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(a) A person commits disorderly conduct if he or she intentionally, knowingly or recklessly:

(1) Makes a coarse and obviously offensive utterance, gesture or display in a public place and the utterance, gesture or display tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace;

(2) Abuses or threatens a person in a public place in an obviously offensive manner;

(3) Makes unreasonable noise in a public place or near a private residence that he or she has no right to occupy;

(4) Fights with another in a public place except in an amateur or professional contest of athletic skill;

(5) Not being a peace officer, displays a deadly weapon in a public place except when engaged in lawful target practice or hunting; or

(6) Not being a peace officer, displays a deadly weapon, displays any article used or fashioned in a manner to cause a person to reasonably believe that the article is a deadly weapon or represents verbally or otherwise that he or she is armed with a deadly weapon in a public place in a manner calculated to alarm.

(b) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under Subsection (a)(2) of this Section that the actor had significant provocation for his or her abusive or threatening conduct. (Ord. 303 § 9-101, 1977; Ord. 383 § 19, 1977; Ord. 1002 §§ 28, 30, 2009; Ord. 1021 § 2, 2009)