Flint, MI Public Conduct: Public Urination (2026)
Key Facts
- Offense
- Disorderly person
- Covers
- Streets, sidewalks, public view
- Max fine
- $500
- Max jail
- 90 days
Summary
Flint makes it a disorderly-persons offense to urinate or defecate on a public street, sidewalk, or any place open to public view.
Urinates or defecates on any public street or sidewalk, or on the floor of that part of any building open to the public or any other place in view of the public not specifically designated for that purpose.
(10) Throws any object from any moving vehicle, or toward any person or moving vehicle if he knows or should know that damage to person or property, or alarm which may foreseeably produce damage to person or property is likely to result.
(11) Knowingly destroys, damages or defaces or removes any public property or other property not his own.
(12) Summons, without good reason therefor, by telephone or otherwise, the Police or Fire Department, any public or private ambulance, or any other service of any kind, to go to any address where the service call is not needed.
(13) Knowingly take possession of and rides or takes away any bicycle, without the express or implied permission of the owner.
(14) For the purposes of this section, PUBLIC PLACE means any street, alley, park, government-owned or government-controlled building, common hallway or public room of any dwelling greater than two (2) units, or any other place to which the public has lawful access, as well as any motor vehicle used to provide public transportation. Masculine pronouns in this section shall be construed to include both male and female persons.
(15) Intentionally makes or causes to be made any open exposure of the
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2016 Code: Local legislation current through Ordinance 3821, passed 3-1-2012).
Full Breakdown
Under the City of Flint's disorderly conduct ordinance, a person is disorderly if they urinate or defecate on any public street or sidewalk, on the floor of any part of a building open to the public, or in any other place in view of the public not specifically designated for that purpose. The prohibition sits alongside other public-order offenses in the same section, including public fighting, obstructing sidewalks, and indecent exposure.
Violations & Fines
No section-specific penalty is listed for § 31-12, so it falls under the Code's general penalty: a fine up to $500, up to 90 days in jail, or both, in the court's discretion (§ 1-7).
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