Westland, MI Public Conduct: Loitering Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Classification
- Misdemeanor
- Covers
- Illegal-business, vice loitering
- Also bans
- Jostling/crowding in public
- Amended
- Ord. No. 109-F-2-A, 1-6-14
Summary
Westland's disorderly-persons ordinance makes it a misdemeanor to loiter around illegal businesses, vice locations, or police and court buildings, or to jostle and crowd people unnecessarily in public.
(9)A person found loitering in a house of ill fame or prostitution or place where prostitution or lewdness is practiced, encouraged or allowed.(10)A person who knowingly loiters in or about a place where an illegal occupation or business is being conducted.(11)A person who loiters in or about a police station, police headquarters building, county jail, hospital, court building, or other public building or place for the purpose of soliciting employment of legal services or the services of sureties upon criminal recognizances.(12)A person who is found jostling or roughly crowding people unnecessarily in a public place.(13)A person who is engaged in fighting or fisticuffs in a public place which directly endangers the safety of another person or of property.(14)A person found urinating or defecating in any public place within the city, except within an appropriate toilet facility. (Code 1981, § 22-79; Ord. No. 109-F-3-A, § 1 2-17-98; Ord. No. 109-F-2-A, § 1, 1-6-14)
State Law reference— Disorderly persons, MCL 750.167; obscenity, MCL 750.343a et seq.; indecent exposure, MCL 750.355a.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 66).
Full Breakdown
Sec. 62-97 defines a list of disorderly-person offenses, several centered on loitering: knowingly loitering in or about a place conducting an illegal occupation or business, loitering in a house of prostitution or vice, and (in a clause not quoted here) loitering around a police station, jail, hospital, or courthouse to solicit legal business or bail-bond work. The same section separately bans jostling or roughly crowding people unnecessarily in a public place. Any of these acts is a misdemeanor. The provision derives from Code 1981, § 22-79, and was last amended by Ord. No. 109-F-2-A, § 1, adopted January 6, 2014.
Violations & Fines
Loitering near an illegal business or vice location, or jostling/crowding people unnecessarily in public: each a separate misdemeanor disorderly-persons offense under Sec. 62-97.
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