Tigard, OR Public Conduct: Loitering Rules (2026)

Tigard Municipal Code § 7.32.010 defines disorderly conduct for the City of Tigard, Washington County, Oregon. The offense requires a state of mind: the person acts with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creates a risk of it. Two of the seven listed acts are the ones people mean by loitering. Subsection (a)(4) covers obstructing vehicular or pedestrian traffic on a public way. Subsection (a)(5) covers congregating with other persons in a public place and refusing to comply with a lawful order of the police to disperse, so the refusal is part of the offense.

The remaining acts are fighting or violent, tumultuous or threatening behavior, unreasonable noise, disturbing a lawful assembly without lawful authority, circulating a report known to be false about a fire, explosion, crime, catastrophe or other emergency, and creating a hazardous or physically offensive condition by an act the person is not licensed or privileged to do. Subsection (b) classifies disorderly conduct as a Class B misdemeanor. Objects left in the way are handled by a separate rule, § 10.32.200, which says no person shall place, park, deposit or leave on any street or other public way, sidewalk or curb any article, thing or material that prevents, interrupts or obstructs the free passage of pedestrian or vehicular traffic, or obstructs a driver's view of traffic-control signs and signals.

On city-owned land the rules of conduct in Chapter 7.58 apply. Under § 7.58.080(B) it is a violation to enter or remain on any city property for purposes other than legitimate business with the city or lawful use under the rules the city provides, and under § 7.58.090 a police officer can issue a written exclusion after giving a warning and a reasonable opportunity to desist, except for an exclusion issued for criminal conduct.