Chapter 9.04
GENERAL OFFENSES
Sections:
Article I. General Provisions
9.04.010 State law and definitions adopted.
9.04.020 Soliciting or confederating to violate ordinance.
9.04.030 Attempt to commit offenses.
9.04.040 Violations – Continuous.
Article II. Offenses Against Public Peace
9.04.070 Disorderly conduct at fires.
9.04.080 Urination or defecation in public places.
Article III. Miscellaneous Offenses
9.04.100 Offenses related to lodging.
Article IV. Violation – Penalty
Article I. General Provisions
9.04.010 State law and definitions adopted.
A. Violation of the provisions in ORS Chapters 161 through 167 inclusive, as now constituted, is an offense against the city.
B. The definitions contained in ORS Chapters 161 through 167 are adopted by reference and made a part of this title. Except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning, the general definitions and the definitions appearing in the definitional and other sections of particular articles of state law shall be applicable throughout this title. [Ord. 455-2007 § 1].
9.04.020 Soliciting or confederating to violate ordinance.
No person shall solicit, aid, abet, employ or engage another, or confederate with another, to violate a provision of this code. [Ord. 455-2007 § 2].
9.04.030 Attempt to commit offenses.
A person who shall attempt to commit any of the offenses mentioned in this title or any ordinance of the city, but who for any reason is prevented from consummating such act, shall be deemed guilty of an offense. [Ord. 455-2007 § 3].
9.04.040 Violations – Continuous.
Whenever in this title, or any ordinance of the city of Dundee, an act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense, or the doing of an act is required, or the failure to do an act is declared to be unlawful or an offense, each day a violation continues shall constitute a separate offense. [Ord. 455-2007 § 4].
9.04.050 Cost judgment.
Whenever a defendant shall have pleaded guilty, or shall have been found guilty of an offense punishable under the terms of an ordinance of the city, and shall be sentenced to pay a fine or to be imprisoned, or both, the municipal judge shall impose a cost judgment upon such convicted defendant in an amount as adopted by the judge in the cost of judgment schedule, which shall be in addition to the amount of any fine imposed, and shall be collectible in like manner as such fine is collected. [Ord. 455-2007 § 5].
Article II. Offenses Against Public Peace
9.04.060 Public intoxication.
No person shall create, while in a state of intoxication, any disturbance of the public in any public or private business or place. [Ord. 455-2007 § 6].
9.04.070 Disorderly conduct at fires.
A. It shall be unlawful for any person at or near a fire to obstruct or impede the fighting of the fire, interfere with fire department personnel or fire department apparatus, to behave in a disorderly manner, or refuse to observe promptly an order of a member of the fire or police department.
B. For purposes of this section, members of the fire department are endowed with the same powers of arrest as are conferred upon police officers for violations of city ordinances. [Ord. 455-2007 § 7].
9.04.080 Urination or defecation in public places.
No person shall, while in or in view of a public place or the public, perform an act of urination or defecation except in toilets provided for that purpose. [Ord. 455-2007 § 8].
Article III. Miscellaneous Offenses
9.04.090 Use of fireworks.
The following sections of the Oregon Fireworks Law, together with all acts and amendments applicable to cities which are now or hereafter enacted, are adopted by reference and made a part of this chapter: ORS 480.110, 480.120, 480.130, 480.140(1) and 480.150. [Ord. 455-2007 § 9].
9.04.100 Offenses related to lodging.
A. Lodging. No person shall lodge in a car, outbuilding or other place not intended for that purpose without permission of the owner or person entitled to the possession thereof.
B. Lodging Accommodations. No person shall write or cause to be written, or knowingly permit to be written, in any register in any hotel, lodging house, rooming house, or other place where transients are accommodated in the city, any other or different name or designation than the true name or designation of the person so registered, or the name or designation by which such person is generally known. [Ord. 455-2007 § 10].
Article IV. Violation – Penalty
9.04.110 Penalty.
Unless specifically provided otherwise, a violation of any provision of this title is punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000 or imprisonment not to exceed one year, or by both a fine and imprisonment; provided, however, if there is a violation of any provision identical to a state statute with a lesser penalty attaching, punishment shall be limited to the lesser penalty prescribed in the state statute. [Ord. 455-2007 § 11].