§ 10-17. Obstructing passage to and from public building; sitting on walls, fences.

No person shall be or remain upon any sidewalk, doorway, stairs, public passageway or way to any church or public hall or office, or upon any steps, portico or other projection from any house or other building, to the disturbance or obstruction of any person lawfully entitled to pass, inhabit or resort thereto, and no person shall sit or be upon any wall, fence, railing, bank or doorsteps facing upon any street or public place, not being the occupant or owner thereof, without the consent of the owner or occupant of the premises, or after being requested by the owner or any occupant of the premises, or any constable or police officer to remove therefrom.

(Code 1971, § 9-18)

State law reference

Unlawful assembly, M.G.L.A. c. 269, § 1 et seq.