§ 22-101. Disorderly conduct.

(a)

Any person who shall do or engage in any of the following shall be guilty of disorderly conduct:

(1)

Any person who shall act in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another, whereby any person is placed in fear of safety of his life, limb or health;

(2)

Any person who shall act in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another, whereby property of any person is placed in danger of being destroyed or damaged;

(3)

Any person who shall endanger lawful pursuits of another by acts of violence, angry threats and abusive conduct;

(4)

Any person who shall cause, provoke or engage in any fight, brawl or riotous conduct so as to endanger the life, limb, health or property of another;

(5)

Any person who shall assemble or congregate with another or others for the purpose of causing, provoking or engaging in any fight or brawl;

(6)

Any person who shall be found jostling or roughly crowding or pushing any person in any public place;

(7)

Any person who shall collect in bodies or in crowds for unlawful purposes;

(8)

Any person who shall assemble or congregate with another or others, for the purpose of or with the intent to engage in gaming;

(9)

Any person who shall frequent any public place with intent to obtain money from another by an illegal and fraudulent scheme, trick, artifice or device;

(10)

Any person who assembles with another or others for the purpose of engaging in any fraudulent scheme, device or trick to obtain any valuable thing in any place or from any person in the town, or who shall aid or abet therein;

(11)

Any person who shall act in a dangerous manner toward others;

(12)

Any person who shall use "fighting words" directed towards any person who becomes outraged and thus creates a turmoil;

(13)

Any person who shall assemble or congregate with another or other person for the purpose of doing bodily harm to another;

(14)

Any person who shall, by acts of violence, interfere with another's pursuit of a lawful occupation;

(15)

Any person who shall congregate with another or others in or on any public ways so as to halt the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic and refuses to clear any public way when ordered to.

(16)

Any person who shall: (a) be found on any highway or at any public place or public gathering in a grossly intoxicated condition or otherwise conducting himself/herself in a disorderly or boisterous manner, and (b) use obscene or profane language on any highway or at any public place or gathering or in hearing distance of any schoolhouse and/or church.

(b)

For the purpose of this section, the term "public place" shall include all areas, buildings and other places open to or serving the general public, whether upon privately owned or publicly owned property.

(Code 1985, § 15-401; Ord. No. 16-09, 6-21-2016)

State law reference

Disorderly conduct generally, S.C. Code 1976, § 16-17-530.