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A. Interference with the conduct of public business in public buildings, facilities, or on public lands is:

1. Conduct at or in any public building, facility or on land owned, operated or controlled by the county, state or the City so as to intentionally deny to any public official, public employee, or any invitee on such premises, the lawful rights of such official, employee, or invitee to enter, to use, or to leave, any such public building, facility or land; or

2. intentionally impeding any public official or employee in the lawful performance of duties or activities through the use of restraint, abduction, coercion, or intimidation or by force and violence or threat thereof; or

3. intentionally refusing or failing to leave any such public building, facility or land upon being requested to do so by a law enforcement officer or the City Manager, or designee, charged with maintaining order in such public building, facility or land if such person is committing, threatens to commit, or incites others to commit, any act which did or would if completed, disrupt, impair, interfere with, or obstruct the lawful missions, processes, procedures, or functions being carried on in such public building, facility or land; or

4. intentionally impeding, disrupting or hindering the normal proceedings of any meeting or session conducted by any judicial or legislative body or official at any public building, facility or land by any act of intrusion into the chamber or other areas designated for the use of the body, or official conducting such meeting or session, or by any act designed to intimidate, coerce or hinder any member of such body, or any official engaged in the performance of duties at such meeting or session; or

5. intentionally impeding, disrupting or hindering, by any act of intrusion into the chamber or other areas designed for the use of any executive body or official, the normal proceedings of such body or official.

B. Interference with the conduct of public business in public buildings is a Class A Public Offense. (Ord. 14-63 § 15, 2014; Ord. 12-38 § 10, 2012; Ord. 04-38 § 3, 2004; Ord. 83-75 § 2, 1983.)