19750916 1975-45ORDINANCE NO. 1975-45~
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 14
OF THE FAIRFAX CITY CODE
TO PROVIDE FOR A NEW SECTION 14-7.1
IT IS HEREBY ORDAINED by the City Council of the City
of Fairfax, Virginia, that Chapter 14 of the Code of the
City of Fairfax be and the same hereby is amended to pro-
vide for a new section 14-7.1 which will read in its
entirety as follows:
"Sec. 14-7.1. Definitions.
"For the purposes of the preceding section, Section
14-7:
(a) Public Place shall mean any place to which the
general public has access and a right to resort for busi-
ness, entertainment, or other lawful purpose, but does
not necessarily mean a place devoted solely to the uses
of the public. It shall also include the front or imme-
diate area of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern, or
other place of business and also public grounds, areas,
or parks.
(b) Riot shall mean a public disturbance involving
(1) an act or acts of violence by one or more persons part
of an assemblage of three or more persons, which act or
acts shall constitute a clear and present danger of, or
shall result in, damage or injury to the property of any
other person or to the person of any other individual or
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(2) a threat or threats, where the performance of the
threatened act or acts of violence would constitute a
clear and present danger of, or would result in, damage
or injury to the property of any other person or to the
person of any other individual.
(c) Incite a riot shall mean, but is not limited
to, urging or instigating ~other persons to riot, but
shall not be deemed to mean the mere oral or written
(1) advocacy of ideas or (2) expression of belief, not
involving advocacy of any act or acts or violence or
assertion of the rightness of, or the ~ight to commit,
any such act or acts."
This ordinance shall become effective immediately
upon its adoption.
Introduced: September 2, 1975
Adopted: September 16, 1975
Attest:
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