NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 575

HOUSE BILL 804

 

 

AN ACT CREATING THE OFFENSE OF DISTURBING THE PEACE IN GUILFORD COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. It shall be unlawful in Guilford County to disturb the peace and if any person shall be found guilty of disturbing the peace, he shall, upon conviction, be punished as provided in this Section.

Sec. 2. Disturbing the peace is doing any of the following in such a manner as would foreseeably disturb or alarm the public:

(a)       engaging in a fistic encounter; or

(b)       using any unnecessarily loud, offensive, or insulting language; or

(c)       appearing in an intoxicated condition; or

(d)       engaging in any act in a violent and tumultuous manner by any three or more persons; or

(e)       holding of an unlawful assembly; or

(f)        commission of any other act in such a manner as to unreasonably disturb or alarm the public.

Sec. 3. Upon conviction, for the first offense, punishment shall be a fine of not more than fifty dollars ($50.00), or imprisonment for not more than 30 days; for the second offense within a period of 12 months, by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or imprisonment of not more than 60 days; and for the third offense within any 12 months' period, such offense is declared a misdemeanor and is punishable as a misdemeanor within the discretion of the court.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1967.