<div class="chunk-title">Sec 38-4. - Picketing regulations.</div>
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               (a)
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               Picketing may be conducted on public sidewalks, any county-controlled park, or other
               county-owned exterior areas normally used or reserved for pedestrian movement, including
               easements and rights-of-way, but shall not be conducted on the portion of the public
               roadway used primarily for vehicular traffic or within 25 feet of a vehicular street
               or highway intersection, or (i) when a property has been otherwise reserved for private
               use; (ii) on a median strip; or (iii) at a location directed, focused, or targeted
               at a particular private residence.
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               (b)
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               Picketing shall not disrupt, block, obstruct or interfere with pedestrian or vehicular
               traffic or the free passage of pedestrian or vehicular traffic into any driveway,
               pedestrian entrance, or other access to buildings, which abut the public sidewalks
               or rights-of-way.
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               (c)
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               Written or printed placards or signs, flags, or banners carried by individuals engaged
               in picketing shall be of such a size and/or carried on the sidewalks or in or upon
               county-owned areas, as to allow safe and unobstructed passage of pedestrian or vehicular
               traffic. A staff or pole on which a sign, flag, or banner may be carried shall be
               made of corrugated material, plastic, or wood, and shall not exceed 40 inches in length
               and shall not be made of metal or metal alloy. If made of wood, the staff or pole
               shall be no greater than three-fourths inch in diameter at any point. A staff or pole
               must be blunt at both ends.
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               (d)
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               If more than one picketer or more than one group of picketers desire to picket at
               the same time at or near the same location, law enforcement officers may, without
               regard to the purpose or content of the message, assign each group a place to picket
               in order to preserve the public peace. Members of a group shall not enter an area
               assigned to another group. Priority of location shall be based upon which picketer
               or group of picketers arrived first.
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               (e)
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               Spectators of pickets shall not gather, congregate or stand within 25 feet of an intersection
               of a street or highway with another street or highway or in any manner physically
               interfere with individuals engaged in picketing. Picketers and spectators of pickets
               shall not speak fighting words or threats that would tend to provoke a reasonable
               person to a breach of the peace.
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               (f)
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               Picketers and picketing shall be subject to all applicable local, state and federal
               laws.
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               (g)
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               Nothing in this section prohibits a law enforcement officer from issuing a command
               to disperse in accordance with G.S. 14-288.5 in the event of a riot or disorderly
               conduct by an assemblage of three or more persons.
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               (Ord. of 1-7-2019(1); Ord. of 10-19-2020(1))
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