Flagstaff, AZ Public Conduct: Loitering Rules (2026)

Flagstaff's general loitering law, City Code § 6-01-001-0002, works in two parts. Subsection A, Assembly in Public Ways, is a proclamation-triggered curfew: the Mayor can designate specific hours and areas in which it becomes unlawful for any person, or any group the Mayor names, to loiter, idle, wander, appear on, or congregate in or upon public streets, highways, roads, alleys, parks, playgrounds, public buildings, places of amusement, vacant lots or other unsupervised public places of the City. Subsection B, Unlawful Assembly, applies at all times without any proclamation: it is unlawful for two or more people to assemble for the purpose of disturbing the peace or committing an unlawful act and then to refuse to disperse when a police officer orders them to do so.

The section sits in Chapter 6-01, General Offenses, alongside the City's aggressive solicitation and graffiti provisions, and it has been on the books since 1967 with no dedicated penalty clause of its own, so a conviction falls back on the City Code's general penalty in Section 1-04-001-0001. The Flagstaff Police Department enforces both subsections; because the loitering half only takes effect once the Mayor formally designates hours and an area, it functions as an emergency or event-specific tool rather than a standing nightly curfew for adults.