Ordinance Number 2000 - 848

An ordinance to create regulations for the control of certain parties and other social gatherings that tend to create neighbor-hood problems.

Section 1. A new Sec. 13-3017 of the Raleigh City Code is hereby enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 13-3017. Nuisance Party.

1. Definition. A nuisance party is a party or other social gathering conducted in the city and which, by reason of the conduct of those persons in attendance, results in any one or more of the following conditions or occurrences: public drinking or drunkenness; public urination or defecation; the unlawful sale, furnishing, or consumption of alcoholic beverages; the unlawful deposit of trash or litter on public or private property; the destruction of public or private property; the generation of pedestrian or vehicular traffic which obstructs the free flow of residential traffic or interferes with the ability to provide emergency services; excessive, unnecessary or unusual loud noise which disturbs the repose of the neighborhood; public disturbances, brawls, fights, quarrels, or any other activity resulting in conditions that annoy, injure or endanger the safety, health, comfort or repose of the neighboring residents, or results in any obscene conduct, or results in any immoral exhibition or indecent exposure by persons at the gathering.
   
2. Any person being the owner, occupant, tenant or otherwise having any possessory control of any degree of any premises who either sponsors, conducts, hosts, invites, suffers, permits, or continues to allow a gathering to continue which is or becomes a nuisance as described in subsection (a) above is in violation of this section and may be punished by any of the criminal or civil enforcement penalties available to municipalities. Any person attending a nuisance party is also in violation of this section.
   
3. The Section shall not apply to a gathering held at location holding valid entertainment center permits or any other gathering authorized by this code.

Section 2. This ordinance is effective upon adoption.

ADOPTED: July 18, 2000
EFFECTIVE: July 18, 2000