Woodbury, MN Public Conduct: Loitering Rules (2026)

" Subsection (5) is the city's loitering and obstruction rule: it is unlawful to congregate with others on a public street or highway or other public place in a manner which obstructs access to or from any building or place, or free passage, and refuse to move or make way when ordered to do so by a law enforcement officer. The offense requires two elements: the group's presence must actually obstruct access or passage, and an officer must have given a dispersal order that was ignored; standing in a group alone is not itself a violation.

Section 13-6 sits alongside five other disorderly conduct clauses covering brawling or fighting, disturbing a lawful assembly or the peace of a family or neighborhood, offensive or abusive language or boisterous conduct tending to arouse alarm, refusing to leave an unlawful assembly when a law enforcement officer so directs, and disorderly conduct on private premises such as rioting or drunkenness that disturbs the neighborhood. Woodbury separately regulates loitering inside and around licensed billiard and pool halls under § 11-213, which bars patrons from lingering in or outside such an establishment, including its parking lot, but that narrower rule governs pool-hall licensees rather than public streets generally. Woodbury adopted its disorderly conduct ordinance by Ord. No. 1761 in 2005, and the state disorderly conduct statute, Minn. 72, applies in parallel.