11.06.050 Harassment.
A. A person commits the Class B municipal offense of harassment if, with intent to harass, annoy, or alarm another person, he or she:
1. Strikes, shoves, kicks, or otherwise touches a person or subjects him to physical contact; or
2. In a public place directs obscene language or makes an obscene gesture to or at another person; or
3. Follows a person in or about a public place; or
4. Initiates communication with a person, anonymously or otherwise by telephone, or by the Internet, or by a text message in a manner intended to harass or threaten bodily injury or property damage, or make any comment, request, suggestion, or proposal by telephone, Internet or text message which is obscene; or
5. Makes a telephone call or causes a telephone to ring repeatedly, whether or not a conversation ensues, with no purpose of legitimate conversation; or
6. Repeatedly insults, taunts, or challenges another in a manner likely to provoke a violent or disorderly response.
B. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Obscene” means a patently offensive description of ultimate sexual acts or solicitation to commit ultimate sexual acts, whether or not said ultimate sexual acts are normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including masturbation, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, or excretory functions.
2. “Annoy” means to irritate with a nettling or exasperating effect.
3. “Alarm” means to arouse to a sense of danger, to put on the alert, to strike with fear, to fill with anxiety as to threaten danger or harm.
C. Any act prohibited by subsections (A)(4) and (A)(5) of this section may be deemed to have occurred or to have been committed at the place at which the telephone call, Internet message or text message was either made or received. (Ord. 200 §1, 1982; Amended Ord. 472 §4, 2003; Amended Ord. 599 §1, 2009; Amended Ord. 713 §4, 2017)