Disorderly conduct--Misdemeanor.

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22-18-35. Disorderly conduct--Misdemeanor.

Any person who intentionally causes serious public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm to any other person, or creates a risk thereof by:

(1)Engaging in fighting or in violent or threatening behavior;

(2)Making unreasonable noise;

(3)Disturbing any lawful assembly or meeting of persons without lawful authority; or

(4)Obstructing vehicular or pedestrian traffic;

is guilty of disorderly conduct. Disorderly conduct is a Class 2 misdemeanor. However, if the defendant has been convicted of, or entered a plea of guilty to, three or more violations of this section, within the preceding ten years, the defendant is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor for any fourth or subsequent offense.

Source: SDC 1939, §§13.1401, 13.1409, 13.1421; SDCL §§22-13-2, 22-13-3; SL 1976, ch 158, §13-1; SL 1984, ch 164; SDCL §22-13-1; SL 2005, ch 120, §§130, 131; SL 2007, ch 142, §1.


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