Porter County, IN Public Conduct: Loitering Rules (2026)

Sec. 14-44(a), part of Article III, Property Offenses, in Chapter 14, Public Peace, Morals and Welfare, and adopted by Ord. No. 010 of the former 1997 Code, targets one specific piece of county property: the public accessway that the Porter County Board of Commissioners maintains to Flint Lake at Burlington Beach. , no person, of any age, may remain or loiter on the beach area or any part of that accessway. The ordinance carves out a narrow exception for people actively engaged in launching or landing a boat, canoe, raft or other water vessel, recognizing that boaters sometimes need after-dark or pre-dawn access to the water.

Subsection (b) layers an additional, parent-specific duty onto the same hours, covered separately as the county's minor-curfew provision, but subsection (a) alone already reaches every person on the property regardless of age. 00. Chapter 14 also includes a companion property-offense section, Sec. 14-45, restricting swimming, walking and standing on the Shorewood Drive bridge over Lake Louise, which shows that Porter County's Article III property-offense rules are written site by site for specific county-controlled waterfront properties rather than as one general anti-loitering ordinance covering all public places in the county.