§ 42-11. Disorderly houses.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or maintain within the city a disorderly house. No person carrying on or conducting any business in the city shall permit or allow disorderly or riotous conduct on his premises, such as fighting, quarreling, gambling at any time, or excessive noise, or disturbances of a similar nature calculated or having the effect to interrupt or disturb the peace, tranquility or quiet of the surrounding residences or commercial establishments.

(b)

It shall be the duty of every hotel, tavern or inn keeper, or the owner or keeper of every billiard table, pool table, bowling alley or place of amusement or recreation, and every other person keeping a public house, to prevent the persons who may patronize their premises from disturbing, either in the day or nighttime, their neighbors by excessive noise, cries, carousals, songs or other noises calculated or having the effect to interrupt the tranquility, peace or quietude of the surrounding residences or commercial establishments.

(Code 1961, §§ 15-32, 15-33; Code 1985, § 13-15; Ord. No. 2017-2, § 1, 10-18-16)