Title 24 MLBSA

Subchapter VI
OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER, HEALTH AND DECENCY

This Disorderly Conduct Ordinance represents the law pertaining to disorderly conduct on the lands of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. Prior Title 24 MLBSA Subchapter VI, § 1253 is hereby repealed and replaced in its entirety by this Ordinance.

Section 1253. Disorderly Conduct.

(A) Any person under the jurisdiction of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe who engages in any of the following behaviors within the jurisdictional boundaries of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, including on a MLBO school bus, knowing, or having reasonable grounds to know that it will, or will tend to, alarm, anger or disturb others or provoke an assault or breach of the peace, is guilty of disorderly conduct, which is a misdemeanor:

(1) Engages in brawling or fighting; or
(2) Disturbs a lawful meeting; or
(3) Engages in offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous, or noisy conduct or in offensive, obscene, or abusive language tending reasonably to arouse alarm, anger, or resentment in others; or
(4) Blocks vehicular or pedestrian traffic; or
(5) Prevents the free ingress or egress to public or private places; or
(6) Makes a false report or warning of a fire, impending explosion or other catastrophe in such a place that its occurrence would endanger human life; or
(7) Appears in a public or private place in an intoxicated and disorderly condition; or
(8) Creates a disturbance, while hosting or attending a party, so as to disrupt the peacefulness of the neighborhood or community through loud noises and/or fights or other obnoxious behavior; or
(9) Plays his/her music from any car, house or music player so as to create a disturbance to the neighbors or community members. Cultural music is exempt from the provisions of this chapter if such music is played during a powwow or other cultural gathering.

(B) Any person under the jurisdiction of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe who has knowledge or reasonable grounds to know that his/her behavior will alarm, anger or disturb others and evidence supports the fact that others are affected by such disturbance will be guilty of a civil misdemeanor and be subject to a fine in an amount not to exceed $500.00.
(C) The Tribal Police shall have authority, within the jurisdictional boundaries of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, to stop and investigate any disturbance upon a reasonable suspicion or upon the complaint of another person and request that such disturbance be immediately stopped. If the person or persons refuse to immediately stop the behavior creating the disturbance, he/she shall be subject to the maximum fine as stated in sub-section B. above.

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