2C:33-2.
Disorderly conduct
a. Improper
behavior. A person is guilty of a petty disorderly persons
offense, if with purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or
alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof he
(1) Engages in fighting or threatening, or in violent or
tumultuous behavior; or
(2) Creates a hazardous or physically dangerous condition by any
act which serves no legitimate purpose of the actor.
b. Offensive language. A person is guilty of a petty
disorderly persons offense if, in a public place, and with purpose
to offend the sensibilities of a hearer or in reckless disregard of
the probability of so doing, he addresses unreasonably loud and
offensively coarse or abusive language, given the circumstances of
the person present and the setting of the utterance, to any person
present.
"Public" means affecting or likely to affect persons in a
place to which the public or a substantial group has access; among
the places included are highways, transport facilities, schools,
prisons, apartment houses, places of business or amusement, or any
neighborhood.
L.1978, c. 95, s. 2C:33-2, eff. Sept. 1, 1979.
