A person is guilty of disorderly conduct when:
(1) The person intentionally causes public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to any other person, or creates a risk thereof by:
a. Engaging in fighting or in violent, tumultuous or threatening behavior; or
b. Making an unreasonable noise or an offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display, or addressing abusive language to any person present; or
c. Disturbing any lawful assembly or meeting of persons without lawful authority; or
d. Obstructing vehicular or pedestrian traffic; or
e. Congregating with other persons in a public place and refusing to comply with a lawful order of the police to disperse; or
f. Creating a hazardous or physically offensive condition which serves no legitimate purpose; or
g. Congregating with other persons in a public place while wearing masks, hoods or other garments rendering their faces unrecognizable, for the purpose of and in a manner likely to imminently subject any person to the deprivation of any rights, privileges or immunities secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States of America.
(2) The person engages with at least 1 other person in a course of disorderly conduct as defined in paragraph (1) of this section which is likely to cause substantial harm or serious inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, and refuses or knowingly fails to obey an order to disperse made by a peace officer to the participants.
Disorderly conduct is an unclassified misdemeanor.
Structure Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Subchapter VII. Offenses Against Public Health, Order and Decency
§ 1301. Disorderly conduct; unclassified misdemeanor.
§ 1303. Disorderly conduct; funeral or memorial service.
§ 1305. Desecration; class A misdemeanor.
§ 1306. Cross or religious symbol burning; class A misdemeanor.
§ 1307. Civil remedies for violations of hate crimes and related offenses.
§ 1308. Hate crime reporting requirement.
§ 1309. Deprivation of Civil Rights.
§ 1311. Harassment; class A misdemeanor.
§ 1312. Stalking; class G felony, class F felony, class C felony.
§ 1313. Malicious interference with emergency communications; class B misdemeanor.
§ 1315. Public intoxication; unclassified misdemeanor; violation.
§ 1316. Registration of out-of-state liquor agents; violation.
§ 1320. Loitering on property of a state-supported school, college or university; violation.
§ 1322. Criminal nuisance; unclassified misdemeanor.
§ 1323. Obstructing public passages; violation.
§ 1324. Obstructing ingress to or egress from public buildings; unclassified misdemeanor.
§ 1325. Cruelty to animals; class A misdemeanor; class F felony.
§ 1326. Animals; fighting and baiting prohibited; class E felony.
§ 1327. Maintaining a dangerous animal; class E felony; class F felony; class A misdemeanor.
§ 1330. Smoking on trolleys and buses.
§ 1332. Abusing a corpse; class A misdemeanor.
§ 1333. Trading in human remains and Associated Funerary Objects.
§ 1335. Violation of privacy; class A misdemeanor; class G felony.
§ 1337. Definitions relating to riot, disorderly conduct and related offenses.
§ 1338. Bombs, incendiary devices, Molotov cocktails and explosive devices; class D felony.
§ 1339. Adulteration; class G felony; class E felony; class A felony.
§ 1341. Lewdness; class B misdemeanor.
§ 1342. Prostitution; class B misdemeanor.
§ 1343. Patronizing a prostitute prohibited.
§ 1344. Prostitution and patronizing a prostitute; no defense.
§ 1345. Screening for sexually transmissible diseases.
§ 1351. Promoting prostitution in the third degree; class F felony.
§ 1352. Promoting prostitution in the second degree; class E felony.
§ 1353. Promoting prostitution in the first degree; class C felony.
§ 1354. Promoting prostitution; attempt to promote prostitution; corroboration.
§ 1355. Permitting prostitution; class B misdemeanor.
§ 1356. Definitions relating to prostitution.
§ 1361. Obscenity; acts constituting; class E felony or class G felony; subsequent violations.
§ 1363. Obscenity; presumption.
§ 1364. Definition of obscene.
§ 1365. Obscene literature harmful to minors; class A misdemeanor.
§ 1366. Outdoor motion picture theaters.
§ 1401. Advancing gambling in the second degree; class A misdemeanor.
§ 1402. Foreign lotteries; prima facie evidence; class A misdemeanor.
§ 1403. Advancing gambling in the first degree; class A misdemeanor.
§ 1404. Providing premises for gambling; class A misdemeanor; unclassified misdemeanor.
§ 1405. Possessing a gambling device; class A misdemeanor.
§ 1406. Being concerned in interest in keeping any gambling device; class A misdemeanor.
§ 1407. Engaging in a crap game; violation.
§ 1408. Merchandising plans are not gambling.
§ 1408A. Savings promotion raffle not gambling.
§ 1409. Exemption of law-enforcement officer.
§ 1411. Unlawfully disseminating gambling information; class A misdemeanor.
§ 1413. Exemption for operations of lottery under State control.
§ 1421. Obstructions; service of notice.
§ 1425. Findings of Court; order for removal.
§ 1426. Official removal upon noncompliance with removal order.
§ 1427. Collection of removal expenses; status of contractor; amount of lien.
§ 1428. Maintaining an obstruction; class A misdemeanor; a violation.
§ 1431. Telephone messages received or overheard by police as evidence.
§ 1432. Gambling; definitions.
§ 1441. License to carry concealed deadly weapons.
§ 1442. Carrying a concealed deadly weapon; class G felony; class D felony.
§ 1443. Carrying a concealed dangerous instrument; class A misdemeanor.
§ 1444. Possessing a destructive weapon; class E felony.
§ 1446. Unlawfully dealing with a switchblade knife; unclassified misdemeanor.
§ 1447. Possession of a deadly weapon during commission of a felony; class B felony.
§ 1447A. Possession of a firearm during commission of a felony; class B felony.
§ 1448A. Background checks for sales of firearms.
§ 1448B. Background checks for sales of firearms — Unlicensed persons.
§ 1448C. Civil procedures to relinquish firearms or ammunition.
§ 1449. Wearing body armor during commission of felony; class B felony.
§ 1450. Receiving a stolen firearm; class F felony.
§ 1451. Theft of a firearm; class F felony.
§ 1452. Unlawfully dealing with knuckles-combination knife; class B misdemeanor.
§ 1453. Unlawfully dealing with martial arts throwing star; class B misdemeanor.
§ 1454. Giving a firearm to person prohibited; class F felony.
§ 1455. Engaging in a firearms transaction on behalf of another; class E felony; class C felony.
§ 1456. Unsafe storage of a firearm; class A or B misdemeanor.
§ 1458. Removing a firearm from the possession of a law-enforcement officer; class C felony.
§ 1459. Possession of a weapon with a removed, obliterated or altered serial number.
§ 1459A. Possession of an unfinished firearm frame or receiver with no serial number.
§ 1460. Possession of firearm while under the influence.
§ 1461. Report of loss, theft of firearm.
§ 1462. Covert or undetectable firearms; class E or D felony.
§ 1463. Untraceable firearms; class E or D felony.
§ 1465. Definitions related to assault weapons.
§ 1467. Voluntary certificate of possession.
§ 1468. Definitions related to large-capacity magazines.
§ 1469A. Possession of a large-capacity magazine during the commission of a felony; class B felony.