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16 <br /> If pickets promoting different objectives, causes, actions or policies desire to use a sidewalk that is <br /> already used for picketing,the Chief of Police or the Chief's designated agents shall allot a number of <br /> pickets promoting each objective,to use such sidewalk, on an equitable basis, proportionate to the <br /> number of objectives being promoted. <br /> (d) <br /> Pickets shall be restricted to the use of the outermost half of the sidewalk or other public way nearest <br /> the street and shall not at any time nor in any way obstruct, interfere with, or block: persons entering or <br /> exiting from vehicles; persons crossing streets or otherwise using the public way;the entrance or exit to <br /> any building or access to property abutting the street or sidewalk; a driveway serving any building or <br /> abutting property; or pedestrian or vehicular traffic. <br /> (e) <br /> No person observing, engaging in, or assisting in picketing shall bring to or allow to remain in the <br /> immediate area of picketing any vicious animal. <br /> (f) <br /> It shall be unlawful for a group of ten or more persons to picket without filing a notice as required <br /> herein. <br /> (8) <br /> The provisions of§§12-1055 through 12-1057 are mandatory, and not merely directory, and failure to <br /> comply with the provisions of these sections is hereby declared to be unlawful and punishable as <br /> provided by law. <br /> (Code 1959, §15-35.1(d)—(i), (k)—(m); Ord. No. 2006-977, §2, 3-7-06; Ord. No. 2019-20, §1, 11-19-19) <br /> M Sec. 12-1058. - INTERFERENCE WITH PICKETS PROHIBITED; POLICE AUTHORITY TO DISPERSE CROWDS; <br /> FAILURE TO LEAVE WHEN ORDERED DECLARED OFFENSE. <br /> M (a) <br /> It shall be unlawful for any person to physically interfere with pickets in the use of the sidewalk or to <br /> address profane, indecent, abusive, or threatening language to or at those pickets which would tend to <br /> provoke the pickets or others to a breach of the peace. <br /> (b) <br /> The police officers of the City may, in the event of the assemblage of persons in such numbers as to tend <br /> to intimidate pickets pursuing their lawful objective through numbers alone or through use of <br /> inflammatory words, direct the dispersal of persons so assembled and may arrest any person who fails <br /> to absent himself from the place of such assemblage when so directed by the police. <br /> (c) <br /> Whenever the free passage of any street or sidewalk in the City shall be obstructed by a crowd, whether <br /> or not the crowd assembles as a result of or in connection with picketing,the persons composing such <br />