlled by the town is hereby prohibited except where designated. The board of trustees, from time to time, may, by resolution duly adopted, designate public property to be used for such purposes. [Code 1999 § 11-5-4].
9.05.070 Trespass.
It shall be unlawful for any person, without legal privilege, to enter or to remain upon the premises of another or fail or refuse to remove himself or herself from said premises when requested to leave by the owner, occupant or person having lawful control thereof. [Ord. 977 § 1, 2022].
9.05.080 Harassment. Revised 4/24
A person commits harassment if, with intent to harass, annoy, or alarm another person, he or she:
(a) Strikes, shoves, kicks, or otherwise touches a person or subjects the person to physical contact; or
(b) In a public place directs obscene language or makes an obscene gesture to or at another person; or
(c) Follows a person in or about a public place; or
(d) Initiates communication with a person, anonymously or otherwise by telephone, or by the internet, or by a text message in a manner intended to threaten bodily injury or property damage, or make any comment, request, suggestion, or proposal by telephone, internet or text message which is obscene; or
(e) Makes a telephone call or causes a telephone to ring repeatedly, whether or not a conversation ensues, with no purpose of legitimate conversation; or
(f) Makes repeated communications at inconvenient hours that invade the privacy of another and interfere in the use and enjoyment of another’s home or private residence or other private property; or
(g) Repeatedly insults, taunts, or challenges another in a manner likely to provoke a violent or disorderly response. [Ord. 986 § 1 (Exh. A), 2023].
9.05.090 Procuring food or accommodation with intent to defraud. Revised 4/24
Any person who, with intent to defraud, procures food or accommodation in or from any public establishment without making payment therefor in accordance with his or her agreement with such public establishment is guilty of a municipal offense if the total amount due under such agreement is less than $250.00. [Ord. 986 § 1 (Exh. A), 2023].
9.05.100 Reckless endangerment. Revised 4/24
A person commits the offense of reckless endangerment when he recklessly engages in conduct which creates a substantial risk of serious bodily injury to another person. [Ord. 986 § 1 (Exh. A), 2023].
9.05.110 Public interference. Revised 4/24
(a) No person shall so conduct themselves at or in any public building owned, operated, or controlled by a public or governmental entity as to willfully deny to any public official, public employee, or invitee on such premises the lawful rights of such official, employee, or invitee to enter, to use the facilities of, or to leave any such public building.
(b) No person shall, at or in any such public building, willfully impede any public official or employee in the lawful performance of duties or activities through the use of restraint, abduction, coercion, or intimidation or by force and violence or threat thereof.
(c) No person shall willfully refuse or fail to leave any such public building upon being requested to do so by the chief administrative officer or his designee charged with maintaining order in such public building, if the person has committed, is committing, threatens to commit, or incites others to commit any act which did, or would if completed, disrupt, impair, interfere with, or obstruct the lawful missions, processes, procedures, or functions being carried on in the public building.
(d) No person shall, at any meeting or session conducted by any judicial, legislative, or administrative body or official at or in any public building, willfully impede, disrupt, or hinder the normal proceedings of such meeting or session by any act of intrusion into the chamber or other areas designated for the use of the body or official conducting the meeting or session or by any act designed to intimidate, coerce, or hinder any member of such body or official engaged in the performance of duties at such meeting or session.
(e) No person shall, by any act of intrusion into the chamber or other areas designated for the use of any executive body or official at or in any public building, willfully impede, disrupt, or hinder the normal proceedings of such body or official.
(f) The term “public building,” as used in this section, includes any premises being used or temporarily used by a public officer or employee in the discharge of their official duties.
(g) It shall be an affirmative defense that the person was exercising their right to lawful assembly and peaceful and orderly petition for the redress of grievances, including any labor dispute between the town and its employees, and contractor or subcontractor or any employee thereof. [Ord. 986 § 1 (Exh. A), 2023].