Chap 711 Offenses Against Public Order

Question 1

711-1101

Disorderly Conduct

Answer 1

(1) With intent to cause physical inconvenience or alarm by a member or members of the public, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, the person:
(a) Engages in FIGHTING/THREATENING or in violent or tumultuous behavior;
(b) Makes UNREASONABLE NOISE;
(c) Subjects another person to offensively coarse behavior/abusive language which is likely to PROVOKE A VIOLENT RESPONSE;
(d) Creates a HAZARDOUS/physically OFFENSIVE CONDITION by any act which is not performed under any authorized license or permit; or
(e) Impedes or OBSTRUCTS, for the purpose of begging or soliciting alms, any person in any public place or in any place open to the public.

petty misdemeanor

Question 2

711-1102

Failure to Disperse

Answer 2

1) When SIX OR MORE persons are participating in a course of disorderly conduct likely to cause substantial harm or serious inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm

misdemeanor

Question 3

711-1103

Riot

Answer 3

1) participates with five or more other persons in a course of disorderly conduct:
(a) commit/facilitate the commission of a FELONY; or
(b) uses/intends to use a FIREARM/dangerous instrument in the course of the disorderly conduct.

class C felony

Question 4

711-1104

Unlawful Assembly

Answer 4

(a) assembles with five or more other persons with intent to engage in conduct constituting a riot; or
(b) Being present at an assembly that either has or develops a purpose to engage in conduct constituting a riot, the person remains there with intent to advance that purpose.

misdemeanor

Question 5

711-1105

Obstructing

Answer 5

K, R

 (a) Obstructs any highway or public passage; or
 (b) Provides less than thirty-six inches of space for passage on any paved public sidewalk.

petty misdemeanor after a warning by a law enforcement officer; otherwise it is a violation

Question 6

711-1106

Harassment

Answer 6

(1) With intent to harass, annoy, or alarm any other person, that person:
(a) Strikes, shoves, kicks, or otherwise touches another person in an offensive manner or subjects the other person to offensive physical contact;
(b) INSULTS/TAUNTS/CHALLENGES another person in a manner likely to PROVOKE an immediate violent response or that would cause the other person to reasonably believe that the actor intends to cause bodily injury to the recipient or another or damage to the property of the recipient or another;
(c) Repeatedly makes TELEPHONE CALLS, facsimile transmissions, or any form of electronic communication without purpose of legitimate communication;
(d) Repeatedly makes a communication anonymously or at an EXTREMELY INCONVENIENT HOUR;
(e) Repeatedly makes communications, after being advised that FURTHER COMMUNICATION IS UNWELCOME; or
(f) Makes a communication using OFFENSIVELY COARSE LANGUAGE that would cause the recipient to reasonably believe that the actor intends to cause bodily injury to the recipient or another or damage to the property of the recipient or another.

petty misdemeanor.

Question 7

711-1106.4

Aggravated Harassment by Stalking

Answer 7

Commits the offense of harassment by stalking and has been CONVICTED PREVIOUSLY of harassment by stalking WITHIN FIVE years of the instant offense.

class C felony

Question 8

711-1106.5

Harassment by Stalking

Answer 8

(1) With intent to harass/annoy/alarm, that person engages in a course of conduct involving pursuit, surveillance, or nonconsensual contact upon the other person on more than one occasion without legitimate purpose.

misdemeanor

Question 9

711-1106.6

Harassment by Impersonation

Answer 9

(1) Poses as another person, and makes or causes to be made, a transmission of any personal information of the person to another by any oral/written/electronic means, with the intent to harass/annoy/alarm any person.

misdemeanor

Question 10

711-1107

Desecration

Answer 10

I

desecrates:

 (a) Any public monument or structure;
 (b) A place of worship or burial; or
 (c) In a public place the national flag or any other object of veneration by a substantial segment of the public.

Shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not more than one year, a fine of not more than $10,000, or both

Question 11

711-1108

Abuse of a Corpse

Answer 11

A person treats a human corpse in a way that the person knows would outrage ordinary family sensibilities.

Misdemeanor

Question 12

711-1108.5

Cruelty to Animals in the 1st degree

Answer 12

I, K

 (a) Tortures/mutilates/poisons any PET animal or equine animal resulting in SBI /death of the pet/equine; or
 (b) Kills (attempts) any PET animal belonging to another person, without first obtaining legal authority or the consent of the pet's owner.

class C felony

Question 13

711-1109

Cruelty to Animals in the 2nd degree

Answer 13

I, K, R

 (a) Overdrives, overloads, tortures, torments, beats, causes SBI to, or starves any animal;
 (b) Deprives a pet animal of necessary sustenance or causes such deprivation;
 (c) Mutilates, poisons, or kills without need any animal; 
 (d) Keeps, uses, or in any way is connected with or interested in the management of, or receives money for the admission of any person to, any place kept or used for the purpose of FIGHTING or baiting any bull, bear, cock, or other animal, and includes every person who encourages, aids, or assists therein, or who permits or suffers any place to be so kept or used;
 (e) Carries, in or upon any VEHICLE, any animal in a cruel or inhumane manner;
 (f) Confines or causes to be confined, in a KENNEL or cage, any pet animal in a cruel or inhumane manner;
 (g) Tethers/fastens/ties/restrains a dog to a stationary object by means of a CHOKE/pinch/prong collar

misdemeanor, ten or more pet animals=class C felony

Question 14

711-1109.3

Cruelty to Animals by Fighting Dogs in the 1st degree

Answer 14

Knowingly:

     (i) Causes, sponsors, arranges, or holds a DOGFIGHT; or
    (ii) OWNS, trains, transports, possesses, sells, transfers, or equips any dog with the intent that the dog shall be engaged in a dogfight; or

Recklessly:

     (i) Allows a dogfight to OCCUR on any property; or
    (ii) kept, TRAINED on property.

class B felony

Question 15

711-1109.4

Causing Injury or Death to a Service Dog or Law Enforcement Animal

Answer 15

R

(a) causes SubBI or the death of any service dog or law enforcement animal while the service dog or law enforcement animal is in the discharge of its duties; or
(b) owner permits dog to attack a service dog or law enforcement animal resulting in the SubBI or death.

class C felony.

Question 16

711-1109.5

Intentional Interference with the use of a Service Dog or Law Enforcement Animal

Answer 16

I, K

strikes, beats, kicks, cuts, stabs, shoots, or administers any type of harmful substance or poison to a service dog or law enforcement animal while the service dog or law enforcement animal is in the discharge of its duties.

misdemeanor.

Question 17

711-1109.35

Cruelty to Animals by Fighting Dogs in the 2nd degree

Answer 17

K

 (a) WAGERS on a dogfight;
 (b) ATTENDS or pays to attend a dogfight; or
 (c) POSSESSES any device intended to enhance the dog's fighting ability

class C felony

Question 18

711-1109.37

Cruelty to Animals by Trapping

Answer 18

(1) intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly uses, sets, or maintains:
(a) A steel-jawed leg-hold trap; or
(b) A snare, conibear trap, or foot- or leg-hold trap in an area zoned as residential area

misdemeanor

Question 19

711-1110.9

Violation of Privacy in the 1st degree

Answer 19

(a) I or K, installs or uses, in any private place, any device for observing, recording, amplifying, or broadcasting another person in a stage of undress or sexual activity in that place; or
(b) K, discloses an image or video of another identifiable person either in the nude, with intent to harm substantially the depicted person with respect to that person’s health, safety, business, calling, career, financial condition, reputation, or personal relationships

class C felony.

Question 20

711-1111

Violation of Privacy in the 2nd degree

Answer 20

I

 (a) TRESPASSES on property for the purpose of subjecting anyone to eavesdropping or other surveillance in a private place;
 (b) Peers or PEEPS into a window or other opening of a dwelling or other structure adapted for sojourn or overnight accommodations for the purpose of spying on the occupant thereof or invading the privacy of another person with a lewd or unlawful purpose, under circumstances in which a reasonable person in the dwelling or other structure would not expect to be observed;
 (c) Trespasses on property for the SEXUAL GRATIFICATION of the actor;
 (d) Installs or uses, any means or device for observing, recording, amplifying, or broadcasting sounds or events in that place other than another person in a stage of undress or sexual activity;
 (e) Installs or uses outside a private place any device for hearing, recording, amplifying, or broadcasting sounds originating in that place which would not ordinarily be audible or comprehensible outside;
 (f) Covertly records or broadcasts an image of another person's intimate area underneath clothing, by use of any device, and that image is taken while that person is in a public place and without that person's consent;
 (g) INTERCEPTS, without the consent of the sender or receiver, a message or photographic image by telephone, telegraph, letter, electronic transmission, or other means of communicating privately; 
 (h) Divulges, without the consent of the sender or the receiver, the existence or contents of any message or photographic image by telephone, telegraph, letter, electronic transmission, or other means of communicating privately, if the accused knows that the message or photographic image was unlawfully intercepted or if the accused learned of the message or photographic image in the course of employment with an agency engaged in transmitting it; or
 (i) Knowingly possesses materials created under circumstances prohibited in section 711-1110.9.

misdemeanor

Question 21

711-1112

Interference with the Operator of a Public Transit Vehicle

Answer 21

(1) interferes with the operation of a public transit vehicle (OTS, SCHOOL BUS, TAXI) or lessens the ability of the operator to operate the public transit vehicle by:
(a) I, K, or R causing BI to the operator of the public transit vehicle; or
(b) Threatening, to cause BI to the operator of the public transit vehicle with the intent to terrorize, or in reckless disregard of the risk of terrorizing the operator of the public transit vehicle.

class C felony