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 Chapter 46. OFFENSES AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

§ 46-1. Disorderly conduct in public places.  

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  • (a)

    A person is guilty of disorderly conduct if, with the intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he:

    (1)

    In any street, highway, public building, or while in or on a public conveyance or public place engages in conduct having a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the person at whom, individually, such conduct is directed;

    (2)

    Willfully, or being intoxicated, whether willfully or not, and whether such intoxication results from self-administered alcohol or other drug of whatever nature, disrupts any meeting in this town of the governing body of any political subdivision of this Commonwealth or a division or agency thereof, or of any school, literary society or place of religious worship, if the disruption prevents or interferes with the orderly conduct of the meeting, or has a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the person at whom, individually, the disruption is directed; or

    (3)

    Willfully, or while intoxicated, whether willfully or not, and whether such intoxication results from self-administered alcohol or other drug of whatever nature, disrupts the operation of any school or any activity conducted or sponsored by any school, if the disruption prevents or interferes with the orderly conduct of the operation or activity, or has a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the person at whom, individually, the disruption is directed.

    However, the conduct prohibited under subsection (1), (2) or (3) of this subsection (a) shall not be deemed to include the utterance or display of any words or to include conduct otherwise made punishable under this chapter.

    (b)

    The person in charge of any building, place, conveyance, meeting, operation or activity may eject therefrom any person who violates any provision of this section, with the aid, if necessary, of any persons who may be called upon for such purpose.

    (c)

    A person violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor.

    (Code 1960, § 12-1)

    State Law reference— Preservation of peace, etc., Code of Virginia, § 15.1-137; disorderly conduct in public places, Code of Virginia, § 18.2-415.

(Code 1960, § 12-1)

State law reference

Preservation of peace, etc., Code of Virginia, § 15.1-137; disorderly conduct in public places, Code of Virginia, § 18.2-415.