Wyoming, MI Public Conduct: Loitering Rules (2026)

101(20), is the city's loitering-adjacent obstruction rule: it prohibits conducting oneself in any public street, park or place, or any place open to the public, in a manner that obstructs or prevents the free and uninterrupted passage of any person. The section is written broadly around the effect, blocking someone else's passage, rather than around a status like standing still or gathering, so it reaches loitering-type conduct (parking a body, group or belongings across a walkway, doorway or thoroughfare) whenever it stops others from moving freely through a public or publicly-open space.

It sits in Chapter 50, Division 1 of the general offenses chapter, alongside neighboring sections on trespass (§ 50-119), willful property damage (§ 50-121) and unauthorized vehicle use on private property (§ 50-122), all enforced the same way as general municipal ordinance violations under Chapter 50's penalty framework. Because the section predates the 2025 camping-ordinance amendment, it operates independently of § 50-118's sidewalk-camping and city-property curfew rules; an obstruction citation under § 50-120 does not require the camping/campsite conduct or definitions found in § 50-118. This is Wyoming, Michigan's own city ordinance, applicable inside Kent County city limits and separate from any Grand Rapids or Kent County obstruction rule.