A person is guilty of loitering when:
(1) The person fails or refuses to move on when lawfully ordered to do so by any police officer; or
(2) The person stands, sits idling or loiters upon any pavement, sidewalk or crosswalk, or stands or sits in a group or congregates with others on any pavement, sidewalk, crosswalk or doorstep, in any street or way open to the public in this State so as to obstruct or hinder the free and convenient passage of persons walking, riding or driving over or along such pavement, walk, street or way, and fails to make way, remove or pass, after reasonable request from any person; or
(3) The person loiters or remains in or about a school building or grounds, not having reason or relationship involving custody of or responsibility for a pupil or any other specific or legitimate reason for being there, unless the person has written permission from the principal; or
(4) The person loiters, remains or wanders about in a public place for the purpose of begging; or
(5) The person loiters or remains in a public place for the purpose of engaging or soliciting another person to engage in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse; or
(6) The person loiters, congregates with others or prowls in a place at a time or in a manner not usual for law-abiding individuals under circumstances that warrant alarm for the safety of persons or property in the vicinity, especially in light of the crime rate in the relevant area. Unless flight by the accused or other circumstances make it impracticable, a peace officer shall, prior to any arrest for an offense under this paragraph, afford the accused an opportunity to dispel any alarm which would otherwise be warranted, by requesting identification and an explanation of the person's presence and conduct. No person shall be convicted of an offense under this paragraph if the peace officer did not comply with the preceding sentence, or if it appears that the explanation given by the accused was true and, if believed by the peace officer at the time, would have dispelled the alarm.
Loitering is a violation.
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.