Sec. 10-193. Harassment.
(a) A person commits harassment if, with intent to harass, annoy or alarm another person, he or she:
(1) Strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise touches a person or subjects a person to physical contact;
(2) In a public place directs obscene language or makes an obscene gesture to or at another person;
(3) Follows a person in or about a public place;
(4) Initiates communication with a person, anonymously or otherwise, by telephone, computer, computer network or computer system in a manner intended to harass or threaten bodily injury or property damage, or makes any comment, request, suggestion or proposal by telephone, computer, computer network or computer system that is obscene;
(5) Makes a telephone call or causes a telephone to ring repeatedly, whether or not a conversation ensues, with no purpose of legitimate conversation;
(6) Repeatedly insults, taunts or challenges another in a manner likely to provoke a violent or disorderly response; or
(7) Makes repeated communications at inconvenient hours that invade the privacy of another and interfere in the use and enjoyment of another’s home or private residence or other private property.
(b) As used in this Section unless the context otherwise requires, obscene means a patently offensive description of ultimate sexual acts or solicitation to commit ultimate sexual acts, whether or not said ultimate sexual acts are normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including masturbation, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus or excretory functions.
(c) Any act prohibited by Subsections (a)(4) and (a)(5) of this Section may be deemed to have occurred or to have been committed at the place at which the telephone call was either made or received. (Ord. 303 § 9-103, 1977; Ord. 379 § 1, 1994; Ord. 383 § 21, 1977; Ord. 1002 §§ 28, 29, 2009)