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1 <br />ORDINANCE NO. 290 <br />CITY OF ORONO <br />HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE III, CHAPTER 22, ARTICLE III, <br />SECTIONS 22-86 AND 22-99 OF THE CITY CODE CONCERNING <br />CONDUCT IN PARKS AND PUBLIC SWIMMING AREAS <br />THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORONO ORDAINS: <br />SECTION 1. Orono City Code Title III, Chapter 22, Article III, Section 22-86 is hereby <br />amended by adding the underlined language and deleting the strikethrough language to the <br />following definitions: <br />Obscenities means those slang words currently generally rejected for regular use in mixed <br />society, that are used to refer to genitals, female breasts, sexual conduct or excretory functions or <br />products and that either have no other meaning or in context are clearly used for their bodily, <br />sexual or excretory meaning. an expression that, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest <br />in sex and depicts or describes in a patently offensive manner sexual conduct and which, taken as <br />a whole, does not have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. <br />Threats occur when the speaker means to communicate a serious expression of an intent to <br />commit an act of unlawful violence to a particular individual or group of individuals. <br />Fighting words means an expression likely to provoke the average person to <br />retaliation, and thereby cause a breach of the peace. <br />SECTION 2. Orono City Code Title III, Chapter 22, Article III, Section 22-99 is hereby <br />amended by adding the underlined language and deleting the strikethrough language as follows: <br />Sec. 22-99. Nudity, sexual conduct, obscenities, threats, fighting words. <br />In a park or swimming beach, Nno person shall engage in nudity or sexual conduct, or <br />audibly express obscenities, in a park or swimming beach direct threats at a particular individual <br />or group of individuals, or utter fighting words likely to provoke an average person to retaliation <br />and thereby cause a breach of the peace. <br />SECTION 3. This ordinance shall become effective immediately upon its <br />passage and publication. <br />ADOPTED this 26 day of February, 2024 by the City Council of the City of <br />Orono, Minnesota. <br />CITY OF ORONO <br />27