Warren, MI Public Conduct: Public Urination (2026)

Sec. ' The same section also covers public intoxication that endangers others or causes a disturbance, carrying open intoxicants in a container in public or in a vehicle in a public parking area, diverting traffic by gesture, indecent or obscene conduct in public, and unnecessarily jostling or crowding people, so public urination sits alongside those offenses as one specific way to become a disorderly person under city law. Subsection (b) sets a single penalty for every category listed in the section: prosecution as a misdemeanor, with a term of imprisonment not to exceed ninety days and/or a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars upon a finding of guilt.

Subsection (c) is a severability clause, preserving the rest of the section if a court strikes down any part of it. 167(1)(e), which the code cites as the underlying state law basis for treating this conduct as an offense. Because the ordinance applies wherever the act occurs outside a bathroom, it reaches parks, sidewalks, parking lots, and any other place the public can access, not just designated recreation areas.