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i AN ORDINANCE AMENDING MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 9.21, PUBLIC NUISANCE; AND ADDING SECTION 9.23, PARTICIPATION IN NOISY PARTIES OR GATHERINGS The City Council of Orono ordains; Section 1. Section 9.21 of the Municipal Code as revised by Ordinance No. 51, Second Series on May 9, 1988, is hereby amended to read as follows; SECTION 9.21. PUBLIC NUISANCE. It is unlawful for any person to maintain a public nuisance by his act or failure to perform a legal duty, and for purposes of this section, a public nuisance shall be defined as any of the following; (1) Maintaining or permitting a condition which unreasonably annoys, injures, or endangers the safety, health, morals, comfort or repose of any considerable number of members of the public; or, (2) interfering with, obstructing or rendering dangerous for passage, any street, public right-of-way, or waters used by the public; or, (3) any other act or omission declared by law to be a public nuisance. Section 2. The Municipal Code c£ Orono is herely amended by adding Section 9.23, PARTICIPATION IN NOISY PARTIES OR GATHERINGS, to read as follows; SECTION 9.23. PARTICIPATION IN NOISY PARTIES OR GATHERINGS. A. No person shall congregate because of, or participate in, any party or gathering of people from which noire emanates of a sufficient volume or of such nature to distirb the peace, quiet, or repose of other persons. B. A police officer may order all persons present at such party or gathering other than the owners, residents or tenants of the building or place to immediately disperse. Any person who shall refuse Lo leave after being ordered to do so by a police officer shall be guilty of a violation of this ordinance. C. Any owner, tena’^t or resident of the building or place who has knowledge of the disturbance and fails to immediately abate said disturbance shall be guilty of a violation of this ordinance. A-Mii- i—